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Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020593

Description: Refers to the debate over whether larger classes effect learning. Cartoon suggests larger classes are bad for teacher mental health. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021587

Description: Shows Hekia Parata and John Key facing placard waving students protesting against education cuts. Context: Intermediate teachers and some pupils heckled Hekia Parata and demonstrated against cuts to teacher pupil ratios at a breakfast function (NZ Herald website 31 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021585

Description: Shows John Key attempting to silence Hekia Parata who is holding papers about class size. Behind Key is John Banks who has been put under a blanket. Banks is accompanied by a headless man with a suitcase of money and his friend Mr Crimp. Context: Parata has been criticised for National government plans to increase class sizes and fire teachers. Key intervened and claimed that no school would lose more than two teachers. (NZ Herald website 30 May 2012). Key has refused to sack ACT MP John Banks despite allegations that Banks knew his anonymous donor Kim Dotcom (NZ Herald website 7 May 2012) and accepted donations from anti Maori Invercargill businessman Louis Crimp (NZ herald website 21 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021758

Description: Shows four National government communications staff members discussing how to distract the public from Education Minister Hekia Parata backdown over plans to increase class sizes. Suggestions are other current government controversies, comments by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett that government was considering sterilising parents of neglected or abused children, the police announcement that they will not charge ACC Claimant Bronwyn Pullar in relation to claims by ACC managers that she threatened them, and Tariana Turia has introduced increased tobacco levies in 2012 Budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021364

Description: Context: Minister of Education Hekia Parata announced that class sizes would increase, a notion so contentious that the backlash forced a backdown. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020594

Description: Shows a chaotic classroom. Context: debate about class sizes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0023251

Description: Mock entrance test for 'New Entrants' to Ministry of Education, set by NCEA ('Not Even Close to Educational Acumen'). The 'Starter Question' asks about how to decribe the proposal to increase class sizes to 'better assist poor achievers': is it 'inane', 'something out of a donkey's nightmare', 'Dickensian' or 'not world-class'. All four answers are correct. Lesley Longstone, an English career bureaucrat, was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of Education. Despite her comments about asisting poorly achieving pupils, her past career in the English Department of Education and her acquiescence in proposals to increase class sizes did not promise well. 'Donkey's nightmare' refers to a recent nickname for the Prime Minister, John Key. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).