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Published: 30 November, 2018
Māori Education Trust
Tēnā koe.
The Māori Education Trust 2019 Scholarship Programme is open and offers scholarships to Māori secondary school and tertiary students who meet the respective scholarship’s criteria.
The 2019 Tertiary Scholarship Programme is made up of the following scholarships:
Undergraduate
- Frances Irwin Hunt Art Scholarship
- Nicholas Irwin Hunt Writing Scholarship
- Norman Kirk Memorial Scholarship
- Rose Hellaby Bursaries Scholarship
- Roy Watling Mitchell Bursaries Scholarship
- Sir Apirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship
- Sister Annie Henry Scholarship
- Tī Maru Māori Trust Scholarship
Postgraduate
- Eric Hall McCormick Scholarship
- Pae Tawhiti Scholarship (to open early 2019)
- Queen Elizabeth II Postgraduate Fellowship
- Rangiriri and Mātene Te Whiwhi Winiata Scholarship
- Rose Hellaby Postgraduate Scholarship
- Roy Watling Mitchell Prestigious Professions Scholarship
- Tī Maru Māori Trust Prestigious Scholarship
Certificates, National Certificates and Diplomas:
- Regina Rudland Memorial Scholarship
We will be adding new tertiary scholarships to our site next week.
We would appreciate it if you would pass the attached flyer to your staff, students, and those within your community who would benefit from a scholarship.
While applicants are encouraged to apply on-line at www.maorieducation.org.nz, applicants can download an application form and guideline from the site, or contact us and we will forward copies by email or post.
If you would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact the office on 04 586 7971,
text: 027 262 8046, or email: info@maorieducation.org.nz.
2019 Tertiary Scholarship Flyer - (295 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file) »
Published: 29 November, 2018
Picton Dublin Street Notification
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Published: 26 November, 2018
Tū Pono: Whānau Ora Campaign Comes to Waikawa Marae
Tū Pono: Whānau Ora Campaign Comes to Waikawa Marae
Tū Pono ki Te Tau Ihu community project team has called a hui at Waikawa Marae on Wednesday 28 November at 3.30pm to support local whānau in their efforts to eliminate violence.
Commencing in 2016 at Te Hora Marae in Canvastown, this builds on a series of five hui held across Te Tau Ihu; and 22 hui across the South Island. Other hui in the top of the South have been held at Te Āwhina Marae in Motueka, Whakatū Marae in Nelson and Omaka Pa in Blenheim.
A feature of these hui has been presentations by Tā Mark Solomon former Kaiwhakahaere of Ngāi Tahu and Dame Hon Tariana Turia former Minister for Whānau Ora.
Dr Richard Hunter project manager for Tū Pono ki Te Tauihu o Te Waka a Māui says “the aim of the Tū Pono approach is to dispel the notion that violence and all forms of harmful behaviour within whānau should be accepted as normal or traditional Māori behaviour.”
“Having the support of nationally respected leaders such as Tā Mark and Whaea Tariana gives whānau the confidence that our iwi leaders are promoting the changes in behaviour needed to protect our mothers and children” he added.
This desire to challenge the normalisation of violence within whānau led to the development of Tū Pono: Te Mana Kaha o te Whānau. Designed and led by whānau, the approach has gained momentum in Te Waipounamu through support from Whānau Ora commissioning agency Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu who work with key influencers within whānau and communities to lead the campaign.
“We must be the solutions we need for the challenges that face us. Tū Pono: Te Mana Kaha o te Whānau is about us and our collective knowledge, strength and power. Together we create the wave of change.” stated Helen Leahy, Pouarahi / Chief Executive of Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu.
The objective of Tū Pono is to create safe places and safe spaces for whānau to strategise ways to eliminate family violence at a local level.
“By engaging at a local level the hope is that we’re able to develop authentic and trusting relationships where we can have the hard conversations. Ultimately Tū Pono is about dispelling any illusions that violence is acceptable – our message is that it never was acceptable and it never will be” says Dr Hunter.
Whānau hui have been carried out all over the South Island introducing whānau, hapū and iwi to the Tū Pono strategy which is aimed at creating inter-generational change to empower whānau to be in a position where they can make changes.
The kuia, Mereana Moki Kiwa Hutchen (Aunty Kiwa) has played a huge role in the development of the Tū Pono strategy and has said that “Māori should never accept violence as we come from rangatira and are a noble people, we have rich solutions within our culture, our reo, our waiata, our whakataukī. We are the living breath of our tūpuna".
Link to news release: http://www.teputahitanga.org/media-releases/waikawamarae
Published: 20 November, 2018
Tōtaranui and Kura Te Au Mapping
Tēnā koutou e te whānau o Te Ātiawa,
You may have heard about the project that was recently carried out by NIWA which successfully mapped the entire seafloor of Tōtaranui and Kura Te Au: https://marlborough.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=155a89b0beb74035bd1c4c71f6f36646
As a result of the mapping project, new details about the structure of the seafloor have become publicly available. What this means, is there is now an opportunity to name some of these recently discovered features.
The Te Ātiawa Trust is looking to lodge an application with the NZ Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) and is seeking interest from whānau who may like to contribute to this process that will ultimately be assessed and acted on by the Te Ātiawa Trust Board.
The NZGB will meet in March/April of next year to discuss proposals for new names.
If you wish to follow your own path, as a Te Ātiawa Iwi member and kaitiaki of the Rohe, you are entitled to make your own individual application.
What features can be named?
Many different types of underwater features can be named including canyons, hills, holes, reefs, sills, valleys, troughs, terraces and more.
What is Required?
• A complete ‘Undersea name proposal form’ and ‘Required information checklist’
• Description of the underwater feature including its type and geographic location.
• Information on the history/origin/meaning of the name as well as any additional notes.
The process for naming underwater features and the required forms are available on the LINZ website at https://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/propose-place-name/proposing-undersea-feature-name
For more information or to get in touch with the Rohe Management Office about this process please contact Sylvie on 03 573 5170 / 0800 284 292 or email rc@teatiawatrust.co.nz
Nāku noa, nā
Sylvie Heard
Rohe Management Officer
Te Ᾱtiawa Manawhenua Ki Te Tau Ihu Trust
Letter to Whanau Re Underwater Feature Naming - (259 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file) »
Published: 19 November, 2018
Bachelor of Applied Counselling at MIT Learning that fits around your work and lifestyle.
Tena Koe/Hello.
Have you people working with you who support people very well and might want to consider becoming a counsellor. Would you please make available to your staff and to visitors to your agency the attached flyer and extra information for our online (plus 3, one week long, residential courses (each year) for the degree programme the Bachelor of Applied Counselling. What is exciting is that students enrolled in this programme will be able to continue to do some WORK to support their families and to choose the hours when they complete their on-line study.
What is even more exciting is that a person’s life experiences and their passion to support people, may provide all the background that is needed to successfully complete this programme. Age is not abarrier. Our youngest student is 18 and our oldest is 68!
The programme can be fulltime for 3 years or part time for 6 years. If you don’t want to do the full degree you can select courses from the degree and gain a Certificate of Proficiency in that course.
The teaching team members are ethnically diverse with a wide range of professional experiences.
This programme currently is eligible for a Student Loan and for some people allowances - or if the Coalition Government has its way, first time tertiary students study will be FREE!
WHAT TO DO NOW?
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and get enrolled at www.manukau.ac.nz
Then, choose STUDY then SOCIAL SERVICES then COUNSELLING
NHS095 02 Flyer Counselling V2J2 - (196 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file) »