According to the Productivity Commission the current tertiary education system is blocking innovation. But in its recent report that promised to put forward New Models of Tertiary Education it delivered none. Its failure should not end the debate. There is an urgent need to bring about change
Read MoreInternational Rankings of New Zealand University Subjects (2017)
How do New Zealand’s university departments rank internationally?
Read MoreSome questions for the NZDF
Almost a week after the release of Hit & Run, we have more questions than answers from the Defence Force and the Government.
Read MoreWhich way is Bill English's moral compass pointing?
The Prime Minister has in recent times been prepared to shift some moral ground for political ease. Now he faces the greatest moral test of his short time in power in the face of calls for an inquiry into the O'Donnel raid
Read MoreBeing “criminally inadmissible” to Canada unless “rehabilitated”
My anti-apartheid protest convictions nearly kept me out of Canada. Luckily, I had friends in high places. What though of those many people in our world, especially those seeking refuge from war and oppression, who do not?
Read MoreKilling in the name of?
Nicky Hager and John Stephenson’s book, Hit & Run, presents compelling evidence that our SAS was responsible for killing at least six Afghani civilians, wounding at least another fifteen, and handing over a man to be tortured for information. And then we were systematically lied to about what was being done in our name.
Read MoreThe O'Donnell raid in Afghanistan: The seeds of the new Hager book
The 2010 raid in Afghanistan detailed in Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson's new book, Hit and Run, was first revealed on a TV interview I produced in 2011. It's time for some official answers
Read MoreTe Awa Tupua - ding an sich selbst
Jamie Whyte thinks it is "legislative lunacy" for Parliament to recognise the Whanganui River as being "a person". Once again, it appears Jamie Whyte doesn't really know much about that of which he speaks.
Read MoreIs the Government Expecting a Migration Boom?
A recent government report projects huge increases in employment but at least 72 percent of those jobs are to go to immigrants.
Read MoreShe's a hard road finding the perfect journalist, boy
...But that doesn't mean we don't try. An essay in defence of a word and its meaning, at a time when journalism is bruised and battered, but standing strong
Read MoreI'm surprised Hitler didn't round up the toupee people
Does a murderer really have the right to wear a hairpiece? Are we really living in such mad times? Or might things be a little more complex than that?
Read MoreBrave Bill's super pledge: But what about tax & health?
Touching the third rail of superannuation is a brave act by any government, but what about those other curly questions?
Read MoreWelcome to the new Pundits. All aboard!
A few things are changing around here... but all in a good way. Just check out our new pundits
Read MoreCommunities of Learning | Kāhui Ako - System-wide change in Education
A response from the Minister of Education to the recent contribution by Steve Maharey (Can we finally agree on how to run schools).
Read MoreIt may walk like social investment & quack like social investment, but it's not social investment
The current approach to social investment suggests we can use big data and new technology to better understand who will access public services and fix them. But this is not social investment
Read MoreHow the West was won
“I understand what the people’s priorities are,” the new ALP premier of West Australia, Mark McGowan, told reporters after winning government on Saturday with a 15 per cent swing, the largest swing to Labor in state election history
Read MoreLittle's dubious numbers, writ large: why no-one's sustainable on super
Welcome to the topsy-turvy world where no-one cares what Treasury says and only the only party that seems to give a toss about sustainability is... ACT
Read MoreDestabilising New Zealand Superannuation
Regrettably, the government’s recent announcements on the public provision for retirement have added to the uncertainty the young face.
Read MoreIs this a super solution from the old days?
What do you make of this way of doing it?
Read MoreThe true cost of National's not so super duper super policy
Bill English has made a brave call on super, but is it mere penance for years of bad calls, will New Zealanders face the facts and has he just started a new inter-generational war?
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