Links

This page of links is designed to introduce you to a few of the informative or interesting sites that we frequent. If you want generic tertiary education lists, you can find  a list of all NZ tertiary education organisations at NZQA, and a list of government websites at the MOE.

Essential Blogs

  • Andrew Norton Classical liberal thought with an education focus from Australia
  • EDTalkNZ Blog by top thinker Stuart Middleton
  • Kiwiblog NZ’s top blog with strong political focus (right)
  • Red Alert Labour MPs’ blog
  • The Standard Prolific left-wing NZ political blog with a stable of bloggers
  • The Visible Hand in Economics NZ economics-focussed blog
  • Offsetting Behaviour Great example of how you can combine academia and blogging (warning: contains lots of economics)
  • SciBlogs Another good example of academia and blogging…in a group blogging environment

Education Sites of Interest from Offshore

The organisations below consistently produce quality work that reward close reading. They make education policy and practice better - when we think and act about their ideas.

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  • Richard Hamilton-Williams: Tinkering with funding on the basis of the age of students doesn’t have a very successful track re [...]
  • dean: I loved that you started to question my own motives. BTW. [...]
  • dean: Well, err, um i was actually trying to point out how potentially futile ascribing motive to somethin [...]
  • Dave Guerin: Dean, an organisation can argue as it wishes. Given the collection of stories and releases today, NZ [...]
  • dean: Sigh, really ... You question (am I right in saying negatively?) an organisation's motives on som [...]