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Speeches and presentations
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Choice and Vouchers - the Swedish experience
10 June 2009, Odd Eiken
Speech by Odd Eiken, former Swedish Secretary of State for Schools and Adult Education, at the Conference for Educational Policy-Makers, Boston University School of Education.
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Bulk Funding is Dead. Long live Bulk Funding.
12 June 2008, Norman LaRocque
A presentation by Norman LaRocque setting out the arguments in favour of school-based management and surveying international trends in school management.
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Bulk Funding is Dead. Long live Bulk Funding. - Slides
12 June 2008, Norman LaRocque
Slides accompanying the presentation "Bulk Funding is Dead. Long live Bulk Funding.".
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Zero Fees and a Universal Student Allowance for New Zealand?
16 April 2008, Norman LaRocque
Tonight I want to talk about tuition fees and student support. This is particularly relevant in Hamilton, a city that hosts a major university and institute of technology, as well as several private training establishments.
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Private Tertiary Education in New Zealand: Evolution
and Context
15 September 2005, Norman LaRocque
Norman LaRocque to the New Zealand Association of Private Education Providers
Conference 2005 in Wellington today.
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School Zoning: Locking Kids Out or Letting Them In?
7 February 2005, Norman LaRocque
Norman LaRocque's speech to the Rotary Club of Wellington
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Private Sector Participation in Education
6 September 2004, Norman LaRocque
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School Choice: Lessons from New Zealand
27 May 2004, Norman LaRocque
Norman LaRocque, Policy Advisor for the NZBR, was one of the speakers at the international conference on school choice held by the Cato Institute in Washington DC.
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Voucher Lessons from Sweden
3 March 2003, Robert Holand
School choice has come to Sweden in a big way over the past 10 years, confounding widespread perceptions of the Swedes as statists and providing inspiration for supporters of market-based education reform in the U.S.
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Making Sense of the Knowledge Economy
21 November 2002, Roger Kerr
It's possible to address my topic today more soberly than it was two or three years ago. An enormous amount of nonsense was talked by politicians and pundits about knowledge-intensive industries, the new economy, the information revolution and so forth. Painful lessons have been learnt as the high-tech bubble burst and investors discovered that the so-called new economy was subject to the same economic laws as the old.
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Education and Economic Growth
10 July 2001, Roger Kerr
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Achievement 2001
28 October 1999, Michael Irwin
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From Virtues and Vices to Passionate Values
19 August 1999, Michael Irwin
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Science and the Knowledge Economy
18 August 1999, Roger Kerr
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The Curricular Reforms - Are They Taking Us Forwards or Backwards?
17 July 1999, Michael Irwin
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What Parents Should Know About Education
17 June 1999, Roger Kerr
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Is There a Viable Alternative to State Funding, Regulation and Ownership of New Zealand Universities in the 21st Century?
30 October 1998, Roger Kerr
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Restoring Sanity to Education
24 September 1998, Roger Kerr
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A Business Perspective on the Private Tertiary Education Sector
16 September 1998, Roger Kerr
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Academic Freedom and University Accountability
18 August 1998, Roger Kerr
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The Education Debate in the 1990s: An Intellectual Adventure or Unexamined Orthodoxies?
8 April 1998, Michael Irwin
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Upgrading New Zealand's Human Resources
17 September 1997, Roger Kerr
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Follies and Fashions in New Zealand Education
7 August 1997, Michael Irwin
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The National Qualifications Framework: Where To Now?
7 August 1997, Michael Irwin
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Curricular Confusion: The Case for Revisiting the New Zealand Curriculum Framework
18 October 1996, Michael Irwin
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Thinking About Education
14 July 1996, Ron Carter
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Organisational Controls and Performance in the Education Sector
11 July 1996, Roger Kerr
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The Horse and the Boar: A Perspective on Higher Education
4 July 1996, Roger Kerr
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Education: The Way the World Should Be
18 May 1996, Douglas Myers
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Education, Teacher Unions and Competition
13 May 1996, Charles Baird
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Transforming Education: The Case for Vouchers
4 March 1996, Roger Kerr
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Minority and Majority Cultures and Education
9 February 1996, Michael Irwin
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Promoting Excellence in Higher education
5 March 1995, Roger Kerr
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How Are We Going to Pay for Tertiary Education?
