Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 1. 1967.
Maori Students
Maori Students
NZSPA Reporter
Wellington: Of 3808 students who entered university in 1965 only 40 were Maoris, reports the Maori Education Foundation.
The chairman of the foundation (Mr. D. G. Ball) attributes the lack of Maori success academically to the differing cultures In New Zealand, rather than to the limitations of low social status and economic conditions.
The Maori child's intelligence was not in question, he said, but rather the ignoring of his culture by Europeans, which caused him to lose heart.