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
Day: March 24, 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
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,
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.