3 November 1993, Roger Kerr
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Schooling for the 21st Century
13 March 1993, Douglas Myers
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Education Today
1 May 1992, Roger Kerr
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Today's Schools for Tomorrow's Children
9 April 1992, John Hood
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Joining the Unreal World: Education Politics in New Zealand
24 October 1991, Roger Kerr
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Positioning Polytechnics for the 1990s: An Industry Perspective
19 October 1991, Roger Kerr
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The Business of Education
19 March 1991, Bob Matthew
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Books and reports
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The New Zealand Curriculum
26 February 2007, Kevin Donnelly
NZ $22.50
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School Choice: The Three Essential Elements and Several Policy Options
1 August 2006, Caroline M Hoxby
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Education Matters: Government, Markets and New Zealand Schools
1 February 2004, Mark Harrison
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Reinventing Public Education in America: The 2001 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
19 December 2001, Benno C Schmidt Jnr
Introduction
I have come half-way around the world but I feel very much at home, with people who share not only a common language, but so much of my inherited experience. We are the descendents of the common law, of Magna Carta, of David Hume and John Locke. We share the same constitutional foundations. We believe in individual equality, dignity before the law and in freedom of speech and religion. We believe in limited, democratic government. We think the state should enhance individual liberty and opportunity, rather than the reverse. We believe in a government of laws, not of might.
There are periods in any nation's history when the question of who are its friends is put to the test. Since September 11, it has been such a time in America. I am here as an ordinary American citizen, without official role, but I know I speak for my country in saying that the United States will never forget who stood beside it on the ridges at Tora Bora.
When I read about your SAS forces in Afghanistan I cannot say I was surprised, because the resolve of New Zealanders in defending freedom is well known. But, it drove home the point that though a long distance in geographic terms separates our countries, there is no separation in basic ideas about freedom, human rights and the rule of law.
It is a privilege to be invited to your beautiful country to present the seventh Sir Ronald Trotter lecture. A lecture honouring one whose career has been as distinguished and far-reaching as Sir Ronald's puts
a heavy burden of persuasion on any speaker, even without the recordof the Trotter lecturers who have gone before. The quality of each speaker's contribution has already given this series great lustre in the global marketplace of ideas about public policy. It is therefore somewhat
daunting to stand in their footsteps this evening. However, I am confident of one thing: the subject of my talk is one of the most critical issues of public policy in the constitution of every free society.
NZ $12.50
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New Zealand's National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) - An International Perspective
1 August 2000, Kevin Donnelly
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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Policy Directions for School Qualifications: A Report on the National Certificate of Educational Achievement
1 August 2000, Education Forum
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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What Teachers and Parents Should Know About the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA)
1 August 2000, Education Forum
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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The Ideological Debate in Education
1 October 1999, Richard A Epstein
The first thing I should say is that the wrong Epstein is speaking to you today. The proper Epstein is my wife who works at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and who has been involved in most phases of school administration. It is through her, of course, that I have developed a strong interest in school education.
A second reason for my interest in this topic is our three children who have gone through the Laboratory Schools. Their successes and failures have piqued my interest as a parent who has attended his fair share of school plays and concerts. Moreover, as a teacher at a graduate law school, I retain a keen interest in what happens in schools everywhere to understand better the training and outlook my students acquired when they were younger. What we can achieve with these students depends very much on how they were educated at school.
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Regulatory Reform in Schooling
1 September 1999, Richard A Epstein
There is no summary available for this publication.
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The Role of the State in Education: The 1995 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
1 December 1995, Richard A Epstein
There is no summary available for this publication.
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Curriculum, Assessment and Qualifications: An Evaluation of Current Reforms
1 May 1994, Michael Irwin
There is no summary available for this publication.
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New Zealand Schools: An Evaluation of Recent Reforms and Future Directions - out of print
1 December 1990, Stuart Sexton
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Reforming Tertiary Education in New Zealand
1 June 1988, Richard Blandy
There is no summary available for this publication.
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Submissions
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Submission on the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
30 March 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Compulsory students’ association membership (CSM), as opposed to
voluntary students’ association membership (VSM), is an
anachronism. Students’ associations are incorporated societies
formed by members with common interests and are akin to the
Automobile Association, the Consumers' Institute, staff associations
and sporting clubs.
