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Just 1% of politics education in New Zealand is focused on the Māori dimension, new research has found. How can the country discuss Te Tiriti o Waitangi when very few understand it?
The true value of tenure goes beyond protection of the individual. It protects society from ideologically motivated restructuring as an alternative to poor performance management.
Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.
The government’s COVID policy for schools needs to shift from insisting on attendance to supporting the well-being of children, staff and families wherever they are.
Kaupapa Maori and Maori education pedagogyAuthor informationResource primary author: Auckland College of Education Content informationContent Description: This literature review provides an overview of Kaupapa Maori principles and practices, which form the basis for Maori educational pedagogy.
Submissions from students and parents to a select committee inquiry suggest the student accommodation sector is overdue for tougher regulation.
Several Māori staff at Auckland's Unitec resigned last month.
Discrimination against Indigenous students and teaching staff ‘deeply ingrained’ and endemic
Ranking students by academic performance has been condemned as discriminatory and racist, yet New Zealand still leaves it up to individual schools to decide.
Increase your awareness and understanding of Māori knowledge, values, and learning/teaching methodologies, and how you can apply these to your teaching context.
Overseas inquiries to AUT University have almost doubled since the pandemic started.
Massey researchers set to challenge shake-up that could see dozens of jobs lost.
More than 6500 students unable to come to New Zealand due to travel ban.
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Otago University has followed Massey in aspiring to be a “Tiriti-led” institution. But this implies being on the Crown side of the partnership – which is not where a university should be.
The fortunes of Te Pūkenga, the country’s new merged mega polytech, are in dire straits before the organisation has even properly begun functioning.
The government’s COVID policy for schools needs to shift from insisting on attendance to supporting the well-being of children, staff and families wherever they are.
When I look back on my academic career, there are many things we can be proud of. Our Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) students now make up over 30 percent of the medical intake on a yearly basis. Our students are excelling despite many of them coming from environments of poverty and social exclusion. We have a pipeline of tertiary academic success that is evidence-based and world-leading. We teach Māori health in a way that allows students to see and understand the role of racism and privilege as basic determinants of ethnic health inequities. Our research is positioned within a Māori worldview that promotes innovative kaupapa Māori epidemiology and qualitative methods.
For all of this, I’m grateful.
I’m less grateful for the lack of progress for Māori (and gender) equity in university promotion processes. These still allow for white male overrepresentation at professor and associate professor level, despite a stated commitment to equity and Māori te Tiriti rights.
And there remain the expectations for Māori service — which is frequently undervalued, yet is pivotal to achieving the equity successes that we’re seeing.
Those of us who fill the academy spaces with our Māori presence, despite these spaces often being unsafe and potentially harmful, often grapple with this tension. We’re always mindful of that service — it’s what keeps us going — because we know that our presence here makes a difference to those following in our footsteps.
But there is a personal toll too, and that will continue as long as the university remains a place where Māori experiences are kept at the margins — rather than at the centre where they belong.
Opinion: Professor Tim Hazledine reflects on what he believes is wrong with modern New Zealand universities
Kiwi school kids are not consistently taught letter formation or spelling the way they once were. But these simple skills are part of the foundations of higher learning.
All New Zealand schools will have free access to sanitary products from June, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday, an initiative aimed at stamping out period poverty in the country.
Tucked away on the wild west coast sits a school with 11 students, where the principal shares an office with the library and reception.
High school students will be given a Facebook-like profile for online learning.
Talking Teaching - is the name of New Zealand’s biggest tertiary teaching conference, run at the end of each year for tertiary teachers by the Ako Aotearoa Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence - tertiary teachers who are recipients of the Ako Aotearoa National Teaching Excellence Awards. We have adopted the name for this site as a response to experiences with remote teaching bought on by the Covid19 pandemic.
While many will soon resume some form of on-campus teaching, we live in uncertain times. Some will return only to find themselves teaching duplicate courses - remote and on-campus. Others will be unable to return for personal health reasons. And we may be required to shift to forms of remote teaching once again at short notice.
Households with no internet options could be supplied satellite coverage.
All four of the living Spotswood College former and current principals all have one thing in common - they can't let go of the school they love.
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