Posts by Sacha
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Luck!
and there's a TEDx global site now, for fans
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No, but it cuts wood like a woodchuck would
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despite having stayed at my house several times since my buying the book, she has never inscribed it
That wine stain counts, right?
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Cooks and Stewards union, not Cook Islands
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A firm belief that the studio would never take filming to another location seems to have underpinned decisions and writing from some during the dispute.
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An email went out to previous PA Books buyers last week
There are disadvantages to cash transactions in bars, though I treasure the inscriptions..
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[Ryall] pissed me off too when he said this decision by the schools to boycott sending in their targets to the MOE was going to jeopardise the children's education.
Massey education academics say it's ill-tested standards that are likely to harm children.
Dr O'Neill suspected most boards and parents were becoming increasing concerned about the flaws and potential harm to students the standards could cause.
"If there had been a proper trial of the standards, none of these concerns need have arisen," he said. "Parents wouldn't allow their children to take an unproven drug or medical therapy. Why should they allow their children to be experimented on with education policy?"
Dr Clark said the standards were limited in their scope, not adequately measurable, and had not been sufficiently tested - meaning a high risk of failure.
"The Minister of Education, Anne Tolley, has said that 150,000 children fail to achieve, and that national standards are the means by which their achievement can be raised but how this will happen, remains unclear," Dr Clark said. "Merely documenting national standards will not lift pupil achievement. Specific causal mechanisms for increasing learning must be identified and to date, these are singularly lacking."
He said under-achievers risked being labelled as failures and being treated accordingly by parents, teachers and peers, placing them at a profound disadvantage.
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To me, that Pundit article does a good and even-handed job of addressing the bigger picture and the interactions of the main players. Worth a read. Comments not so novel.
If we'd really been New Zealand Inc. Sir Peter would have sat down and talked, perhaps with the government as facilitator; the MEAA wouldn't have issued an ultimatum; and perhaps most crucially, CEO John Key wouldn't played up the risk of losing the movies (which was always downplayed by the knowledgeable Hollywood media) and mused that the country would have to pay for the union's error of judgment.
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Geoff, I presume it's just that Tolley is elsewhere for a while
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Crikey