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Submission On The Tertiary Education Reform Bill
21 March 2002, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission on the Education Amendment Bill 2000
1 May 2000, Education Forum
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A Future Tertiary Education Policy for New Zealand
1 December 1997, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Tertiary Students Association Voluntary Membership Bill
1 August 1997, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Teacher Registration Bill
1 October 1995, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Industry Training Bill
1 March 1992, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Bulk Funding Of Teacher Salaries
1 May 1991, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission to the Working Party on Employer Funding Contribution to Training
1 June 1989, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Articles
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Education Lessons From Abroad
23 May 2011, Roger Kerr
Many countries provide lessons in education for New Zealand. Julia Gillard’s Labor government in Australia is introducing a $1.3 billion bonus scheme for top teachers. The UK government is introducing Swedish-style reforms. Finland, Korea and Singapore, which rank high in international league tables, offer other lessons.
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The 'Climategate' Scandal Should Not Be A Surprise
19 November 2010, Roger Kerr, Otago Daily Times
Last month I heard Professor Kealey speak at an academic conference in Australia. His topic was the ‘Climategate’ scandal at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. Subsequently, other global warming claims have been shown to be flawed, such as the disappearance of glaciers in the Himalayas predicted in the last IPCC report.
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Tertiary Funding Policy at an Impasse
18 June 2010, Roger Kerr, the Otago Daily Times
A fundamental law of economics is that you can control the price of something or the quantity supplied, but not both.
We saw that law in operation in the old Soviet system, with rationing and queues, and during the Muldoon wage and price freeze.
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Global Warming No Longer Cool Even in New Zealand
13 March 2010, Roger Kerr
From north America and western Europe to east Asia and Australia,
politicians are raising doubts about the costs of reducing carbon emissions
to combat climate change. But who would have thought that even in New
Zealand, which likes to parade its environmental credentials, global
warming is no longer cool?
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School choice: Making a Difference
12 March 2010, Roger Kerr
One early morning an elderly man walking on a beach came across a mass
of starfish, stretching as far as the eye could see, stranded on the beach by
the tide. Nearby a small child was running back and forth from the beach,
picking up starfish and throwing them into the water...
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‘Business As Usual’ Not Sound Climate Change Policy
8 March 2010, Roger Kerr
Business organisations have been taking stock of New Zealand’s climate change policy following the failure of the UN conference in Copenhagen last December.
Many urged the government not to rush the emissions trading legislation through parliament before Copenhagen and to await Australian and US decisions before finalising New Zealand policy.
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Is the Road to Copenhagen a Dead End?
23 December 2009, Roger Kerr
It has been obvious for months that no substantive agreement would be reached at Copenhagen. The government’s unseemly rush to pass the emissions trading legislation before the meeting and before decisions by the United States and Australia was folly.
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Pull Up Pull Up on ETS
24 November 2009, Roger Kerr
Once again we are seeing an unseemly rush to enact climate change legislation.
When will we learn that more haste often means less speed?
It is not as though there is any serious opposition, including within the business community, to New Zealand’s taking additional action now that Australia and the United States have come to the Kyoto party.
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A Swedish Model for Education
10 September 2009, Roger Kerr, Otago Daily Times
A recent visit to Stockholm was an opportunity to review the radical changes in the Swedish education system introduced in the early 1990s.
The Business Roundtable brought Odd Eiken, the head of the education ministry responsible for implementing them, to New Zealand to explain the reforms some 15 years ago.
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Two Cheers for National Standards
17 July 2009, Roger Kerr
Implementing a commitment on which it was elected, the government is introducing national education standards in schools.From 2010, parents of children at primary and intermediate schools will receive regular school reports showing how their child is doing in literacy and numeracy (reading, writing and mathematics). The stated purpose of the national standards is to let schools, teachers, parents and children themselves know if they are achieving at an expected level for their age and stage or whether additional support is needed.
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Teachers Should Be Rewarded for Performance
9 April 2009, Roger Kerr
Being paid according to the number of years spent teaching is obviously a very crude proxy for performance. It does little to reward effort and success and reflect how valuable a teacher is to a school.
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A Fresh Approach to School Choice?
