If it weren’t for good old chemistry, where would New Zealand be?
Listener: 24 January, 2009
A background to this column is ‘My (Almost) Chemical Career’ at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1541
Keywords: Education; Growth & Innovation;
I almost became a chemist. In the upper forms at Christchurch Boys’ High School I had an inspiring chemistry teacher, Alan Wooff. He not only treated [...]
In September 2008 (16-18) I attended a Wellcome Trust sponsored conference in York England on the value of science education. We were invited to submit comments. Below is mine.
Keywords: Education; Growth & Innovation;
Dear Conference Delegates,
You invited comments coming out of the conference. The following is a short one.
I was greatly troubled by some of [...]
I was invited to write about a favourite poem by students from Auckland Girls Grammar. It was to be part of a collection “Dear to Me” published in July 2007 by Random House, the royalties going to Amnesty International (New Zealand). I wrote two essays – to give the students a choice. They chose [...]
Keywords: Education; Governance; Growth & Innovation;
The judges of a singing contest, dissatisfied with the first diva, awarded the prize to the second without having heard her. The favouring of commercialisation in the late 1980s and early 1990s had a similar empirical base. We have now heard the second diva, and while she has some strengths, [...]
Letter to an expatriate: 2031
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Listener: 4 November, 2006
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Keywords: Education;
Dear Gerry,
You’ve asked me what’s happened to New Zealand universities since we graduated all those years ago in 2006. Actually, the critical issue was finally identified that [...]
I was invited to write about a favourite poem by students from Auckland Girls Grammar. It was to be part of a collection “Dear to Me” to be published in July 2007 by Random House, the royalties going to Amnesty International (New Zealand). I wrote two essays – to give the students a choice. [...]
Listener: 15 July, 2006.
Keywords: Education;
I thought the only really interesting manifesto policy in the 2005 election was National’s proposal to give parents more choice and schools more independence. National wants to relax rigid zoning restrictions, increase the number of places at integrated schools and restore the funding to independent schools to past levels so that [...]
This was prepared in May 2006 for a report on a Youth Labour Market Guarantee.
Keywords: Education; Growth & Innovation; Labour Studies;
Introduction.
This paper provides an environment in which any Youth Labour Market Guarantee package must function. It covers the Government Vision statement, the latest Department of Labour 2005 statement The Labour Market and Employment Strategy [...]
This note was prepared on request of a educationalist who is writing a history of some aspects of the school for its 125th anniversary in 2006
Keywords: Education;
The mid 1950s must have been a pivotal time for Christchurch Boys’ High School. A number of new high schools opened up in Christchurch – Aranui, Cashmere, Linwood, Riccarton, Shirley Boys’. The challenge was not the drawing off of students, for this was a time of the ‘bulge’, and the reputation of the school was such that it still attracted a high proportion of the best students. But new schools need teachers. CBHS lost a number of its better younger ones to senior positions in the new schools. Their promotion at CBHS had been blocked by the older generation, many of whom had been there for decades, perhaps after returning from the Second (or even First) World War. Those teachers, near retirement, were too often tired and bored, at best teaching solidly rather than inspiringly.
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