February 25th 2010
Tertiary Education Opportunities to Be Denied
Tertiary students are likely to face new barriers to gaining skills and qualifications under apparent plans by the new Tertiary Education Minister, says Maryan Street, Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson.
February 24th 2010
February 22nd 2010
Access to student loans vital to future of Pacific Island community
Access to tertiary education for Pacific Islanders will be adversely affected by any attempts to restrict access to student loans, Labour Associate Education spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni said.
February 22nd 2010
February 17th 2010
Solomon Island’s government to replace full scholarships with partial ones
The Ministry of Education in Solomon Islands is to replace full scholarships with partial scholarships for some students as a way to ease pressure on the government’s budget.
February 17th 2010
February 12th 2010
February 11th 2010
Tertiary Partnership to Benefit Pacific Communities
Pasifika communities in New Zealand and the Pacific are set to benefit from a partnership between two leading tertiary institutions from Auckland and Wellington.
February 10th 2010
February 8th 2010
Developing business skills
In 2009 Pacific Business Trust launched and recruited 100 students for their Te Wananga O Aotearoa Business training courses delivered at the Pacific Business Trust’s Head Office in Otahuhu.
January 19th 2010
New school standards ‘gut reaction’ politics
The Government is holding its ground on controversial national standards for primary schools, and on the first day of school next year the rules will be put into action. FETU TAMAPEAU looks at why teachers and education academics are resisting
January 15th 2010
ISSUE 36 EXCLUSIVE
Specifically Pasifika
IVAN TAVA of Career Services introduces you to a new section on the careers website that offers inspiration, education and encouragement.
January 13th 2010
Revival of traditional Maori games sought
A Northland teacher has lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal asking for traditional Maori sports to be formally introduced to the school curriculum.
January 11th 2010
Tonga tertiary institute hopes grant will develop education
The Free Wesleyan Church in Tonga says it hopes a government education grant will help develop its tertiary courses.
December 16th 2009
Phosphate Islanders Celebrate Brother and Sister Double Graduation
A Wellington brother and sister will celebrate their graduations from university over the next month, in a rare occasion for their small ethnic community
December 15th 2009
December 11th 2009
Call for driver training programmes for young Maori
A motoring editor wants the Government to invest in driver training programmes for young Maori, saying they are over-represented in the accident death rate.
December 10th 2009
December 10th 2009
December 9th 2009
December 3rd 2009
Iran pays for Solomon Island students to fly to Cuba
The Iranian government has paid the travel costs for 25 Solomon Islands students to fly to Cuba next week.
November 27th 2009
Raising Achievement for Pasifika Students
Education Minister Anne Tolley says the revised Pasifika Education Plan 2009-2012, which was launched today, will focus on raising achievement among Pasifika students.
November 27th 2009
Paula Bennett’s 'suck it up' advice to getting a job
A young person thinking of hanging around on the dole can forget about it on her watch, says Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett
November 26th 2009
Fine’s desire to help people
University of Canterbury student Fine Lavoni Koloamatangi studies towards a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws.
November 26th 2009
November 18th 2009
November 12th 2009
November 12th 2009
November 12th 2009
November 3rd 2009
Urewera Descendent Receives Art Scholarship
Kylie Tiuka says her Tuhoe tupuna (ancestors) were the inspiration for turning her love of art since childhood into formal study for a university degree. The Master of Maori Visual Arts student received a Te Waka Toi Karahipi scholarship earlier this year for a series of paintings from an exhibition entitled Whakahokia mai te mauri.
October 28th 2009
International students pump $160M into Hawaii
International students and their dependents spent $160 million in Hawaii during the last academic year.
October 28th 2009
Two more American Samoan schools to reopen after tsunami
Two more public elementary schools in American Samoa will reopen tomorrow following last month’s tsunami.
October 21st 2009
Fiji's students get state-funded bus fares
About 79,505 students from 490 schools around Fiji's Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Levuka, Taveuni and Rotuma, who travel by bus to school, should start receiving their state-funded bus fares from Wednesday.
October 21st 2009
Māori lecturer in international Hall of Fame
Waikato University senior lecturer Sandy Morrison is going to be inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
October 20th 2009
Porirua local makes her mark with BEST Design
“Walking on sunshine” is how Porirua local, Emily Pita describes her reaction to winning gold at this year’s BEST Design Awards. The Wellington Institute of Technology Interior Design student was recently honoured with New Zealand’s most prestigious design award in the Student Spatial Design category.
October 20th 2009
Foundation Professor of Pacific Studies appointed to AUT University
Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop has been appointed as the Foundation Professor of Pacific Studies at AUT University and takes up her role at the end of October.
October 15th 2009
Leadership initiative for Maori
An innovative leadership programme is looking to the past to help young Maori men become future leaders.
15th October 2009
EDUCATION
Reaching out online to Maori and Pacific engineers
Maori and Pacific engineers are being encouraged to become part of a global network with a new website launched as part of the 5th anniversary of the South Pacific Professional Engineering Excellence (SPPEEx).
October 13th 2009
ISSUE 34 EDUCATION ARTICLE
Delegation opens doors for MIT
MIT (Manukau Institute of Technology) were just one of the organisations to benefit from the Manukau City Council and New Zealand Pacific Business Trust’s recent trade delegation to Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
October 13th 2009
ISSUE 34 EDUCATION ARTICLE
Qualifications that benefit your community and your future
Whether you’re interested in gaining skills to enter the workforce, increasing your value as an employee, or a new career; New Zealand Career College can help you.
October 13th 2009
ISSUE 34 EDUCATION ARTICLE
Plan of Action
IVAN TAVA of Career Services has spent the past two issues of SPASIFIK getting you ready for the job market. With your employment toolkit almsot complete, he now shows you how to devise your own job search plan.
October 13th 2009
October 8th 2009
Waikato Uni research into the Māori way of death
A unique project at the University of Waikato to examine the Māori way of death has won a prestigious Marsden Fund grant, worth $950,000 over three years, in the Royal Society of New Zealand’s latest research funding round.
October 5th 2009
SPASIFIK intern: Fetu Tamapeau
Fetu Tamapeau is completing an internship with SPASIFIK during October; she hopes this experience will give her the skills to help change the face of the media.
