funding Archive

  • David Clendon

    Govt understanding of the Tertiary sector: FAIL



    Oh dear. Anyone who felt a wee bit nervous when Steven Joyce became Tertiary Education Minister has a right to feel justified in their fears after his last couple of annoucements. First, we hear there are plans to link funding for tertiary institutions to the pass rates of their students from 2012. This is a terrible [...] read more
    March 10, 2010 3:19 pm - 26 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Per Capita Funding Benefits Wealthier Schools



    The additional funding for sports in secondary and primary schools sounds great but the devil is in the detail. Up til now the  funding under the Sportfit programme ($5.3 million) was targeted so that lower decile schools got more support. The new money which is $6 million to secondary schools and $6 million to primary [...] read more
    August 17, 2009 3:46 pm - 94 Comments
  • frog

    Accountancy and accountability



    Did everyone enjoy the brief interlude in the election campaign where we got to talk about issues other than Winston Peters and his unusual accountancy systems?  (Maybe Jim Bolger was on to something when he made him treasurer, given his ability to run a party on no declared donations.) Interestingly Winston’s $80,000 donation from the Spencer [...] read more
    October 29, 2008 3:49 pm - 7 Comments
  • frog

    The donations scandal



    No I’m not talking about not Ian Wishart’s one. The fact the both major parties are currently so lacking in major donors seems a scandal. It’s now only three weeks to the election and yet, as of ten days ago, Labour hasn’t declared a single received donation over $20,000 this year to help fund its [...] read more
    October 18, 2008 11:05 pm - 19 Comments
  • frog

    Exxon finally admits denialists cause problems



    Exxon has publicly admitted that its funding of climate change deniers is causing problems for action on climate change. It took the Greenpeace campaign, ExxonSecrets, a long time but patience and hard work has born fruit and they are to be congratulated. So which groups is Exxon dropping? According to Reuters, gone from the funding [...] read more
    June 10, 2008 10:01 am - 20 Comments
  • frog

    The Owen Glenn affair



    The Greens have not commented on the Owen Glenn saga, but contrary to allegations from Kiwiblog not because we are covering for Labour or scared of offending the Prime Minister. As we’ve often said, when it comes to policy and philosophy National has far more in common with Labour than the Greens do. [...] read more
    February 26, 2008 3:59 pm - 27 Comments
  • frog

    Herald defends disenfranchised Paratai Drive residents



    I’m confused.  Is the Herald confirming it thinks it is a good thing that a wealthy (sorry, ‘comfortable’) lawyer on Paratai Drive with very strong political views should be able to unaccountably spend $250,000 campaigning for or against whichever political party he wants? That hardly seems a level playing field for John Key’s favoured voters [...] read more
    November 14, 2007 10:47 am - 13 Comments