Matauranga Strategy - Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated

The Flaxmere Project
• A central focus of this project is providing assistance to children and their families in the
home. This is the main role of the HSLP’s. While this is an excellent idea, the focus on
homes must also be balanced by an assurance from schools that their programmes, the
curriculum that they offer and their measurements of success are relevant to these children
and their families. Not to do so would simply render an otherwise admirable project, a
deficit model.
Recommendation
It is recommended that, in association with NKII, the Ministry of Education develop a zero
tolerance strategy in respect of secondary school suspensions, attrition rates and exiting school
without a meaningful qualification.
Tertiary education
Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)
• In Ngäti Kahungunu, EIT is the single largest tertiary provider. In 2002 the participation of
Mäori mirror several national trends where women consitute the majority of the Mäori
student population and Mäori are less likely to be located in the sciences, compared to
education related fields.
• More information is required regarding levels of participation, qualifications attained, success
rates, graduations, destination, retention and attrition.
Te Wänanga Whare Tapere o Takitimu - Takitimu Performing Arts
School
• Established approximately 20 years ago as the first modern Mäori centred tertiary education
provider in Ngäti Kahungunu, Te Wänanga Whare Täpere o Täkitimu has since that time
established multiple partnership arrangements across several distinct groups. The wänanga
has a major focus on the performing arts.
• Other iwi partnerships are pending and await ratification to provide Mäori Performing Arts
qualifications.
Other tertiary institutions
• At least five other tertiary institutions offer local-based courses within Ngäti Kahungunu,
representing both mainstream universities (Massey, Victoria, Waikato universities) and
whare wänanga (Raukawa and Aotearoa)
• More information is required regarding levels of Ngäti Kahungunu participation rates in
institutions outside of Ngäti Kahungunu
Hapu, Iwi Initiatives
• Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga hold quarterly wänanga at each marae in turn within the rohe.
Underpinning this approach is the enhancement of inter-whanau/hapu relationships.
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