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Beaton on NCEA

For too long, New Zealand’s education system has been content to drift in a sea of mediocrity. Everyone has known for a long time that NCEA is broken. Thirteen years ago, when I finished high school, ...
The Government’s decision to introduce a lower excise rate for heated tobacco products (HTPs) has been widely framed as “giving tax breaks to tobacco companies”. It’s a provocative line – and ...
Hamas leaders could be forced to leave Gaza after Middle Eastern states united behind a new plan to end the 22-month-long war. Qatar and Turkey, two of the group’s main patrons, have thrown their ...
Cabinet has agreed to a series of important legislative changes to enable the transition of New Zealand’s 3.5 million light vehicles to paying for our roading network through electronic road user ...
The usual suspects have got upset over the "opening" of an FBI office in Wellington. I guess they think law enforcement agencies shouldn't communicate. But what is really funny is that we have ...
Audrey Young chatted to Mark Mitchell, and he revealed his various health challenges from past injuries. Lung damage from the 1990s when he woke a sleeping mother and son to get them out of a house an ...
The proposed changes to our national qualifications system: A semi-vacuum at Year 11. 4 out of 5 subjects to “pass” Year 12. 4 out of 5 subjects to pass Year 13. No clear guidance on University ...
The Green Party is demanding Māori names be reinstated to electorates in the capital. It has launched a petition after the Rongotai electorate became Wellington Bays in boundary changes announced last ...
I look at the four criteria under international law you need to recognise a state, and I wonder how the Government can or will answer questions about the criteria when it recognises Palestine.
NZ’s top security officials were all set to renew the terrorist designation of America’s “violently extreme right-wing populist” group the Proud Boys. But the chair changed his mind at the last minute ...
Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson and Verrall should be known in future as the Covid cowards. They made decisions that had devastating effects on the lives of many New Zealanders and they are refusing to ...
Days before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, five protesters broke into a British military base, intent on disabling aircraft that were set to be deployed in bombing missions. It was March 2003 ...