Fan of weird microbes, Pākehā nō Pōneke, dilettante crafter, co-President @nzscientists.bsky.social. All opinions my own etcetera.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
Last Friday morning as I rode my bike to work still slowly digesting the bezoar of Budget news, some disparate threads coalesced in my mind.
I hope that I've wrangled them into something fairly digestible asking if we focus everything on economic outcomes, are we set to be research freeloaders?
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I have sympathy towards the idea that people with industry expertise should have an easier time getting registered as teachers in their field, but teaching is its own set of skills: being an expert in one subject doesn't make you good at teaching that subject (as NZ's university system shows.)
I keep coming back to this because the rationale given for cutting environment/ag research spending is we spend more than comparator countries, and the rationale for cutting social science research spending is that...we spend less than comparator countries, apparently. I mean, c'mon.
Actively trying to *not* know things because what if the real world is inconvenient to the narrative, I guess
Possibly my hottest take is that every time I hear someone whine about speed cameras all I hear is "I routinely drive faster than the speed limit and I don't think I should suffer any consequences for it"
NB: similar things are happening in terms of the quiet death of environmental monitoring programmes in AoNZ, it's just not as dramatic
But the Post Primary Teachers' Association is pushing back on Erica Stanford's plan, saying teachers should be qualified.
