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Waimea College Principal Scott Haines said while schools were trying to make 2021 as normal as possible for students, the disruption from Covid-19 would continue to have an impact.
More than six months since Covid-19 shut down classrooms, the after-effects of the disruption linger as schools prepare to return to the classroom, writes Tim Newman. Along with thousands of other staff and pupils trickling back into the classroom after a summer break, Waimea College principal Scott Haines will this week be back in his office. Following a year of disruption in which, for more than a month from March through to May (and in some cases for longer), schools were closed to students, and teachers scrambled to set up online curriculums and run classes via live-stream.
News from TEU
TEU members at Victoria University of Wellington just want to get on and provide quality education, but decisions about the way public money will be spent is making that hard.
“News that Victoria University’s senior management are seeking resource consent for cosmetic changes to the Pipitea campus underlines a worrying disconnect between rhetoric and reality,” says Dougal McNeill, Tertiary Education Union VUW branch president.
“Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford used his Christmas party last year to scold staff for not putting themselves forward for redundancy,” McNeill went on, “claiming the University needed to make tough choices to reduce debt. But what values are on display here? Is there money for a brand refresh but not for the teaching and research staff students need for their learning? These plans seem topsy-turvy.”
Has there really been no warming of the planet in 22 years?
By George Driver 2021-01-29 14:26:07
The Statement
Rowan Dean, Sky News host, January 19, 2021.
The Analysis
Sky News host Rowan Dean has questioned the evidence for climate change, citing temperatures drawn from satellite data to claim there has been no global warming.
However, experts say Mr Dean’s apparent “cherry-picking” approach misrepresents the climate data and relies on figures that don’t properly gauge worldwide temperature changes.
In a segment on January 19, Mr Dean – who has previously called climate change “the biggest hoax of them all” – claimed climate activists had “disappeared under the doona” during a cool Australian summer, going on to question whether global temperatures were increasing.
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