Posted by:
on 25, May, 2012
Tagged in:
vouchers ,
teachers ,
students ,
school choice ,
John Banks ,
education politics ,
charters ,
charter schools ,
Charter school working group ,
Catherine Isaac ,
ACT Party
Am just home from a Great Night Out!
I would have paid for such an entertaining evening.
We knew that it wouldn't be an ordinary debate when the "chair", Associate Prof. Peter O'Connor from Auckland Uni, nailed his anti-charters colours to the mast in the first few minutes. He later apologised that "the Minister of Education couldn't be here tonight; he had obligations in his Epsom electorate".
Posted by: blogger
on 09, Dec, 2009
Tagged in:
vouchers ,
Tomorrow's Schools ,
teachers ,
privatisation ,
private schools ,
power ,
politics ,
Performance pay ,
education spending ,
education ,
Don Brash ,
2025 taskforce
Don Brash is famous for two things
By ToilandTrouble
- His willingness to use race in order to advance his campaign for political power in 2005, and:
- His ability to survive for many weeks on a diet of corned beef and frozen peas.
He is also an economist and we know how many of them it takes to change a light bulb (none, the darkness will cause the light bulb to change itself). In sum he is overwhelmingly under-qualified to comment on educational matters. That doesn't matter though because economists are immune to intellectual humility, untroubled by their own ignorance and always ready to draw a crooked line from an unproved assumption to a forgone conclusion.
Posted by: blogger
on 30, Oct, 2009
By Winged Avenger
Q. when is a voucher not a voucher?
A. when it’s a bulk fund.
Q. when is a voucher also not a voucher?
A. when it means the removal of zoning.
Q. when is a voucher good for education?
A. so far, never…
So, what is a voucher?
“Vouchers” describes various systems that place school funding in the hands of students and families. The idea is that each student is entitled to access education up to a set value each year. This value is issued in the form of a voucher. The student takes the voucher to their chosen school and redeems it for their education.
Posted by: PPTAweb
on 24, Sep, 2009
Guarantee - limited time only – for a limited number of lucky applicants. Guaranteed that you can be part of an experiment that will provide you with a place in a tertiary institution that may or may not be of your choice, may or may not be in the area of training you thought you were interested in (but there are lots of hospitality and hairdressing options) and you may or may not have to turn up once selected for this opportunity.
Posted by: blogger
on 25, Mar, 2009
On top of the $30 million already given to private schools, the Government is providing a further $10,000,000 for scholarships. By the sound of it this is a return to the limited voucher scheme National introduced in 1995, the Targeted Individual Entitlement (TIE). The intention of the funding is to enable students who would otherwise not be able to afford private schools to do so.
And they would want to do this because? According to Associate Education Minister, Heather Roy, it would be because private schools "set a benchmark for quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness".
There is virtually no way of measuring the truth of this statement. While private schools continue to select their students from the well-heeled culturally-endowed middle class and the state schools they are being compared with have to take all comers, there's no contest.
