The persistent educational achievement gap and historically haphazard nature of progress for students in impoverished contexts in New Zealand primary schools is a deep-seated problem needing urgent attention. This multifaceted…
Ethnicity and Diversity
Assessing the impact of the withdrawal of Refugee Study Grants on refugee background students at tertiary institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: Angela Joe, Nick Wilson, Sara Kindon, and GEOG 404 Students, Victoria University of Wellington
Published: 2011-10-03
Education & Training Grants, Funding, Contracts & Fundraising Migrants and Former Refugees
Ethnicity and Diversity
An equitable education: Achieving equity status and measures to ensure equality for refugee-background tertiary students in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: ChangeMakers Refugee Forum; The New Zealand National Refugee Network; ESOL Assessment and Access Specialist Services; at Victoria University: Angela Joe, Sara Kindon & Postgraduate Students in Geography and Development Studies, Diana O'Rourke & The Empowering Study for Refugee-Background Students Research Team
Published: 2011-06-20
New Zealand is one of eleven countries that has been annually resettling refugees as part of the UNHCR refugee resettlement programme since the 1980s. Consequently, New Zealand’s refugee-background population continues…
Education & Training Migrants and Former Refugees
Ethnicity and Diversity
African Youth Health and Well-Being: Participatory Action Research Project
By: Evolve; Victoria University of Wellington
Published: 2005-10-03
This project aimed to strengthen the well-being of African Youth in Wellington by identifying issues they face, and developing strategies to address the issues. The project was implemented by Evolve,…
Action Research Health & Wellbeing
Ethnicity and Diversity
MEETING THE NEEDS AND CHALLENGES OF MIGRANTS AND FORMER REFUGEES IN THE NELSON AND TASMAN REGIONS
By: The Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research Victoria University of Wellington Colleen Ward with Jason Lescelius Amanda Jack Reneeta M. Naidu and Elizabeth Weinberg
Published: 2018-03-14
In pursuing their purpose of supporting migrants, former refugees, and people from minority ethnicities with their settlement processes, the Nelson Multicultural Council contracted the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research at…