Maori success in education calls for celebration

Maori success in education is being celebrated as new research shows more are graduating from university – with more than half being the first in their immediate family to do so, writes Corazon Miller for NZ Herald.

The University of Otago study has revealed that nearly half of recent Maori graduates were the first among their immediate family, one third were parents and almost three-quarters were female. The findings are from the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand, an ongoing project that over a 10-year period is investigating the employment, health and social outcomes of more than 8,700 graduates from all eight universities in the country.

This latest research, which has come out of Otago's National Centre for Lifecourse Research and which was published in Higher Education Research and Development journal, used information from those in their final year of study in 2011. Lead author Dr Reremoana Theodore said it was a wonderful statement of Maori achievement.
Full report on the NZ Herald site