"The report of the National, ACT and Maori Party Working Group points the way forward in important areas of education policy", the chairman of the Education Forum, Byron Bentley, said today.

In part one of this series I looked at how Soviet style socialism was constructed in a centralised and hierarchical manner and as to how this lent itself to authoritarianism. Marxism-Leninism became the central tenet of Soviet and, after 1945, Eastern European socialism.

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21 AUGUST 2009 - Former European Union Commissioner and Hong Kong Governor, the Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, is being brought to New Zealand by the University of Canterbury to deliver the annual Europa Lecture.