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TOUGH EXAMINATION
The idea of publishing employment success rates and salary levels of graduates of specific tertiary education courses will not go down well among some academics. In some countries - the US in particular - highly detailed information about graduates' employment prospects is gathered and sold by private publishers, with a huge influence on the fortunes of universities. As New Zealand universities struggle to compete internationally, it is hard to know whether such transparency would help, or make things even tougher.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10792279
The times they are a changing. -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Mike Graham,
Very pertinent because this question has pulled NZ from pillar to post. When Labour are in charge it's best to be an employee, when NACT are in charge, a contractor.
All is confusion and pain if you are a Sole Trader but.
Ideologically NACT hate on staff, fact. We also have our own bad selves to blame, the whole employment status thing is fraught with class distinction, envy and illusion.
Globally you make most capital out of staff, here in NZ you will make more out of owning the building they are working in. -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Sacha,
Sadly yes. For us the voters there is no coming back from a privatised publicly owned company. I wish more voters knew this. By the time the company has been asset stripped and necessarily re-nationalised, we the voters have to pay for it all over again.
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But the mayor said the council could not intervene because legislation which set up the port ownership under a limited company prevented it doing so. He likened the case to a 2004 industrial dispute involving Air New Zealand where the government of the day, as shareholder representative, said it couldn't step in.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6582308/Ports-of-Auckland-pauses-redundancy-plan
Except that the Govt. did step in with 850 million dollars just a bit further down the track. Money and people, they are different things ay?But the mayor, several councillors and the council's legal team said the council could not intervene. The port is run by a limited company, Auckland Council Investments, at arm's length from the politicians.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6580573/Council-votes-down-wharfies-support-motion
And that is exactly why corporatism is a democratic epic fail. -
Managers hating specialists in New Zealand since 1840.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Sacha,
I agree with Ben that the quality of our managers and leaders also has a lot to do with NZ not capitalising on the knowledge economy we already have.
I could say alot here but cannot at this time. Ben is correct in my experience that there are fundamental issues here in New Zealand about actually being secure enough to forward another's ambitions.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Fractionally, Shearer is also ambitious for New Zealand remember? It seems fairly apparent to me that Shearer is designer Labour Key, sadly this will have bad affects. Notably that Labour thinks we are all so stupid as to remember them left.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yes, not too tired for this as it is an important point - Shearer is Key's doppelgänger.
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Key's good on the what, on the how, not so much. For me it's signalling the time may have come for us all to re-consider the politician's ability to grasp any issues other than self aggrandizement (hehe US spelling must be!).
What I lament is twofold,
1. the pervasive nature of media invasion by politicians
2. the obviously stated fact by them that they don't really care for the problems they daily fabricate.
For me it's just getting way too much pseudo-information overload. I'm tired of them.
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The idea that Tsar Joyce is the One to rule them all is very confidence inspiring (sic).