New Zealand cricket admitted today that the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption and security unit (ACSU) had been in the country for the past 4 months investigating allegations of match fixing. Edit: After we wrote this post Dylan Cleaver in the NZ Herald said the three players under investigation are allrounder Chris Cairns, bowler Daryl Tuffey and batsman Lou…
Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales. Today’s tale was left a message responding to this article Kiwi Kids Nose-Dive in the Education Stakes which was about NZ’s disastrous plunge in the international PISA scores. The author has a broad experience of the tertiary education system in New Zealand and says not only does it…
As predicted, the latest Organisation for Econimic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report has shown that Kiwi kids have plunged in the international PISA scores (read NZ’s Education System Gets a Resounding F, Must Try Harder for background) We’ve not seen the report because it is embargoed until 11am Paris time 3/12/2013, so we apologise for only…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s story was sent in by a British man who emigrated to Northland as a ‘Brit Cop’ under the NZ First agreement. Despite having 10 years experience of UK policing he was treated as a probationer by…
We are saddened to hear that a German tourist suffered a serious injury during an attack outside The Napier Waterfront Lodge and Backpackers last Saturday night. This and other attacks are reminders that New Zealand continues to be an unsafe destination for some tourists. “A teenage German tourist has been taken to hospital after a…
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