All posts tagged Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi

Key Māori news stories for the week ending 22 June 2012

On Monday Nga Pae o te Maramatanga (the Māori-focused Centre of Research Excellence), announced funding for six projects: Investigation into the fisheries resources and interests of iwi, hapū and marae within Tauranga Moana and the impacts caused by the grounding of the CV Rena (Associate Professor Paul Kayes, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi) Networks of [...]

Māori news stories for week ending 8 June 2012 and Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2012 – recipients for service to Māori.

 Debbie Packer has been appointed to the Local Government Efficiency Taskforce. The Taskforce will focus on efficiency issues of local government consultation, planning and financial reporting practices. A report is due to the Minister of Local Government, David Carter, in October 2012.  Mavis Mullins has been appointed to the Health and Safety Review [...]

March 26, 2012    Uncategorized

Māori news stories for the week ending 23 March 2012: Omnibus excerpt

On Tuesday the jury found the ‘Urewera Four’ guilty of a range of firearms charges, but they failed to reach a verdict as to whether the defendants were members of an organised criminal group.  The four defendants have been released on bail and await sentencing on May 24.  The Crown must now determine whether a [...]

Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori Economic Development

Wednesday 16 March; Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori Economic Development, a  research initiative that aims to optimise Māori economic performance and growth will be launched at TeMarae, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington.

February 16, 2011    Education, Social, Uncategorized

Trade academy launched in Whakatane

Last week Education Minister Anne Tolley launched the Eastern Bay of Plenty Trades Academy at Waiariki Whakatane campus.  The academy is a collaboration between Waiariki Institute of Technology, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi and all seven Eastern Bay of Plenty secondary schools.

January 13, 2011    Government

Dr Pita Sharples address to the Sharing Power- sustainable resource conference

Māori culture and traditions have a vital contribution to make to the social, cultural, environmental and economic life of Aotearoa  and to the world, according to Dr Pita Sharples.

January 10, 2011    Education, Social

Nobel Prize winner keynote speaker at the Sharing Power- sustainable resource conference in Whakatane

The Sharing Power- sustainable resource conference will commence in Whakatane on Wednesday January 12, 2011.    The conference will be hosted by Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa and Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in conjunction with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy.

December 31, 2010    Education, Social

Māori academic and leader dies suddenly

On December 30th 2010, Dr Mark Laws (Ngāti Awa, Tuwharetoa, and Te Arawa), associate professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, drowned while diving at the East Cape settlement of Te Kaha.

November 30, 2010    Education, Social, Treaty

Institute for Post Treaty Settlement Futures

Ngāti Awa treaty claim leader Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead has been appointed the inaugural professor of a new Institute for Post Treaty Settlement Futures.

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