5 December 2008, Roger Kerr
No doubt the new team of ministers is well aware of the quiet education revolution that has taken place in recent years in progressive-thinking countries like Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland and as close to home as Australia, all of which have introduced varying types of school choice systems.
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Universal Student Allowances: Another Election Bribe?
1 August 2008, Roger Kerr
We have here an important issue of public policy: what funding arrangements for tertiary education are in the overall public interest, as opposed to the special interests of student associations or tertiary providers?
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Bringing on the Innovators
20 June 2008, Roger Kerr
Governments around the world seek to create the conditions that give rise to successful entrepreneurs like Biro, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and the countless other achievers whose inventions transform lives and help drive a country's economic growth.
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Science and Maths: Could We Do Better?
25 January 2008, Roger Kerr
Parents worrying about their children's aptitude and interest in science and maths, and concerned about how they might fare in the school year ahead, would have been alarmed to read in late December of the sharp decline in maths and science teachers with relevant qualifications.
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Scoring Our Schools: What Makes for a Good Education?
19 October 2007, Roger Kerr
As senior school students across the country prepare for their final exams next month, we already know what some of the outcomes will be: students from independent schools, with only 4% of the country's students, are likely to gain around 16% of available scholarships at Level 4 or higher, and double their proportional number of NCEA Level 3 qualifications; among students leaving decile 10 schools, around 66% will have UE or a Level 3 qualification or higher; while of students leaving decile 1 schools, only 14% are likely to attain these qualifications.
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School Choice Lifts Underachieving Students
6 October 2006, Roger Kerr
This article was first published in the Otago Daily Times today.
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It's Yesterday's Schools Once More
25 August 2006, Roger Kerr
This article was first published in the Otago Daily times.
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Put tertiary funding where it gets best results
12 May 2006, Norman LaRocque
New Zealand's strong economic performance over the past 15 years has put a premium on ensuring schools and tertiary institutions produce graduates with skills relevant for the job market. But is the education system focused on the areas that get the best results?
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Tertiary Education: Who Knows Best?
28 April 2006, Roger Kerr
In early April, tertiary education minister Dr Michael Cullen announced the government's latest plans for 'fixing' tertiary education in New Zealand.
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Funding Tertiary Education
26 August 2005, Roger Kerr
This article was first published in the Otago Daily Times (26 August 2005)
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Education needs real choice
2 August 2005, Norman LaRocque
School choice, simply put, means giving parents the means to choose the school that best meets their child's needs. That could be the local state school, an independent school, an integrated school or a Kura Kaupapa Maori.
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Student support is already generous
28 July 2005, Norman LaRocque
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Bulk-funding: time to get back to the future
22 July 2005, Norman LaRocque
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School choice is mainstream policy
6 May 2005, Norman LaRocque
This article appeared in The Independent on 4 May 2005, by Norman LaRocque, Policy Advisor, NZBR and Education Forum
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Fees not the biggest barrier to study
27 April 2005, Norman LaRocque
If New Zealand is to enjoy quality tertiary education, a mix of private and public spending is a better option than taxpayers footing the whole bill.
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It's Yesterday's Schools Once More
20 July 2004, Roger Kerr
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Education has much to gain from less regulation
23 May 2003, Norman LaRocque
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A better way to equal pay
13 March 2003, Norman LaRocque
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Making the boat go faster
10 January 2003, Bill Day
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Health and Education: Government Failure
13 July 2001, Roger Kerr
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Perspectives
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Issue 408 Britain Looks to Graduates to Pick Up the Tuition Tab
29 October 2010, D D Guttenplan
LONDON — What is a university education worth? Who derives the benefits? And who should pay for it?
These were just some of the questions that pushed their way onto the front pages here last week after the publication of “Securing a Sustainable Future For Higher Education,” the results of a yearlong inquiry into higher education and student finance in Britain.
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Issue 407 Saving energy will tie us in green tape
27 October 2010, Henry Ergas
SCHEMES to cut power consumption should not cost more than the benefits they bring.
IN public policy, bad ideas never die: they go to second editions. The recently released report of the Prime Minister's Task Group on Energy Efficiency is a striking case in point.
Credit where credit is due. The report is well-written, logically presented and thoroughly referenced, virtues no longer common in government documents. But its mistaken premises lead to recommendations that would reduce productivity, cut incomes and tie us up in unending green tape.
