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  • Cowards, liars and great apes - Parliament's zingers

    News
    The House politics
    23 Jul 2017
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    Sometimes a good quip is too tempting for MPs to resist but who decides when they've gone too far? Jamie Tahana takes a look at Parliament's 'sickest burns'.

    Video, Audio

    Cowards, liars and great apes - Parliament's zingers
  • Being socially awkward

    Audio
    author interview
    19 Jul 2017
    No caption

    We've all had one of those awkward experiences when we wanted to melt into the floor; making a socially clumsy comment, racing up to someone you think you know, but discover you don't, holding on to a… Audio

  • Trailblazing maths genius dies aged 40

    News
    World Identity
    16 Jul 2017
    Maryam Mirzakhani

    Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, has died of breast cancer in the US.

    Trailblazing maths genius dies aged 40
  • Teachers 'taking on' underfunded ESOL without training

    News
    New Zealand education
    14 Jul 2017
    No caption

    Teachers are warning funding has not kept up with the number of children needing help to speak English, which has increased by more than 50 percent in the last decade.

    Teachers 'taking on' underfunded ESOL without training
  • Two charter schools to open in Rotorua and Taupō

    News
    New Zealand education
    11 Jul 2017
    University or secondary school students study in a classroom.

    Two new charter schools targetting Māori students have been given the green light in Rotorua and Taupō.

    Two charter schools to open in Rotorua and Taupō
  • Man suspended for teaching while drunk

    News
    New Zealand education
    5 Jul 2017
    University or secondary school students study in a classroom.

    A Northland teacher has been suspended for two years for drinking alcohol at school, causing his students' grades to suffer.

    Man suspended for teaching while drunk
  • Interactive online STEM subject boost for NCEA students

    Audio
    education
    5 Jul 2017
    No caption

    A new online tool in education has been rolled out in Northland to help NCEA students in rural areas, where it can be difficult to attract specialist teachers of STEM subjects. STEM Online NZ is a… Audio

  • Bee's eye view could help robots, drones

    News
    World technology
    4 Jul 2017
    A honeybee on a yellow flower (close-up)

    The insects' highly efficient five-eye visual system could be adapted for machines, scientists say.

    Bee's eye view could help robots, drones
  • Wave forecasting

    Audio
    science environment
    4 Jul 2017

    Kathryn Ryan talks to Dr Richard Gorman, a NIWA scientists who specialises in wave forecasting. He says advances in mathematical models, satellite technology and supercomputers is giving us an… Audio

  • 5G Rural Internet

    Audio
    internet technology
    28 Jun 2017

    The United Nations say connectivity to the Internet is a basic human right, however one-year on, it says half of the planet is not connected. Most of these users live in rural and low-income areas… Audio

  • Marshalls high school students struggle with maths

    News
    Pacific Marshall Islands
    26 Jun 2017
    High school students in the Marshall Islands take the recent College of the Marshall Islands placement test under the watchful eye of proctor CMI official Terry Hazzard.

    Reports from the Marshall Islands say only two high school students out of nearly 600 have scored high enough in mathematics to directly enter courses at the College of the Marshall Islands.

    Marshalls high school students struggle with maths
  • Rhema Vaithianathan - The algorithm ace

    Audio 24 Jun 2017
    Rhema Vaithianathan

    Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics at AUT. She is widely published in the research areas of health and development economics and applied… Audio

  • NZ's weak productivity in OECD's sights

    News
    New Zealand economy
    15 Jun 2017
    Omaha Beach, north of Auckland

    New Zealanders generally enjoy high living standards, but the country's labour productivity continues to be a weakness, the organisation's latest report says.

    NZ's weak productivity in OECD's sights
  • Pacific schools to take part in robotics challenge

    News
    Pacific Solomon Islands
    15 Jun 2017
    Robots

    Six schools in Oceania will take part in an international robotics challenge which organisers hope could become an annual event.

    Pacific schools to take part in robotics challenge
  • Nights' Pundit - Maths

    Audio
    science
    6 Jun 2017

    Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. Audio

  • Why mathematics is at the heart of life

    Audio
    author interview
    6 Jun 2017
    Geoffrey West - Physicist

    Simple mathematical laws govern not just biology, but even human constructs such as commerce and cities – and if you feel like time is speeding up, you're correct says physicist Geoffrey West. Audio

  • Marshalls tertiary education in new partnership with USP

    News
    Pacific Marshall Islands
    30 May 2017
    Majuro Atoll which houses more than half of the Marshall Islands population

    Tertiary education in the Marshall Islands could be strengthened by a new partnership between the University of the South Pacific and the College of Marshall Islands.

    Marshalls tertiary education in new partnership with USP
  • Sport: Vanuatu beaten by Germany at FIFA Under 20

    News
    Pacific Vanuatu
    27 May 2017
    Vanuatu celebrate qualifying for the 2017 FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Korea.

    Vanuatu has been beaten by Germany 3-2 at the FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Korea.

    Sport: Vanuatu beaten by Germany at FIFA Under 20
  • John Mitchell to help the Bulls

    News
    Sport
    26 May 2017
    John Mitchell during his time as coach of Perth based Western Force.

    Struggling South African Super Rugby side the Bulls have named New Zealander John Mitchell as their Executive of Rugby.

    John Mitchell to help the Bulls
  • Modernised Tokelau schools seeing results

    Audio
    Pacific education
    24 May 2017
    Kids from the Hutt Valley region performing at the Tokelau Festival. In Tokelau, young kids are not allowed to perfom at the Fatele.

    An education expert from New Zealand says Tokelau children's English, Tokelauan and maths are improving after a change in teaching style on the atolls. Audio

  • Computing the truth

    Audio
    history education
    15 May 2017
    Noam Greenberg - Llullian circle

    Professor Greenberg, from Victoria's School of Mathematics and Statistics, is a world-leading researcher in the area of mathematical logic - the part of mathematics that regards language as an object… Audio

  • Nights' Overseas - Japan

    Audio
    spiritual practices life and society
    10 May 2017

    Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, pop. 126,434,964 (est… Audio

  • Neal Stephenson - Postcyberpunk author and futurist

    Audio
    science author interview
    6 May 2017
    Neal Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson is an American writer, known for his fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas… Audio

  • Spurs' title hopes suffer Hammer blow

    News
    Sport
    6 May 2017
    Manuel Lanzini of West Ham.

    Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League title hopes suffered a crushing blow as their nine-match winning run ended in a 1-0 defeat to West Ham at the London Stadium.

    Spurs' title hopes suffer Hammer blow
  • ANDREW PERKINS: The Radish and the Shoe (French)

    Audio
    music
    1 May 2017
    Andrew Perkins

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Luc Arnault (narrator), Hamish McKeich (conductor). Recorded by RNZ Concert for the 2014 NZ Composer Sessions. Audio

    This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.

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