The teaching farm, once owned by the college and now leased by Taihape Area School.
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Taihape people established the teaching farm on 13 hectares next to Taihape College 30 years ago but the Ministry of Education has taken it and put it in the landbank for Treaty settlements, and the school can now only lease it.
The Ombudsman is looking at whether to investigate. It s very unfortunate. I think you could effectively say that the community asset has been stolen by the Education Ministry, Rangitīkei National MP Ian McKelvie said. And of course, it s gotten into the process now where it s very difficult to get it back from.
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Stuff. Maōri academics are lonely, isolated, and struggling to be heard, with many finding their way back to Māori studies departments, which while important, mean other disciplines lack mātauranga (Māori knowledge). “They really had their hearts broken finding there’s very little place for them.” The book – co-edited by University of Auckland Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora and released on February 12 – is a timely message of hope for the future, Ruru says. “It was extremely hard for us to be heard. It was a major miscommunication issue that could have been handled very differently if Māori had been involved right from the beginning.”
But National s education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says the proposed curriculum lacks balance. The themes are mainly about identity and identity politics. That s part of our story - but there are other elements to New Zealand s history, he says.
Questions such as how did we make a living as a country and grow to attain one of the highest living standards in the world don t feature prominently, he says, and deserve much more than a passing reference . New Zealand is also one the oldest democracies in the world, with strong traditions of freedom and the rule of law - which is rare in this world. How did those institutions develop? Again, this is not a central theme.
Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers
The Government has published all the ministers briefings on their portfolios. Photo / Supplied
Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 4:19PM
Racism in health, extremism in prisons, light rail in Auckland, coronavirus misinformation and an ongoing housing crisis are among the priorities outlined to incoming ministers in hundreds of pages of documents released this morning.
The Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIM) were released on the Beehive website at 10am.
The briefings are from officials on important and developing issues in their respective portfolios as well as previous work in key policy areas.