Academic defends quality of Māori and Pacific researchers work
An academic says the suggestion, that changing a major research fund to favour Māori and Pasifika academics will dilute it, is disgusting.
The $315 million-a-year Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) will now give matauranga Māori research a funding weighting of 3 - higher than the current 2.5 which applies to the most expensive sciences.
It is part of an effort by the government to tackle long-standing under-representation of Māori and Pacific researchers.
But Universities New Zealand chief executive Chris Whelan said he wanted a dedicated fund devoted to Māori and Pasifika research instead.
Māori and Pasifika research needs its own dedicated funding - Universities NZ
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