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John Raine,
NZ education system,
Treaty of Waitangi,
University education,
Waipapa Taumata Rau course
Exemptions to the Ruling
On October 15th 2025, the University of Auckland Council voted to make its compulsory Waipapa Taumata Rau (WTR) paper optional. Act Party MP, Parmjeet Parmar, said, “This is an enormous victory for student choice over ideology”, and “The compulsory nature of this course was always about pushing Treaty ideology onto students, with no regard for their interests.”
Labels:
Activism,
Penn Raine,
University education
When I was at university, student politics meant someone standing on a lunchtime soapbox stating where our troops should not be sent, mocking certain politicians, and being outraged at the price of a caff pie. Imagine my interest this week at seeing clips of pro-Palestinian US students chasing Jewish scholars from their own campus into the university library, where staff barricaded the doors to save them from injury.
This university, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is a private New York institution which was founded in 1859 by the philanthropist, Peter Cooper. I wonder what Cooper would have made of this kind of advanced mob thinking.