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Issue 404 A Wealth of Ideas
13 October 2010, Jeffrey Collins
Having dined with Adam Smith on a number of occasions, Samuel Johnson once described him "as dull a dog as he had ever met with." Smith's biographers might be inclined to agree. The most celebrated political economist in history led a remarkably quiet life. Born in the sleepy Scottish port of Kirkcaldy in 1723, he was raised by his widowed mother and lived with her for much of his life. He studied at the University of Glasgow (which he loved) and at Oxford (which he loathed). Only once in his life did he travel outside of Britain.
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Issue 400 U-Turn on Global Warming? Hardly.
23 September 2010, Bjorn Lomborg
After years of being accused of believing something I didn't believe—or, more accurately, not believing something I really did—I made headlines last month for changing my mind even though I hadn't.
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Issue 393 Yummy, Cloned Beef and Scare-Story Sauce
23 August 2010, Dominic Lawson
Anyone for cloned beef? Rib-eye would be my preferred cut; but that’s because it’s my usual choice at the local butcher’s. Why should a cloned version taste any less delicious or be any less nutritious? In reality, that is not going to be a choice available to the general public. The Food Standards Agency won’t authorise it.
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Issue 390 Teach Yourself Free Market Economics in Two Hours
12 August 2010, Daniel Hannan
If you want to understand what’s happening to the world economy, read Peter Schiff’s new book (co-written with his brother Andrew): How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes. You don’t need any background in economics to understand it; an intelligent child could follow its arguments.
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Issue 386 Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
28 July 2010, Matt Ridley
When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. They said the population explosion was unstoppable, mass famine was imminent, a cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was beginning, the Sahara desert was advancing by a mile a year, the ice age was retuning, oil was running out, air pollution was choking us and nuclear winter would finish us off.
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Issue 382 The Gulf Spill, the Financial Crisis and Government Failure
13 July 2010, Gerald P O'Driscoll
The Gulf oil spill and the global financial crisis both demonstrate the failings of big government. Partisan politics obscures the linkage, with the consequence that each political party repeats the mistakes of the other as its turn to govern arrives.
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Issue 379 Dark Thoughts on Earth Hour
29 June 2010, Peter Day
As the doomsday cult frets about the planet, Peter Day mourns the decline of institutional science in Australia
From the hills over Hobart’s Sandy Bay, the lights from at least one house will be blazing even more brightly than usual during Earth Hour on Saturday night.
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Issue 370 Cap and Flee
28 May 2010, John Fleischman
California, that former land of opportunity, was one of the first states to pass its own version of "cap and trade" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007 when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the law, called AB-32, he said it would propel California into an economy-expanding, green job future. Well, a new study by the state's own auditing agency—its version of the Congressional Budget Office—has burst that green bubble.
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Issue 369 Gillard Sees Beyond School Bricks and Mortar
26 May 2010, Janet Albechtsen
IT'S been a week of potent political juxtapositions. The Prime Minister has revealed himself as a political butterfly fast losing support in the community.
By tossing away inconvenient promises when the political winds change, Kevin Rudd has shown that his only genuine and steadfast conviction is grabbing and holding on to power.
His inflated language when making promises has only heightened the sense of duplicity voters now feel when he breaks them.
In contrast, the Deputy Prime Minister has put on the boxing gloves.
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Issue 368 Why Charter Schools Fail the Test
19 May 2010, Charles Murray
Cognitive ability, personality and motivation come mostly from home. What happens in the classroom can have some effect, but smart and motivated children will tend to learn to read and do math even with poor instruction, while not-so-smart or unmotivated children will often have trouble with those subjects despite excellent instruction. If test scores in reading and math are the measure, a good school just doesn’t have that much room to prove it is better than a lesser school.
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Issue 360 Charter Schools and Student Performance
15 April 2010, Paul E Peterson
On Saturday, President Obama delivered a radio address on education and he didn't shrink from saying that American high school students are trailing international averages. He sketched out details of a bill his administration is now pushing to revise the No Child Left Behind Act. He proposes to preserve testing requirements but create a better measuring stick, require teachers be evaluated by performance (not credentials), and use carrots instead of sticks to encourage progress.
