Pacific Peoples

The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.

Pacific Peoples includes Pasifika/Pacific Peoples’ knowledge and perspectives, educational achievement for Pacific Peoples, supporting Pacific learners, and supporting Pacific staff.

Most Recent Resources about Pacific Peoples

Pasifika Students: supporting academic success through the provision of mentoring

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This project identifies the success factors that help promote Pasifika student academic success from the perspectives of those most directly involved in the mentoring process - Pasifika students and their lecturers, and the Pasifika mentors themselves.

Culturally relevant peer support for Māori and Pasifika student engagement, retention and success

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A programme of culturally relevant peer support was trialled with first-year Māori and Pasifika students studying in degree and diploma programmes at the Open Polytechnic.

Designing for diversity

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Part of the Ministry of Education's Effective practice for e-learning series

Pasifika Tertiary Education Students by Ethnicity

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This fact sheet presents information on the ethnicities of New Zealand’s Pasifika tertiary education students. It shows the trends in participation in tertiary study by Pasifika ethnicity: what qualifications Pasifika students are taking, where they are studying, their field of study, their ages, and other important characteristics of Pasifika students.