Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 17, 2020 4:43:08 GMT 12
MEDICAL SCHOOLS BOOSTING MĀORI AND PASIFIKA NUMBERS
A four-fold increase in Māori and Pasifika studying medicine at Otago University has intensified competition for a dwindling number of places for other students.
In 2010, only about 10 per cent of medical students (not including international) at Otago were Māori or Pasifika.
Since then, more robust affirmative action policies have been introduced to make it easier for students from certain backgrounds to get into medical school. By 2016 Māori and Pasifika students took up 32 per cent of places offered to first year health sciences students.
This year, 79 Māori and Pasifika students, counting for 39 per cent of first year health sciences applicants, were accepted into first year medicine......
www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300013779/medical-schools-boosting-mori-and-pasifika-numbers
A four-fold increase in Māori and Pasifika studying medicine at Otago University has intensified competition for a dwindling number of places for other students.
In 2010, only about 10 per cent of medical students (not including international) at Otago were Māori or Pasifika.
Since then, more robust affirmative action policies have been introduced to make it easier for students from certain backgrounds to get into medical school. By 2016 Māori and Pasifika students took up 32 per cent of places offered to first year health sciences students.
This year, 79 Māori and Pasifika students, counting for 39 per cent of first year health sciences applicants, were accepted into first year medicine......
www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300013779/medical-schools-boosting-mori-and-pasifika-numbers