Tertiary education is important to Tokoroa, through Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Waiariki Institute of Technology.

Dr Nin believed that, by gaining tertiary status, Aotearoa Institute would earn recognition for its qualifications throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.

The same year ( 1989 ), Waipā Kōkiri Arts Centre changed its name to Aotearoa Institute and shortly afterwards became the first registered private training establishment ( under NZQA ) in the country.

In 1994, Aotearoa Institute changed its name to Te Wānanga o Aotearoa to reflect this change in status.

In addition to these, the faculty also includes the Liggins Institute, which conducts medical research, the Bioengineering Institute, Goodfellow ' Club ', Centre for Evidence Based Nursing Aotearoa, Advanced Clinical Skills Centre and two " support units ", Faculty Administration and Faculty Support Services.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand ( in Māori: Te Pirimia o Aotearoa ) is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand.

The Cabinet of New Zealand ( in Māori: Te Rūnanga o te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa ) functions as the policy and decision-making body of the executive branch within the New Zealand government system.

The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa ( Creative New Zealand ) ( previously the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council ) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally.

In Paper Reclaim Ltd v Aotearoa International it was held that exemplary damages are not to be awarded in actions for breach of contract but the Court left open the possibility that exemplary damages might be available where the breach of contract is a tort.

In New Zealand ( Aotearoa ), which is officially bi-cultural, multiculturalism has been seen as a threat to Maori, and possibly an attempt by the New Zealand Government to undermine Maori demands for self determination.

Aotearoa (, commonly mispronounced by English speakers ) is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand.

The original derivation of Aotearoa is not known for certain.

In pre-colonial times Maori were thought to not have a commonly-used name for the whole New Zealand archipelago, but in the 19th century, ' Aotearoa ' was used to refer both to the whole country, and to the North Island only.

It contained the dedication on the front page, " He perehi tenei mo nga iwi Māori, katoa, o Aotearoa, mete Waipounamu ", meaning " This is a publication for the Māori tribes of Aotearoa and the South Island.

The Land of the Long White Cloud " Aotearoa " is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.

" Two Aotearoa Sketches for Bassoon and Piano " are two pieces composed by bassoonist Michael Burns.

Until the early 20th Century, an alternative Māori name for the North Island was Aotearoa.

In present Māori usage, Aotearoa is a collective name for New Zealand as a whole.

Variants include, in order of migration, Havaii, the old name for Raiatea in French Polynesia ; the far better known Hawaii in the United States, Avaiki in the Cook Islands and Niue and Hawaiki in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Since The Māori Language Commission began a move in 2001 to " reclaim Matariki, or Aotearoa Pacific New Year, as an important focus for Māori language regeneration " it has increasingly become common practice for various private and public institutions to celebrate Matariki in a range of ways and over the period of a week or month anywhere from early June to late August

Mayor of Waitakere City Bob Harvey supported the call to make Matariki a public holiday to replace Queen's Birthday, along with the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand, which found none of New Zealand's local authorities held celebrations for Queen's Birthday, but many held celebrations for Matariki.

* Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment ( Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare Pāremata Aotearoa )

The 1990s saw more international growth for the IST as groups were founded in yet more countries including Austria, Cyprus, Spain, Aotearoa / New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and South Korea.

* Aotearoa, overture for orchestra ( 1940 )

* Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence in New Zealand

Fonterra was also the subject of Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand protests off the Port of Tauranga on 16 September 2009 and Port Taranaki on 5 February 2011, where Greenpeace activists invaded ships carrying palm kernel animal feed, destined for dairy farms.

* Allan Davidson, Christianity in Aotearoa: A History of Church and Society in New Zealand, Third edition, Education for Ministry, Wellington, 2004.

She was a candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party in the 1993 election and for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in the 1996 election.

* Dun Mihaka ( Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party ), a veteran Māori activist best known for baring his buttocks to the Queen on her 1983 Royal Tour of New Zealand.

In 1992, the General Synod of the church set up five hui amorangi, or regional bishoprics, to serve under the Bishop of Aotearoa.

Aotearoa is made up of five hui amorangi or regional bishoprics:

These iwi share a common ancestry from Polynesian migrants who arrived in New Zealand on the Tainui waka, which voyaged across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaiki to Aotearoa ( North Island ) approximately 800 years ago.

Tokoroa Talking Poles symposium is convened every two years at the Tokoroa campus of Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

During the 25 years since its foundation, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa has been catering for an increasingly more mature student group as the organisation ’ s reputation for delivering inclusive and engaging adult education has spread.

* " Te Wānanga o Aotearoa to celebrate 25 years " SCOOP

The Wai 262 claim, and the subsequent Ko Aotearoa Tenei report, is unusual in Tribunal terms because of its wide scope and the contemporary nature of the issues being grappled with.

As an affiliated college, it is privately owned and is run independently from the university, being governed by The Council of Knox College and Salmond College, a body with links to the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.

In a late 2010 article published on stuff. co. nz, Spirits Bay was named as one of the " Top 10 haunted spots in Aotearoa ", being suggested as possibly New Zealand's most famous spot for supernatural beings.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa was founded in 1983 to provide training and education for those whose needs were not being met by the mainstream education system.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is a tertiary education provider, specifically a wānanga, in New Zealand.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is currently one of the largest public tertiary education institutions in the nation and has been promoted as the largest indigenous peoples college in the world.

During the 1980s ( a time of high unemployment in Aotearoa New Zealand ), the kaupapa ( philosophy ) of the Waipā Kōkiri Arts Centre was to increase Māori participation in tertiary training by taking education to the people, particularly those without qualifications.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa experienced phenomenal growth during the early 2000s ( growing from 3, 127 students in 2000 to 66, 756 students in 2004 ) and quickly become the largest tertiary education institution in the country ; however, there was a price to pay for this rapid expansion.

In the modern context, wānanga retain their status as places of higher learning, sitting alongside universities and polytechnics as recognised tertiary institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand.

At a time when youth unemployment in Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming severe, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is introducing a range of new youth initiatives that will help rangatahi ( young people ) make the transition from an increasingly irrelevant secondary education system into the world of tertiary education.