May 24th 2013
NorthTec students gold and silver at National Council of Maori Student Nurses Hui
NorthTec student nurses scored big at the recent annual National Council of Student Māori Nurses Hui in Nelson, with Kaitaia’s Caroline Snowden winning gold and Whangarei’s Aniwaniwa Mahanga taking out silver for their exemplar presentations.
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May 23rd 2013
ISSUE 56 EXCLUSIVE
Te Wananga home for this Ranger
The culmination of hard work, attending lectures and cramming for exams paid off for over 100 students graduating from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Opotiki campus in April this year. For class Valedictorian James Hemi Barsdell it was the opportunity of a lifetime as he celebrated with whanau and friends at a special graduation ceremony at the Omarumutu Marae.
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May 22nd 2013
Significant scholarships for Maori students
Three University of Waikato students have been awarded Ngārimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarships for 2013. They're undergraduate students Kiharoa Milroy and Te Rina Popata and doctoral student Curtis Bristowe.
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May 20th 2013
Paving the way for female Maori graduates
Miria Royal doesn’t see herself as a trail blazer for Māori women but, as the first Māori female to be accepted into Vodafone’s Graduate Technology Programme, it’s a concept the Victoria University graduate is getting used to.
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May 13th 2013
Expansion of Maori and Pasifika trades training announced
A major expansion of Maori and Pasifika Trades Training to 3,000 places as part of Budget 2013 was announced this week (May 9) by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce, and Associate Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Tariana Turia.
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May 8th 2013
Big Apple beckons University of Waikato scholar
University of Waikato Fulbright Scholar Lora Vaioleti is heading to New York City to work with a global partnership dedicated to helping island leaders work together on climate change, conservation and progress towards a sustainable future.
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April 24th 2013
Pacific Bridge Back Project
Undergraduate student, TJ Aumua, is currently studying a Bachelor of Communications at AUT University of Technology. She shares with SPASIFIK her story about the Pacific Bridge Back Project, a programme that aims to encourage troubled Pacific youth to get back into school.
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March 28th 2013
Solomon Islands student receives MFAT scholarship for academic excellence
University of Waikato student Sireta Laore, from the Solomon Islands, has been awarded the New Zealand Development Pacific Scholarship for Highest Academic Achiever in 2012 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).
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March 18th 2013
View into the Otara Window
Walk through the Otara Town Centre and you may become aware of a transformation taking place. As part of a partnership between Manukau Institute of Technology and the Otara Business Association, work is underway to revitalise the run down town centre.
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March 8th 2013
From West Side Story to The Factory
With her operatic training beginning at the age of two, dance classes at seven and acting at 15, Milly Grant has always been destined for a career in the performing arts. The Otara resident has the starring role in The Factory, New Zealand’s first Pasifika musical now showing at Auckland's Q Theatre.
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March 7th 2013
Public schools in Hawaii receive $1M in grants
Hawaii's state Department of Education has given US$1 million in one-time grants to 32 local schools as part of the “Strive HI” campaign, which rewards and supports public schools who have shown progress in academic performance and in meeting annual progress goals tied to the No Child Left Behind Act.
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February 18th 2013
Benefits of early childhood education to Pacific families
Pacific Island Affairs and Education Minister Hekia Parata welcomed the first of a series of local workshops to inform Pacific families of the benefits of early childhood education (ECE) in Auckland.
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February 13th 2013
Maori scholar to share knowledge of school communities in the US
Māori scholar Dr Melinda Webber (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hau) from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education will share her unique knowledge of Aotearoa school communities with American counterparts at the University of Wisconsin– Green Bay later this month, with the help of a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Travel Award.
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February 12th 2013
Former Tongan Prime Minister awarded UC Honorary Doctorate
Former Tongan Prime Minister Dr Feleti Sevele (Lord Sevele of Vailahi), leading New Zealand artist Bill Culbert and Supreme Court Judge Sir William Young are to be awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Canterbury (UC) in April.
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February 5th 2013
Commonwealth announces finalists for youth awards in development work
The Commonwealth has announced the finalists of the Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work. The 16 finalists will each receive a £1,000 grant to advance their development work.
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February 1st 2013
Calls for applications- Pacific Writer's Residency
Fulbright New Zealand and Creative New Zealand invite applications for the 2013 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency, which offers a New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage the opportunity to work for three months on a creative writing project.
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February 1st 2013
Minister celebrates with Porirua Pasifika community to raise Pasifika achievement
The Government’s Pasifika Education Plan 2013-2017 has been received by the Porirua Pasifika community as the Government continues its focus on raising achievement for five-out-of-five kids.
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February 1st 2013
Pacific students ready to step into the trades
A unique partnership between tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and Pacific churches has seen hundreds of Pacific people trained to help in the Christchurch rebuild, says Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Hekia Parata.
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