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General Items and Māori News for the Week Ending 24 March 2016 (9/2016)

  Auckland University, UNITEC, the Auckland University of Technology and Victoria University of Wellington are developing specific Māori-focused teaching resources within the architectural and engineering fields.  The two-year Te Whaihanga project is being funded by a $150,000 grant from Ako Aotearoa. This week Ngāti Pāoa has expressed public concern that
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Education Social

Māori Tertiary Education – Report on Māori Staffing Released – 24 March 2016 (9/2016)

  Last week the Tertiary Education Union released a report entitled, Project Whitestreaming: A report on the generalising of Māori specialist staff positions in the tertiary education sector (34 pages).  Whitestreaming was defined as the replacement of specialist Māori roles with generalist roles. The report focuses on perceptions of changes to
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Government

Better Public Services Data – Māori Results Analysis – 24 March 2016 (9/2016)

  Last week the Deputy Prime Minister, Bill English, and the Minister for State Services, Paula Bennett, announced the release of new data tracking the progress of the ten Better Public Services (BPS) goals. [By way of background these goals (also called ‘challenges’) were established as whole-of-Government priorities in 2012,
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Economic Fisheries

Kermandec Ocean Sanctuary – Legal Challenge – 24 March 16 (9/2016)

  Last week the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill was read for a first time in Parliament, and referred on to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee (after passing the first reading vote).  This Bill, if enacted, will create a 620,000 square kilometre marine reserve north-east of New Zealand (i.e.