ACT Leader David Seymour talks academic freedom and the postponed Vic Uni debate.
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This is what is possible if you save money on bureaucracy l.
Govt boosts Pharmac funding by $1.7b as inaugural medicines summit begins - NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/go…
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David Seymour talks Vic Uni’s free speech debate, Pharmac funding - Auckland Uni’s Professor Grant Schofield weighs in on free speech at NZ’s universities and Ann de Liefde discusses this week’s property of the week
It's worth remembering as well that universities are required to uphold the speech rights of academics and students by the Education Act. This episode is just more evidence that NZ universities aren't currently doing what they're required to do and what we pay them to do
It's worth remembering as well that universities are required to uphold the speech rights of academics and students by the Education Act. This episode is just more evidence that NZ universities aren't currently doing what they're required to do and what we pay them to do
I might add that if vice-chancellors are not capable of fulfilling their obligations to academic freedom under the Education Act, perhaps they shouldn't be collecting a generous, taxpayer-supported salary for that role
I might add that if vice-chancellors are not capable of fulfilling their obligations to academic freedom under the Education Act, perhaps they shouldn't be collecting a generous, taxpayer-supported salary for that role
1. This response to the idea of right-of-centre people having a say at VUW is also further evidence that most academics and students now see universities as places for left-wing ideas, and not as public institutions concerned with politically-disinterested teaching and research
ACT MP Mark Cameron responds to cancellations and protests of ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington:
"How bloody lucky I am to live in rural New Zealand. Today's very well-attended dawn service in Dargaville was a perfect, dignified commemoration of the courage of the ANZACs.…
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