Morning Edition: 26 November 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Tuesday, twenty sixth of November. In
this update, the Education Review Office is calling for an
overhaul of NCEA Level one. Its review has found the
majority of teachers and employers believe it's an unreliable way
to measure knowledge and skills. Education Evaluation Center head Ruth

(00:26):
Shanoda says less than three quarters of schools planned to
offer NCEA Level one next year. She says we need
to look at all three of the NCEA levels together
and a side if level one is even needed.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We do stick within VAI level one. We need to
increase the consistency, reduce a variability so it's an equal
amount of work, and put more way to assessments later
in the year for students keep studying.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Concern as some schools won't have their new maths workbooks
when the new curriculum starts. Structured Maths and Structured Literacy
both start from term one next year. Education Minister eric
Is Stanford has confirmed some schools will receive their order
during term one rather than before it. NZDI President Mark
Potter says the process will create more unnecessary stress universities

(01:12):
are experiencing increasing student interest in artificial intelligence degrees and courses.
Masters of Artificial Intelligence degrees are now running at multiple universities,
with many other undergraduate and postgraduate courses and related papers
also available. Victoria University of Wellington Senior lecturer in Artificial
Intelligence Andrew Lensen says the courses they run are growing

(01:35):
each year.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's also a writer interest from students outside of computer
science who want to understand a bit more about AI,
and we are to have some more informed conversations and
get those jobs really and that's more important to how
AI play that New Zealand cuts.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
To Paul's parks and cycle ways will be proposed as
Wellington City Council gets the axe out. Today, counselors are
deliberating what to chop from the city's tenure budget in
a meeting expect to be watched by Crown Observer at
Lindsay Mackenzie. Miya Torrifarno wants to protect climate projects in
vows to fix water and not increase rates. Hope's a

(02:10):
new police station in Auckland CBD will have more cops
than initially suggested. The Government's planning to have the Federal
Street facility open to the public twenty four to seven.
By mid next year, it will have fifty one beat
officers and staff, including prosecutors and Firearms Safety Authority personnel,
but Heart of the City, chief executive of Beggsys, will
need to be more to match the people in the area.

(02:33):
Seventeen people are missing in the Red Sea after the
sinking of a tourist boat. Egyptian authorities say twenty eight
people have been rescued so far. As this search and
rescue mission continues, the BBC's Matthew and Roley Waller says
the boat had left port near Mussa Alarm on Sunday
to begin a five day diving tour. There were forty
five people on board in total, thirty one tourists and

(02:56):
fourteen Egyptian crew members and in Sport, Indiana have crushed
Australia by two hundred and ninety five runs in the
opening cricket test of their five match series in Perth.
Four more New Zealanders, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santana Lockey Ferguson
and uncapped Bevan John Jacobs have sold via the Indian
Premier League auction. Previous big earners Caine Williamson, Darryl Mitchell

(03:20):
and Kyle Jamison missed out. The Tall Blacks have qualified
for basketball's Asia Cup after beating Chinese Taipei eighty one
sixty four in christ Church. I'm Nevaretti Manu and that
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at midday from the news Talk zb newsroom.