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Issue 359 The Business of Climate Change
13 April 2010, Pete Geddes
Global warming has created a breeding ground for political capitalists. These are businesses that are expert at manipulating the political process to gain profits they can’t make in the competitive marketplace. The opportunities for political capitalism increase with the size and scope of government. When government allocates resources and imposes constraints it is generally to serve the strong and entrenched; the weak and aspiring suffer. The recent health care reform clearly exemplifies just this sort of mischief.
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Issue 345 The Copenhagen Conference: A Setback for Bad Climate Policy in 2010
15 February 2010, Ben Lieberman
The December 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen capped off what must have been a very disappointing year for global warming activists and their allies in Washington. The year began with high hopes that the new Congress and Administration would enact global warming legislation and sign up the U.S. to a new global warming treaty. It ended with that legislation stalled in the Senate and with the Copenhagen conference concluding with an agreement so weak that it represents a step backward for the U.N. treaty process.
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Issue 343 Carry on with this Revolution, Julia
8 February 2010, Janet Albrechtsen
ACADEMICS, teachers' unions and their media lackeys live in a peculiar world. In this world, providing information about school performance is treated as a sin. While these groups were complaining about the Rudd government's My School website launched last week, parents hungry for information logged on to check the status of their child's school. So many logged on - nine million hits on the first day - that the system couldn't cope with the demand.
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Issue 340 Copenhagen and the Demise of the Green Utopia
28 January 2010, Dr Benny Peiser
The failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is a historical watershed that marks the beginning of the end of climate hysteria. Not only does it epitomise the failure of the EU’s environmental policy, it also symbolises the loss of Western dominance. The failure of the climate summit was not only predictable – it was inevitable. There was no way out from the cul-de-sac into which the international community has manoeuvred itself.
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Issue 339 A 'National Broadband Plan'
26 January 2010, WSJ Opinion
The Federal Communications Commission recently told Congress that it will miss a February deadline for delivering a "national broadband plan" and requested a one-month extension. If it keeps missing deadlines, nearly everyone in the U.S. might soon have high-speed Internet.
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Issue 334 The 'Science' Mantra
13 January 2010, Thomas Sowell
"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in a long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth — the hallmark of real science — has taken a back seat to a political crusade.
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Issue 332 Trust the Public on Climate Change
23 December 2009, Clive Crook
It is not enough for climate scientists and environment ministers to go to Copenhagen and tell each other how right they are. They also need to convince the public. National politics – the democratic process – is awfully inconvenient sometimes, but cannot be waved away.
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Issue 333 Time for a Climate Change Plan B
23 December 2009, Nigel Lawson
The world's political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging that the outcome of the United Nations climate-change conference in Copenhagen fell short of their demand for a legally binding, enforceable and verifiable global agreement on emissions reductions by developed and developing countries alike, they insist that what has been achieved is a breakthrough and a decisive step forward.
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Issue 330 A Few Notes on Climate Change
18 December 2009, Andrei Illarionov
As the Copenhagen Climate Conference is taking place, it is appropriate to clarify once again what is more or less accurately known about the climate of our planet and about climate change.
Obviously, a brief post can not substitute for detailed studies of professionals in a variety of scientific disciplines – climatology, atmospheric physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, and economics. However, a short post can summarize basic theses on the main trends in climate evolution, on its forecasts, and on its actual and projected effects.
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Issue 328 Climategate: Science is Dying
11 December 2009, Daniel Henninger
Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science.
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Issue 326 The Climate Science isn't Settled
7 December 2009, Richard S Lindzen
Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally—such as for the last dozen years or so—it does little that can be discerned.
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Issue 318 The Great Global Warming Scam
13 November 2009, Melanie Phillips
Yet another scientific scandal has come to light which knocks another whopping crater in the already shattered theory of anthropogenic global warming. Eight peer-reviewed studies, which for years have played a significant supporting role behind the IPPC’s claims of AGW, have been shown to be fraudulent.
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Issue 316 Why Oil Still has a Future
9 November 2009, Daniel Yergin
On Aug. 28, 1859, in the backwoods of northwest Pennsylvania, the first successful oil well went into production in the United States, ushering in an energy revolution that would make whale oil obsolete and eventually transform the industrial world. Yet 150 years later, even as demand increases in developing countries, oil's position in the global economy is being questioned and challenged as never before.
