Wellington Airport (file image).
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While international air travel might have ground to a halt, Wellington Airport s $1 billion expansion plans are getting ready for takeoff.
The airport is currently consulting with the public on some of the early development, which will see the airport grow out into the neighbouring suburbs.
Public feedback is currently being sought on some of the early development.
But Eleanor West, a Wellington-based volunteer for environmental group Generation Zero, said the plans did not make sense. Our main opposition to the airport expanding is that that s putting more emissions in the air, West said. If we re having more planes in Wellington, then that s not going to be good for our climate change outcomes.
Although the incidence of polio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) has decreased in India, the nonpolio AFP (NPAFP) rate has increased. Nationwide, the NPAFP rate is 11.82 per 100 000 population, whereas the expected rate is 1 to 2 per 100 000 population.
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A few questions:
Assuming for the sake of argument that the apparent increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis is in fact due to the version of polio vaccine being used in India being the cheaper of vaccines available (this assumption is by no means a clear conclusion from the available evidence), do you think this outcome is worse than the outcome would have been from not vaccinating and letting polio run rampant?
Naenae Cricket club chairman Brent Wenlock was approached for comment. “CW take allegations of racism and discrimination extremely seriously and we have conducted a thorough investigation into the incident,” Cricket Wellington chief executive Cam Mitchell said. According to section 4.5 of the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) Conduct “any language or gestures that offend, insult, disparage or vilify another person on the basis of that person’s race, religion, gender, colour, descent or origin” is a Level 4 offence, where the entry point was a lifetime ban.
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Cricket Wellington chief executive Cam Mitchell felt the punishment handed down was a “fair and reasonable outcome”.
Smartest science students can be undiscovered in school system, research shows
3 Feb, 2021 08:40 PM
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NZ Herald
The smartest science students in New Zealand are not always being identified through the school system, research from Victoria University of Wellington shows.
A professor from the university s Faculty of Education, Dr Azra Moeed, has been investigating the identification of science students with independent researcher Dr Jenny Horsley.
The research has been laid out in a chapter in the Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific
Moeed has spent 40 years teaching and researching science in New Zealand schools and said high-academic-ability science students were not always discovered through the school system.