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Economics Learning Approaches
Many students are interested in economics. To understand how economics work, reading is the most basic way of learning. Student can read “Principles of Economics” […]
Can You Pass The World’s Shortest IQ Test?
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Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
This study note looks at some of the root causes of the global financial crisis that exploded in 2007-08. Chain of cause and effect: US […]
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I am a teenager and NCEA level one student. This piece is not my woeful lamentation about the standard of my teachers, nor is it a rhetoric […]
‘NZQA has taught students nothing except to devalue their own sense of self worth’
Is it just me (as a parent) or have this year’s NCEA Level 1 exams been a disaster of Road Runner proportions? From the impossibly hard […]
Editorial: What’s the best way to measure success in education?
EDITORIAL: “I used to get mad at my school,” The Beatles sang on It’s Getting Better more than 50 years ago. “The teachers who taught me weren’t cool.” […]