Professor Papaarangi Reid. (Photo supplied) David Seymour says ACT will campaign in the coming election to scrap admission programmes like MAPAS — Auckland University’s Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme to…
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…in her year. She was part of the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS), set up to help ensure New Zealand’s doctors would, bit by bit, reflect the ethnic mix…
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…career in medicine have had the chance of getting a hand from MAPAS at the University of Auckland’s School of Medicine. MAPAS is the Māori and Pacific Admissions Scheme which…
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…thought that I was a MAPAS student. I certainly applied to MAPAS and I’d thought that I was a MAPAS student for half my life. There were three of us…
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…towards medical school. I think I was the last one in the door. I was probably the lowest A-bursary they’d ever had. I got in on the MAPAS programme, which…
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…views about MAPAS, the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme, and being proud of being Māori isn’t the same as being impervious to the resentment and hatred of others. How could…
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…with Mum from the age of four. Luckily for me, there was the MAPAS system. That was the Māori and Pacific Admissions Scheme, that had been going since the late…
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…through MAPAS which provides some openings for students outside the mainstream to get into med school. But that hasn’t meant there are any concessions from there on in. MAPAS is…
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…MAPAS, the Māori and Pacific admissions scheme. Was that the stepping stone for you? I did the Certificate of Health Sciences at Auckland University in my first year before I…
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…pharmacy and nursing. One of the things David Seymour has pushed for is a review of MAPAS, the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme at Auckland’s medical school. We’ve yet to…
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…was the lead of the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) when I went through, always said to us MAPAS students: “Wait till you hit the wards. That’s when your…
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…that you went to med school as a Pasifika student on an affirmative action scheme — the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) — which was a way of helping…
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…leaned heavily on my support network, which included my family, and other students and staff from the university’s Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) for medical and health science students….
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…— Hazel Wanders Rangiaowhia: Voices from the embers * Dr Vanisi Prescott, once consigned to “the dumb class” at school, entered Auckland medical school through MAPAS, the Māori and Pacific…
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…place for Māori and Pasifika at times. I wonder how you felt on the first day? Yeah, it was daunting, but I was incredibly lucky to be part of MAPAS,…
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…article in a Mana magazine about the MAPAS programme — which is the Māori and Pacific admissions scheme at Auckland University’s medical school. She cut the article out and said…
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…look back on my academic career, there are many things we can be proud of. Our Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) students now make up over 30 percent of…
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…medicine through the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) at Auckland University. (Photo supplied) Well, E-Tangata is actually a descendant of Mana magazine. Yeah, I thought it must be. I…
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…her to the Kumeu Medical Clinic, where we met Dr Nathan Joseph. He’d spent many years at Te Puia Springs Hospital before coming to Kumeu. That’s the thing about MAPAS…
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Dr Sue Crengle. (Photo supplied) Suzanne Marie Crengle has more than made good of her childhood dreams of becoming a doctor. There was med school (1980–85), a stint as a…
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Winston Peters has tabled a bill that will remove diversity and inclusion policies from the Public Service Act, including the Public Service Commissioner’s duty to develop a workforce that reflects…
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Dr Timoti Te Moke (Photo: Stephen Tilley) Timoti Te Moke’s story is both harrowing and hopeful — he survived abuse, state care, gangs and prison, even an unsubstantiated manslaughter charge,…
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