Jack from Te Whanganui a Tara based community radio collective Mouthful joins Rosetta and Milly for a kōrero about their new compilation Flower Beds That Grow! Whakarongo mai nei!
The University Advisory Group headed up by Sir Peter Gluckman made more than 60 recommendations to improve the fragmentation, poor governance and funding woes of the university sector. Sitting above them all was a ‘highest priority’ call to set up a standalone government agency to administer separate strategy and funding for universities. The Government has said no.
Producer Sanat spoke to the Tertiary Education Union’s spokesperson Sandra Grey about the Government’s response to this report and whether it will change the Tertiary Education Sector fundamentally to respond to the persistent challenges that have affected New Zealand’s Universities.
Advance voting is currently open for the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, with the official election day on Saturday.
A Newsroom investigation has questioned the accuracy of Amazon’s claim that it will open several Amazon data centres in Auckland, boosting our economy.
And a new exemption has been announced to the 2018 ban on foreign buyers.
For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire Host Caeden asked Shanan Halbert about all of these topics.