More Maoris, Islanders for nurse courses
PA Auckland The number of Maori and Pacific Island students accepted for Auckland Technical Institute comprehensive nursing courses will rise sharply next year. A Maori and Pacific Island liaison officer, Mr Jerry Norman, said that Polynesian students were expected to fill 10 per cent of the places instead of the previous 2 per cent. The increase would be one of the first practical results of the institute’s recently launched campaign to attract more Polynesian students, said Mr Norman. The over all target was to increase Polynesian enrolments 5 per cent a year for
three years, to reflect Auckland’s 15 per cent Maori and Pacific Island population. The head of nursing, Miss Yvonne Shadbolt, said that two live-in orientation curses organised during the year had resulted in highquality applicants for the course. It was important to have more Maori and Pacific Island nurses because a significant, number of patients came from those groups. Mr Norman said that orientation courses in journalism had also recruited more Maori and Pacific Island students. About 25 per cent enrolled in the journalism course were Polynesian.
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