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Kerre Woodham: Is the Knowledge Economy is the biggest political bust of recent times?
In the wake of the changes to NCEA, you would have to ask whether the Knowledge Economy is the biggest political bust of recent times?
Back in 2001…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mike Roan: Meridian Energy CEO on the 10-year coal deal for Huntly Power Station
Big players in the energy space are putting forward a new 10-year deal they say will secure supply at Huntly Power Station.
Genesis, Mercury, Merid…
1 year, 3 months ago
Helen Clark: Former Prime Minister on the Knowledge Wave project, scrapping NCEA
The Government's proposing to entirely phase out NCEA within five years, saying New Zealand needs a schooling system that sets students up for succes…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kerre Woodham: The ward for people with nowhere to go shouldn't exist, but I can see why it does
I was struck by a story from Radio New Zealand.
North Shore Hospital, it has revealed, has an entire ward of people who are stuck in hospital, but …
1 year, 3 months ago
Erica Stanford: Minister for Education joins Kerre Woodham to discuss the scrapping of NCEA
The Government's intends to entirely phase out NCEA within five years.
The proposal would require students take English and Maths in Year 11 and sit …
1 year, 3 months ago
Andrew Dickens: What can we do to ease debt and the cost of living?
Household budgets remain under pressure from rising costs, a credit expert says.
Centrix’s latest credit indicator shows consumer arrears fell by 7,…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kerre Woodham: Will overusing emergency alerts create complacency?
Let's face it, civil defence coordinators are damned if they do, damned if they don't. Fail to give people sufficient warning of a natural disaster a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mark Mitchell: Civil Defence Minister on the use of emergency alerts after the Russia earthquake
The Civil Defence Minister is staunch on the need for mobile emergency alerts.
An alert sent at 6.30am warned people to stay away from water, beache…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kerre Woodham: Rising gang numbers aren't good but the charges are
Gang membership is on the rise, but if you believe Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Basham, an increase in numbers is not necessarily a bad thing. …
1 year, 3 months ago
Kerre Woodham: Yesterday was a day to forget for the Government
There is much that this coalition government is dealing with that is not of their own making – they are mopping up, cleaning up the mess. Then there …
1 year, 3 months ago