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• The Liberal Mind – Banish Bayes to Restore Crime

  
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  George Rebane Over the years the charges of discrimination, racism, and racial profiling have flown thick and fast from our liberal cadres who oppose various policies of law enforcement. And more specifically, the allocation of resources in such enforcement practices...
  6 days ago

• America, quo vadis et cui bono?

  
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  George Rebane Economic historian Niall Ferguson invites an answer to that question by first addressing ‘How America Lost Its Way’. As the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford, and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover...
  1 week ago

• Mobile internet on rise, but not ruling web yet

  
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  KIWIS are getting more mo bile via broadband, but maybe not as fast as we may think or as fast mobile marketers would like. A third of all households used a mobile phone to access the internet last year, according to Statistics New Zealand. This is a 26% increase in mobile phone data use since 2009, when just 8% ...
  1 week ago

• Mr Gove’s Important Changes to the Numeracy QTS Skills Test

  
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  Apparently you can’t be a great English teacher if you are half decent at Maths, so it’s pull up your socks time folks and get ready for the QTS test. The tests will be getting harder.  From Sep 2014, the content of the test will be equivalent to a C at GCSE.  In Sep 2015 it will be in between B and C.  In Sep ...
  1 week ago

• Kiwi crustaceans tempting tastebuds of China’s growing middle class

  
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  CHINESE tastes for kiwi crustaceans has fuelled a doubling of seafood ex ports there in the past five years. The seafood industry has experienced a 202% rise in export value to China over the past five years, creating flow-on effects for industry and training. The increase has taken China from number five to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cooldown in Australia timely for Christchurch

  
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  IMAGE: BBC News A COOLING off in Australia’s mining has helped recruiters for Christchurch’s rebuild. Recruitment firm Coverstaff has noticed the change, says sales and marketing director Clive Murden. “There is less of a pull to Australia due to a cooling down in jobs, meaning fewer kiwis are leaving for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teaching Counting On With Monopoly

  
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  Winter has hit and hit hard on the 1st June. Today was the wettest June day on record , with more than 48 millimetres recorded in the city. So while I undertook the first day of my 21 Challenge in the comfort of my warm and dry home, I did think and talk about with the kids, of the homeless youth of Melbourne, who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online Education Promoting More Inequality?

  
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  George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 May 2013. This and previous commentaries are also available on the KVMR website.] Information systems professor Larry Press of CalState Dominguez Hills recently asked the question...
  2 weeks ago

• A confession

  
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  My son thinks I am one of the cleverest people on the planet. Obviously I’m not going to correct him on this awesome assumption. Wouldn’t want to shatter the 10 year old’s illusions. I’m going to revel in the glory for as long as it lasts. I love that he loves to learn because it means we get to study ...
  3 weeks ago

• Argyll and Bute’s Helensburgh nursery a finalist in 2013 Scottish Education Awards

  
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  Amongst the finalists just announced for the 2013 Scottish Education Awards is Helensburgh’s Cottage Kindergarten, seeing off hefty competition from the sector across Scotland. Even better, its status as a finalist is in the Numeracy Across Learning – as aspect of competence Scotland as a whole needs to get ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pipe Dream – Candidates’ Full Disclosure Act

  
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  George Rebane Chatting around the dining table the other night, we reviewed all the laws that require sellers to fully disclose to the buyer the condition and relevant history of what is being sold. Such full disclosure provisions as apply...
  4 weeks ago

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