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Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024002

Description: Shows MP Steven Joyce handing a report card marked D- to an unruly and lazy students labelled Novopay. Joyce notes that he will soon have him up to National Standard. Refers to the ongoing problems with Novopay, the government computer system used to administer teachers' pay and may also refer to negative public perceptions around the system of National Standards in New Zealand schools. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024130

Description: Shows a man sitting on a chair reading a newspaper to his young son. He explains that the census is used to plan services such as education, health, housing and transport. The son responds, 'So that's why they're in such a mess! Up till now they've been guessing!' Refers to the 2013 New Zealand Census on 5 March 2013, used as a basis to allocate billions of dollars in government spending. Participation in the census is mandatory. (Stuff.co.nz, 4 Mar 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024206

Description: The New Zealand public contemplate a dead drought stricken landscape. As well as lack of water, there is a lack of moderate pay scales for CEOs, satisfaction with EQC, quality TV, generous insurance companies, brilliant Solid Energy management, the integrity of John Banks (and by implication that of other MPs), quality education ministers, worthwhile overseas trips by the Prime Minister, 'clever' NZ First MPs and a boost for the West Coast among others. Considered from a Canterbury perspective, the drought of early 2013 becomes a symbol for many of the recent political and social ailments afflicting the land. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021633

Description: Refers to the announcement by Education Minister Hekia Parata, that class sizes will be increased. The immediate backlash by teachers and parents forced Parata to back down. Prime Minister John Key came to the rescue with assurances that no school would lose more than two teachers but had to admit National had no idea how this would impact on the $43 million a year savings that were to be diverted to improving teaching "quality". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021546

Description: A teacher in a class, about to give an exam, tells pupils, while surreptitiously handing them the answers, 'Here's the deal...you lot do well...I do well!'. The proposals for 'performance pay' for good teachers, to be based on pupils' success rates, raised concerns that such a system could be open to abuse. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021678

Description: Cartoon shows a bust of Plato along with a quotation about education. Context: Announcement by the Minister for Education Hekia Parata that class sizes were to be increased brought immediate backlash by teachers and parents. She was forced to back down. Prime Minister John Key came to the rescue with assurances that no school would lose more than two teachers but had to admit National had no idea how this would impact on the $43 million a year savings that were to be diverted to improving teaching "quality". Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021770

Description: Shows a 'government' car doing an abrupt u-turn to avoid a large 'Teachers' truck. Context: Education Minister Hekia Parata announced plans to increase class sizes had been dropped (Stuff 8 June 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022012

Description: Shows the principal of an 'elite Auckland secondary school' denying that he rejects pupils from poorer areas; he comments that in fact the school's rugby teams are full of them. Context: Relates to the phenomenon of schools developing sports academies for pupils with ability in sport rather than academic subjects. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023101

Description: Shows Education Minister Hekia Parata in front of a blackboard that is covered in mathematical equations and has a solution that reads 'School cuts'. She is confident that it is not the working out but the end results that counts. Context: Refers to the government's intention to close 30 schools in Christchurch which is causing enormous anger and upset. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022863

Description: A worried Hekia Parata, Minister of Education, tells John Key, the Prime Minister, that schools in Canterbury are resisting being merged. John Key replies that the government will go through a 'consultation process' and then 'do what we like'. However the schools are claiming marae status and thus protection under the Treaty of Waitangi. The 'Hui report' which the Prime Minister is holding confirms this fear. The Ministry of Education, given the excuse of the Canterbury earthquakes, announced that many schools there will be merged or closed. Threatened schools, particularly the two Maori language schools, lodged complaints with the Waitangi Tribunal. 'Hui reports' refers to the claims and resulting hui over the water rights of the proposed partial privatisation of state assets. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022885

Description: Shows crowd of schoolboys egging on two men fighting over who is headmaster. Context: Education Ministry announced proposal to merge Shirley Boys High School with Christchurch Boys High School amongst other Canterbury school closure and merger proposals (Stuff 13 September 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023058

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key flicking a paper bullet with a and Education Minister Hekia Parata throwing a paper dart. Parata laughs about 'National's standards'. On the blackboard is a list of controversial government policies. Context: 'National's standards' is a wordplay on 'national standards' in education which have become hugely controversial in the way they are established and in their publication. The policies on the blackboard refer to attempts to get beneficiaries into work and off the benefit, the sale of state-owned assets, the bullying of teachers and the threat to close around thirty Christchurch schools. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023308

Description: Shows Ministry of Education chief executive Lesley Longstone sitting on the trunk of an enormous elephant, labelled 'under acheivement by poorer kids' holding the Ministry of Education Annual Report to a man wearing a mortarboard cap and gown labelled PPTA (Post-Primary Teachers Association) who says he doesn't see the elephant in the room. Refers to recent comments that New Zealand can not consider its education system to be world class while Maori and Pasifika learners continue to be underserved. (New Zealand Herald, 2 Nov 2012) Colur and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).