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Issue 281, Fund Kids Not Schools
10 July 2009, Jennifer Buckingham
The debate over funding to non-government schools has never really gone away. On the horizon is yet another review of federal funding arrangements and it is likely that big changes will be made.
There is widespread agreement that the existing funding system is flawed. However, the principle that underpins it is sound and should be preserved; if all children are legally required to attend school, then all children deserve public support for their school education, including those in non-government schools.
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Issue 281 Fund Kids Not Schools
10 July 2009, Jennifer Buckingham
The debate over funding to non-government schools has never really gone away. On the horizon is yet another review of federal funding arrangements and it is likely that big changes will be made.
There is widespread agreement that the existing funding system is flawed. However, the principle that underpins it is sound and should be preserved; if all children are legally required to attend school, then all children deserve public support for their school education, including those in non-government schools.
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Issue 274 Climate Change Issues: A Dissenting Voice
17 June 2009, David Henderson
In explaining why I take dissent to such lengths, I take as a point of departure a speech made last month by our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, to a gathering which had much the same theme as this meeting: it was a Low Carbon Industrial Summit.
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Issue 270 The Climate-Industrial Complex
3 June 2009, Bjørn Lomborg
Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets.
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Issue 266 Positive Outlook on Curriculum
20 May 2009, Kevin Donnelly
During her time as Minister for Education, Julia Gillard has made her stance, and that of the Government, very clear on school curriculum.
Mirroring concerns about falling standards and state and territory dumbed-down curriculums, Gillard describes herself as a traditionalist and argues for a back-to-basics approach to learning, where the subject disciplines are centre stage.
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Issue 254 Hour of No Power Increases Emissions
5 April 2009, Bjorn Lomborg
This Saturday, the World Wildlife Fund wants everybody on the planet to switch off their lights for an hour in a "global election between Earth and global warming", where switching off the lights "is a vote for Earth".
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Issue 158 Made in Sweden: the new Tory education revolution
7 March 2008, Fraser Nelson
This summer, at least 25,000 children will drop out of English schools without a single qualification to show for their years of compulsory education. Some 240,000 will graduate from primary school unable to read or write properly. By autumn, some 250 schools judged to be failing will welcome an intake of new pupils. Youth unemployment will probably hit an 11-year high. It will, tragically, be just another year in one of the world’s highest-funded education systems.
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Issue 83, On Education
2 February 2007, Charles Murray
These articles were first published in the Wall Street Journal
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Media Releases
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Education Forum releases submission on the school curriculum
26 February 2007, Education Forum
The Education Forum released today a paper prepared by Australian education consultant Kevin Donnelly on the revised school curriculum proposed by the Ministry of Education.
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Policy backgrounders
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No.6, Can we learn from Ireland's experience? An Irishman's Perspective
7 June 2005, Colin Lynch
Ireland's economic transformation has been breathtaking.
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E-Connects
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Climate Change Issues - New Developments in a 20-Year Context
23 November 2010, David Henderson, Royal Economic Society Newsletter
This note presents a personal sketch of the current debate on climate change issues, with special reference to the debate among economists. The opening sections, which give a 20-year perspective, draw in part on a paper of mine published earlier this year in the journal Energy and Environment. In the final section I comment on recent unexpected developments and their possible significance.
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The Tasks of Economics Education
7 September 2010, Peter Boettke
It seems that in economics it appears either that you get it or you don’t. If you get it, you work in the field; if you don’t, you hate what economists (as popularly imagined) stand for. Peter Boettke asks why?
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School Choice in Sweden: An Interview with Thomas Idergard of Timbro
8 March 2010, Dan Lips
American policymakers on the Left and the Right may be surprised to learn that a universal school choice program has taken hold in Sweden. The Heritage Foundation interviewed Thomas Idergard, Program Director of Welfare and Reform Strategy Studies at Timbro, a free-market think tank based in Stockholm.
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Swedish Parents Enjoy School Choice
5 October 2004, Mike Baker
Sweden's school choice system was introduced in 1992. It is based on a virtual "voucher" which is equivalent in value to the average cost of educating a child in the local state school.
Parents can use this "voucher" to "buy" a place at the school of their choice. The idea is that funding follows the pupil and, in this way, the state supports the schools that are most popular with parents.
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