Promoting the Educational Advancement of Māori
In the present environment, many younger Māori are missing out on education, training and development opportunities simply because, in a learning sense, they never leave first base.
It remains a disturbing fact that roughly half of all Māori students leave school with no formal qualification of any kind. A distressingly small percentage of Māori students progress to tertiary education. The ‘long, brown tail’ of underachievement still shame-fully characterises our education system.
Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust has focused its priorities on two key areas:
- higher levels of educational achievement amongst Māori; and
- higher levels of workforce participation by Māori in middle and senior management in key sectors of the economy.
Priority a. requires the Trust to find innovative solutions to lift Māori achievement levels in education. These projects will be:
- able to accelerate the development of practical solutions in the areas of Māori educational achievement;
- innovative, sustainable and transferable;
- leverage off other programmes and other forms of funding;
- of a suitable scale with the potential to result in high social and economic impacts; and
- demonstrate linkages with communities, industry stakeholders and other relevant organizations and groups.
