All posts tagged Tertiary Education

Māori news stories for the week ending 31 August 2012

Tina Ngatai has been appointed General Manager of Ngāti Whakaue Tribal Lands Incorporated.  On Monday an application for bail for Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara (two of the Urewera four) was declined in the Court of Appeal, Wellington.  The men were seeking bail while they wait to have an appeal hearing against their convictions [...]

Māori news stories for the week ending 11 November, 2011: omnibus excerpt

Broadcaster Te Kauhoe Wano died last week. The Federation of Maori Authorities (FoMA) will hold its annual conference in Mount Maunganui on the 12- 13 November. Te Kōtahi Research Institute – Māori research institute has opened at Waikato University. Te Runanganui o te Pihopatanga of Aotearoa (the Maori Anglican Church) has rejected a proposed Anglican [...]

Mana Party: manifesto commitments: omnibus excerpt

Mana Party – Māori focused matters Despite its relative newness, the Mana Party has developed twelve broad policy platforms, all of which take into account specific Māori interests.  These policies, and salient features, are highlighted in the table that follows. Mana Party Notes – salient aspects of Māori-focused policy proposals Livelihoods and Economic Justice policies [...]

Māori Trade Training in Christchurch

  Canterbury Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT)  will be offering Māori Trade Training for 200 Māori youth living within Christchurch.   The trade positions have been funded by Te Puni Kōkiri, and it is expected that the 200 Māori students will be placed into trade training positions at CPIT before the end of the year.  The trade training [...]

May 18, 2011    Education, Rōpu Māori, Social

No Deputy Chief Executive role for the Tertiary Education Commission.

On Monday the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) Acting Chief Executive, Dr Colin Webb confirmed that the TEC Board has decided not to proceed with the appointment of a Deputy Chief Executive under the TEC restructure set to take effect from 1 June. 

May 4, 2011    Education, Rōpu Māori, Social

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa CEO recieves lifetime achievement award

During the Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Awards held on the 29th April, Chief Executive of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa - Bentham Ohia was presented with a lifetime achievement award for his significant contribution to education within the Waikato region

March 8, 2011    Education, Rōpu Māori, Social

Māori achievement initiative launched by Massey University

Te Rau Whakaara, is a new student-centred approach to accelerate Māori achievement at Massey  University.   Te Rau Whakaara  also known as the Accelerated Academic Advancement – or Triple A – programme, was developed by the Assistant Vice-Chancellor -Māori and Pasifika Professor Mason Durie;  its main goal is to increase the number of Māori students passing [...]

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