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Invest in learning, as well as teaching
Monday, 19 May 2003, 8:50 am | Simplified Spelling Society
A call for the Government to initiate a cost-benefit analysis of the gains that a simpler English spelling system would bring to learning reading and writing has been made by the Simplified Spelling Society. More >>
Political initiative for spelling change
Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 3:59 pm | Simplified Spelling Society
Almost exactly 50 years after a spelling reform bill was approved by the British House of Commons, a comparable move is being made in New Zealand. More >>
Celebrating a failure
Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 1:54 pm | Simplified Spelling Society
This week people who advocate the updating of English spelling celebrate a failure that almost led to important changes in our written language. More >>
'Attack The Causes, Not The Symptoms'
Thursday, 29 August 2002, 4:00 pm | Simplified Spelling Society
The Simplified Spelling Society, thru its New Zealand spokesperson, Allan Campbell, has accused both the Minister of Education, Hon Trevor Mallard, and his Act critic, Donna Awatere Huata, of not accepting the most obvious simple way to deal with the ... More >>
Same Old 'Cures' For Same Old Problems
Wednesday, 28 August 2002, 1:41 pm | Simplified Spelling Society
The Government plans to throw more money at the same old literacy problems by invoking the same old symptom-based "cures", says the Simplified Spelling Society in a statement. More >>
Comment On OECD Report
Friday, 7 December 2001, 10:40 am | Simplified Spelling Society
The high placings for New Zealand in the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment study is good news, but no cause for complacency, says the Simplified Spelling Society's New Zealand spokesman, Allan Campbell. More >>
