Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money .
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Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our Government made three promises: To keep New Zealanders safe from COVID-19 To .
Search underway for new director of Division of the Arts
A search-and-screen committee has been appointed to help identify and select candidates for the next director of the Division of the Arts.
The committee is being chaired by Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology. Other committee members include: Faisal Abdu’Allah, professor in the School of Education’s Art Department; Li Chiao-Ping, professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department; Amy Gilman, Director of the Chazen Museum of Art; Carolyn Kallenborn, professor in the School of Human Ecology; Angela H. Richardson of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration in the Wisconsin School of Business; Porter Shreve, professor of English; Beth Snodgrass, director of the Wisconsin Union Theater; Sofia Snow, director, First Wave, Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement; and Johannes Wallmann, associate professor in the Mead Witter School of Music.
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ONLINE: An Evening with Isabel Wilkerson
Feb 9, 2021 6:00 PM
December 15, 2020
Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns.
Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson has written two critically acclaimed books that focus on the Black experience in America:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America s Great Migration. On Jan. 25 she will be the keynote speaker for UW-Madison s virtual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium. The work to fulfill Dr. King s vision of racial equality continues today, and Wilkerson is carrying on this work, says Chancellor Rebecca Blank. (The presentation will be replayed on Feb. 9: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKt LIZzK6fi2BqbGw8jEuw
Professor of Communication
Studies, Auckland University of Technology
Primary
and secondary school teachers engage with students who are
constantly on devices consuming, sharing and jointly
creating texts, photos, videos and memes.
Across
social media, hate speech, conspiracy threads and health
disinformation swamp evidence-based material. Fabrications
and fragmentations of reality cannot be challenged in real
time.
Despite this massive influence on young minds,
the government intends to remove one of the few teaching
opportunities that might equip students to navigate their
online world.
Along with several other subjects,
secondary school media studies will be dropped
from the level 1 curriculum of the National Certificate