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Showing posts with label Universities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Universities. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

John Raine: Can universities recover their mojo in the AI age?

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  The Path of Cultural Re-Engineering  The 2020s have been a period of cultural change in academia throughout the Western world.  In countri...
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Friday, July 17, 2026

Nathan Smith: In Defence Of AI Cheating

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Good news everybody! Another piece of the tired 20th century may finally be on its deathbed. The university system is in terminal decline an...
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Friday, March 20, 2026

Dr James Allan: What’s So Great About Diversity?

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‘Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian universit...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Professor Kendall Clements, Dr Michael Johnston: The Irony Of Relativism

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When new evidence emerges, scientists update their theories, sometimes radically. Good scientists actively seek evidence that could disconfi...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Roger Partridge: The Open Mind and the Closed University

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Last month, Dame Anne Salmond issued a public challenge to the very idea of reason – the commitment to shared standards of inquiry that has...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Dr James Kierstead: Another high-ranking Victoria University of Wellington administrator doesn’t understand free speech

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A while back now, we opened Oko , the staff newsletter at the university where both of us still have adjunct positions. One of the featured ...
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Natasha Hamilton-Hart: Chumocracy in the universities?

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Do universities govern themselves as a group of chums? My colleague Robert MacCulloch recently called out the soft corruption of “ chumocrac...
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

David Farrar: Free speech problems.......

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Academics who argue there is no free speech problems, are like whites who argue there is no racism against blacks Radio NZ reports :
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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Ananish Chaudhuri: There is a free speech crisis at our universities

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A recent article in The Post by two University of Auckland academics makes three primary assertions. First, there is no free speech crisis ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Professor Ananish Chaudhuri: Trump’s war against Universities

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Universities push back Harvard university recently made news by refusing to bow down to the Trump administration’s demands in order to retai...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Julian Mann: Is Labour Bending to US Pressure on Free Speech?

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Labour’s General Election victory last July filled me with pessimism about the future of free speech in the UK. But has there been a change ...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

David Farrar: Government moves to strengthen free speech on campus

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Penny Simmonds announced : Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds and Associate Minister of Education David Seymour today ann...
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Monday, December 23, 2024

David Farrar: Grant Duncan on the change in universities

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Grant Duncan writes : What’s unusual lately, though, is to see university administrators taking public stands on contentious political event...
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Saturday, December 21, 2024

Joanne Nova: For years the CCP has been sending millions to US universities and NGOs to promote Green Energy

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If you have the feeling that our universities are working for the enemy, you might be right China is a developing nation, too poor to cut ca...
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John MacDonald: Free speech rules shouldn't stop at universities

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Here’s how I would sum up the Government’s changes to the free speech rules for universities. It wants more Posie Parkers and less posey pol...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

Dr Eric Crampton: Trump’s declaration of war on universities

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One week after the American election, Trump-advisor Elon Musk tweeted a 2023 video outlining Trump’s plans for higher education . Trump is ...
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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 19/12/24

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Waitangi dissidents are denied the chance to chuck mud (or t-shirts) at Luxon next year – but his February 7 plans stay secret Will he be th...
Friday, December 13, 2024

John Raine: A Trump Card for Science?

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Trump’s Election as a Reaction to Identity Politics The weeks following Donald Trump’s election win have seen numerous mainstream and bl...
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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Collin Bjork: Why universities must be wary of embracing AI-driven teaching tools....

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Clones in the classroom - why universities must be wary of embracing AI-driven teaching tools The university sector in New Zealand is at a ...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Dr James Kierstead: The open academy and its enemies

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A couple years before the outbreak of the Second World War, the philosopher Karl Popper moved across the world to take up a position at what...