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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 5. 3rd April 1974

'Although no formal qualification in Maori language is required this would be helpful.'

'Although no formal qualification in Maori language is required this would be helpful.'

Of what does a formal qualification in Maori language consist? In the eyes of the Education Department, obviously a pass in Maori at School Certificate, University Entrance, or at University. Hence, a formal qualification means one that is recognised by the pakeha educational system.

But it has never occurred to the Education Department that the Maori people do not necessarily judge fluency in their language by a formal pass in Maori Studies III? Or that university Maori may not be the Maori spoken by the majority of Maori people? Obviously a pakeha criterion.

It is interesting to note that by implication, a formal qualification in English is included in the above requirement. Obviously a pakeha criterion.