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Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Learning reo Māori alongside tamariki

Tā moko artist and mum of two, Mikayla (Meke) Nikora was brought up speaking reo Māori but slowly lost the language after leaving kura kaupapa Māori and moving to Pākehā schooling.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Learning tikanga in the hopes of giving back to iwi

Through learning tikanga at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Walter Herewini hopes to give back to his marae and keep te ao Māori (the Māori worldview) alive and thriving.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Learning tikanga to strengthen community work

After making the move to Aotearoa in 2014 from Germany, Almaz Bergz set out to gain a better understanding of the people, whenua, and culture that shape life here.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Learning to lead prompts personal and professional development

Aucklander, Shauniece Edwards could not have imagined where life would take her when she decided to enrol in Intro to Team Leadership at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa early last year.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Learning Waka Ama led to an unexpected future

Discover how Matt Tauroa's journey with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa's Waka Ama course led to a passion for the sport and a new career. Learn about his experiences, from earning a day skipper qualification to starting his own paddle and accessories shop, Manaaki Made. Explore the positive impact of Waka Ama on his life and how Te Wānanga o Aotearoa supports Māori sports and education.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Long-term benefits of business study

It’s taken years of hard work and Alex credits his business studies with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa as providing the base from which the company has grown. “I learned everything about business from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa,” he says.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Lucy’s loving learning

She was once scared to try new things, but now Lucy Pearce could be a walking prospectus of programmes to study at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Mākereti Papakura, the first Indigenous woman to study at Oxford, to be awarded a posthumous degree

The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford has announced that pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura, will receive a posthumous degree more than 100 years after she began her studies.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Māori and Mandarin at Te Matatini

A Te Wānanga o Aotearoa librarian is taking Te Matatini Ki Te Ao (Te Matatini to the world) quite literally, and translating the final day of the kapa haka champs into Mandarin – the language spoken by about 1.2 billion people

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Māori business accelerator announces 2020 cohort

Kōkiri is pleased to announce the successful Māori-led start-ups invited to participate in the 2020 programme. Nine technology-focused start-ups from a wide range of industries such as legal services, digital language learning, agri-tech and power generation make up the new cohort.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Māori lens influences the switch from nursing to social work

Palmerston North local, Nicole Tipene, was working towards her nursing degree before making the switch to study a Bachelor of Bicultural Social Work at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

Home › Hononga › Pitopito kōrero o te wā › Māori musician's reo Māori journey leads to wānanga kaiako role

Jordyn Rapana, known as Jordyn With A Why, shares her inspiring journey of learning te reo Māori to raise her tamariki in a reo-speaking home. From immersion study to becoming a kaiako at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, discover how music, whānau, and culture shaped her path.