Nine To Noon for Thursday 15 December 2016
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Pasifika student achievement at Aranui High School
9:09 AM.Teacher, Kieran Parsons from Aranui High School in Christchurch, about the 100 percent achievement rate of Pasifika students gaining level 2 NCEA. Audio
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Maori & Pasifika NCEA achievement
9:22 AM.The government has set a target to lift NCEA pass rates across the board. By next year, it aims to have 85% of all students with NCEA level 2, and 50% to have gained University Entrance. It is close… Read more Audio
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Young poet’s powerful response to the world
9:36 AM.Listen to 17 year old Aucklander Ruby Esther's spoken word piece 'I Normally Write Funny Poems' - winner of this year's Word Up! competition. Read more Video, Audio
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UK correspondent - Matt Dathan
9:48 AM.In the UK where there's been much debate about British MP's emergency debate in Parliament on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Aleppo. Several MP's spoke out about how Britain's inaction in Syria… Read more Audio
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The Young Turks shaking up US media
10:07 AM.Cenk Uygur is the founder and host of The Young Turks - the most popular news and current affairs show on YouTube. Read more Audio
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Book review - The Transmigration of Bodies / Signs Preceding the End of the World
10:38 AM.Written by Yuri Herrera. Reviewed by Gail Pittaway, published by Text Publishing. Audio
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New technology with Andy Linton
11:07 AM.Andy Linton on the folly of having backed-up data but no emergency plan to access it in light of Statistics New Zealand struggle to obtain vital data after its building was damaged in the Kaikoura… Read more Audio
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Fostering intelligence and the first-born advantage
11:27 AM.The best thing you can do for your baby’s brain is pile on the attention in their first 1000 days, says educationalist Nathan Mikaere Wallis. Read more Audio
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Viewing with Tamar Munch
11:47 AM.Tamar Munch reviews Netflix series the Israeli political drama Fauda, Australia's Glitch about a group of people coming back from the dead and documentary series Hip Hop Evolution. Audio
09:05 Pasifika and Maori school pass rates – are the gaps closing?
The government has set a target to lift NCEA pass rates across the board. By next year, it aims to have 85% of all students with NCEA level 2, and 50% to have gained University Entrance. It is close to achieving both those targets, but how are Pasifika and Maori students faring within that?
Dr Aaron Wilson is a senior lecturer in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy at Auckland University. Kieran Parsons is from Aranui High School in Christchurch, which has achieved a 100 percent achievement rate of Pasifika students gaining level 2 NCEA.
09:30 Young poet’s powerful response to the world
Kathryn Ryan talks to young Auckland comic, Ruby Esther who won the Word Up competition with her spoken word piece, 'I Normally Write Funny Poems'.
09:45 UK correspondent Matt Dathan
In the UK where there's been much debate about British MP's emergency debate in Parliament on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Aleppo. Several MP's spoke out about how Britain's inaction in Syria had shamed the nation.
10:05 Meet the New Media
Kathryn Ryan talks to Cenk Uygur, host and founder of The Young Turks - the single most popular news show on YouTube. Just recently TYT's videos reached a total of 3 billion views. Cenk's also the force behind Wolf PAC, a movement lobbying for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics in the USA.
10:35 Book review - "The Transmigration of Bodies / Signs Preceding the End of the World" by Yuri Herrera
Reviewed by Gail Pittaway, published by Text Publishing.
10:45 The Reading
Shingle Beach: 4: Something Old Something New by Carl Nixon, read by Gavin Rutherford.
11:05 New technology with Andy Linton
Andy Linton on the folly of having backed-up data but no emergency plan to access it in light of Statistics New Zealand struggle to obtain vital data after its building was damaged in the Kaikoura Quake.
11:25 Stimulating natural intelligence
When it comes to intelligence - how much is down to our genes - and where does the rest come from? Kathryn talks with Nathan Mikaere Wallis of X-Factor Education.
11:45 Viewing with Tamar Munch
Tamar Munch reviews Netflix series the Israeli political drama Fauda, Australia's Glitch about a group of people coming back from the dead and documentary series Hip Hop Evolution.