Posts by Rob Stowell
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Or just another common or garden anty-intellectual? :(
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Wait til they get rid of elected reps and stack university councils with business-people. We should have a 'For Sale' sign tattooed on our foreheads at birth :(
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Hard News: Disrupting the Television, in reply to Sacha,
Probably :) Post then check- or get Sacha to sub-edit- is a poor operating model, but alas, the new firmware update is still uploading :)
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Hard News: Disrupting the Television, in reply to Russell Brown,
But Vodafone does let you spend as little as $20 for 250MB, which is okay for trips away
2 degrees (go Kai Tahu!?) have a 'national data pack' that gives you 300 Mbs, 30 minutes talk, and 300 texts for $19.
A pretty reasonable deal- but much better if it didn't expire :) -
Feyerabend, if I remember, more-or-less equates science with voodoo or astrology, in the rationality stakes.
Did he make any serious attempt to explain of why science has been rather more successful- assuming he'd agree that it is? I can't remember :) -
Hard News: The Base, in reply to Keir Leslie,
you make a speech that looks suspiciously like a leadership speech,
someone has to :)
but really: it was welcomed by many Labour supporters as a fairly clear expression of values we share. if that’s too much for the ‘top team’ they need to take a long hard look at their own values.
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Yep- more for science and engineering, and even more for medicine, I gather.
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Keir, unless I'm mistaken, the 'costs' per eft are in fact what the University charges NZ students- not what a years study in that field costs the University. That's closer to the overseas costs- (domestic fees, plus Govt money- the part Joyce is intent on tweaking- of approx 2x the fees- so in the region of $15k per EFT). There's a pretty big margin added for foreign students- which has turned NZ public education into a business, at least partially.
A big chunk (about a third) goes to support central services- AV and HR, student services, facilities- gardeners, and cleaners; vice-chancellors and marketers, etc etc. It's arguable you could run a university without some of this- but not without all of it. The rest goes direct to Colleges/Depts.
<disclaimer>I think- subject to observer error and bias- and I'm not the registrar :) -
Labour slowly but surely reaping the full price- and more- of making the wrong choice. Tho Edwards may be a tad peeved he hides it pretty well!
And yes: Labour appear to be trying hard not to get elected again (and to make it clear they believe in nothing much that distinguishes them from teh Nats.) What's remarkable is that they are doing it so early in the election cycle. -
Top show last night :)