Regulator’s pledge to boost university access in England ‘may discriminate based on class’ Last modified on Wed 29 Jan 2020 07.02 EST Leading private schools have challenged plans to widen access to the most selective universities in England, warning they could lead to discrimination against young people “on the basis of the class they were born into”. The intervention by […]
Read moreIt is back to school for thousands of children in Auckland and Waikato this week. But it is also crunch time for teachers who will have to decide whether or not they will get at least their first Covid jab – or face an uncertain future that may risk losing their job. Today is the day teachers nationwide will have […]
Read moreThere are 185 new Covid cases in the community today as the country nears the 90 per cent milestone for first jabs. An additional death in Auckland has today been added to the national Covid figures. “This person’s death is subject to a police investigation and the ministry will not be commenting further on it, at this stage,” the Ministry […]
Read moreRemembering the questions of his own childhood has helped Michael Rosen to tell pupils difficult truths Last modified on Thu 23 Jan 2020 06.16 EST As a very young child, the only inkling I had of the Holocaust was that every now and then my father would say that he’d had two uncles in France who were “there before the […]
Read moreChristian community Gloriavale will likely be forced to turn its back on its long-held anti-vaccine beliefs. A source close to the community has said it is understood they are considering asking the Government for an exemption for the vaccine mandate for its teachers. They say if the community fails to vaccinate its teaching staff – it runs the risk of […]
Read moreThe employers of key healthcare workers can now make a bid for them to be exempt from Covid-19 vaccine mandates under new rules issued by the Ministry of Health. It comes as the “no jab, no job” public health order, which will require health, education and prison workers to be vaccinated, has been published. The order – which will come […]
Read moreCOVID LATEST:* Auckland supermarket among latest Covid locations of interest* Financial stress: ‘People are at their breaking point’ – govt-funded service* Sir Ian Taylor: How to end the MIQ lottery for most returning Kiwis* Auckland principals consider options as exam fears loom for students Auckland is a long way from a return to level 4 lockdown – and 100 cases […]
Read moreJoyce Lebra, feminist trailblazer, renowned scholar and the University of Colorado Boulder’s first female history professor, died Oct. 10 in Boulder. She was 95. Lebra’s closest friends and chosen family describe her as a formidable, wise and warm woman whose heart was split between her love of Asia and America, the ocean and Colorado’s mountains. Born in Minnesota and raised […]
Read moreTwo Covid cases refusing to divulge where they travelled in Northland does not warrant the “compelling public health reasons” needed to waive their privacy rights, the Ministry of Health says. The question was put to the ministry after frustrated readers contacted the Advocate to state how unfair it seemed for the two women to stay anonymous while a second pair […]
Read moreThere are 27 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases in New Zealand today, 22 of which have been linked to known clusters. All of today’s cases are in Auckland, the Ministry of Health said in a statement this afternoon. This brings the total of unlinked cases in the past fortnight to 10. There are 22 Covid patients in hospital, including three […]
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