Nine To Noon for Thursday 30 March 2017

 

 

09:05 NZ universities 'not relaxing standards'

Kathryn Ryan talks to Professor Stuart McCutcheon the Chair of Universities New Zealand, who is strongly denying  that universities are lowering standards for entering university or passing courses. It follows our story yesterday about  lecturers saying they are being forced to pass incompetent students or face losing funding.

09:20 Time to re-think agribusiness careers?

Nuffield Scholar, Jason Rolfe has done a research project about stoking secondary students' interest in primary industry studies, and  Peter Hampton is the deputy headmaster, and the director of the agribusiness programme at St Pauls Collegiate in Hamilton. He has been instrumental in the development of an Agribusiness subject which will be available next year in some schools for NCEA level two and level three students.

9:30 Where does post natal depression start?

Clare Ladyman is a PhD candidate at Massey University's Sleep/Wake Research Centre.  She tells Kathryn Ryan about a study she's undertaking of 30 pregnant women to determine the impact of their sleep patterns on mental health, and the effect of poor sleep on depression during and after pregnancy. She is seeking first time mothers, under 13 weeks pregnant, with a history of depression to take part in the study. Phone 0800mumsleep or 0800 686 75 337; text 'sleep' to 5222 or email: mumsleep@massey.ac.nz

09:45 UK correspondent

UK correspondent Matthew Dathan on Brexit and triggering Article 50.

10:05 Change is gonna come

How does political and social change happen? Kathryn Ryan talks with Duncan Green, Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and senior strategic advisor for Oxfam UK.  His new book, How Change Happens has been called a "splendid treatise on how to change the actual world - in reality, not just in our dreams".

10:35 Book review

Jenna Todd reviews All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

10:45 The Reading

11:05 New technology with Paul Matthews

Wikileaks have done it again, this time exposing the secret hacking tools of the CIA and by extension other US spy agencies, why your TV could be spying on you, and while Uber continues to stumble, EATS is awesome.

11:25 We're All Wonders

Kathryn Ryan talks with the author of the award winning novel, Wonder, RJ Palacio, about writing for children about others who are different. In her latest book, We're All Wonders, she introduces younger readers to her now famous character,  Auggie Pullman, a boy who was born with a facial deformity.

11:45 TV Review

TV and Film writer Paul Casserly reviews Believer, I am Innocent, and Soho's dramatization of the rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, Feud.