Mātauranga Māori resources in category: Māori student participation and achievement

Improving student completion, retention, and achievement in science modules in applied health programmes, with particular attention to Māori.

Māori and Pasifika women’s transitions from secondary school to tertiary education or employment in 2008-2009.

This report from the Department of Labour focuses on the transition from secondary school to further education or training and work for rurally disadvantaged Māori youth.

A report for the New Zealand Psychologists' Board.

An investigation, from 2002, of 72 undergraduate students from Massey University and the correlation between cultural identity and academic achievement.

The annual monitoring report by the Ministry of Education shows that Māori are enjoying success at higher levels.

(image: Dr Peter Coolbear, Ako Aotearoa Director, with Hon Dr Pita Sharples, and Hei Tauira authors Janinka Greenwood and Lynne-Harata Te Aika)

This report revisits and updates Te whai i nga taumata atakura – supporting Māori achievement in bachelor degrees.

A trends analysis for Māori in tertiary education.

Māori involvement in higher education had its origins in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since then there have been progressively higher rates of participation.

This paper given at the 2005 conference of the Higher Education, Research & Development Society (HERDSA) focuses on bridging programmes for Māori and Pasifika students in polytechnics.

In this summary of the fourth Hui Taumata Mātauranga it is affirmed that the hui has greatly added to our knowledge of opportunities and obstacles that impact on success. Five themes have emerged from the three generations who have added focus and sense to the debates success - these have been identified and discussed as the relationships for learning, enthusiasm for learning, preparing balanced outcomes for learning, preparing for the future, and being Māori.

This website is a project that addresses Māori achievement in Tertiary Education. It demonstrates what Māori success looks and feels like inside tertiary providers within Auckland.

This unpublished PhD thesis from 2001 by Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai from the University of Waikato focuses on Tainui graduates from the University of Waikato between 1992 to 1997.

This fact sheet highlights the key findings about retention, completion and progression of Māori students in formal tertiary education in the period from 1998 to 2002. The findings are taken from the Ministry report – Retention, Completion and Progression in Tertiary Education 2003.

This Ministry of Education fact sheet includes important characteristics of Māori students.  

This research investigates issues that inhibit Māori from engaging in tertiary studies and  presents learnings that were informed by the research.

This paper published by the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (Winhec) explores what Māori require by way of quality in higher education.

This 2002 report, prepared by Te Puni Kokiri and the Industry Training Federation, focuses on building relationships between Māori organisations and Industry Training Organisations (ITOs).

The focus of this 2006 research was on the ways in which non-lecture teaching and learning helps or hinders Māori and Pasifika students' success in preparing for, or completing, degree-level studies.