Ngahiwi Apanui's blog

    While most of the literature and discussion of teaching and learning in the Māori tertiary sector revolves around support for Māori learners and improved outcomes, my humble opinion is that there is also a need to provide support to Māori teachers.

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One of the first tasks I was handed when I started work at Ako Aotearoa in 2009 was to

2010 for me as Ako Aotearoa’s Kaihautū Māori was a year focused on a very important event - Tuia Te Ako.

The purpose of Tuia Te Ako is to discuss and debate issues of importance to Māori in the tertiary

How can Māori in tertiary education work with whānau, hapū, iwi and Māori groups to assist them to realise their aspirations?

Last Thursday, we briefed media on the inaugural Tuia Te Ako conference in Wellington. I have two overriding impressions from that event.

 

Tēnā tātau katoa. I thought I would mark my first blog entry and post to the website with a summary of the last 4 weeks in the job.  Strategic planning was important in the days of our tīpuna and remains even more so today.