Voxy Online, 12 May 2010

It has to be high praise when Prime Minister John Key uses Tairāwhiti Polytechnic’s Māori Visual Arts programme Toihoukura as an example of what the nation could aspire to.

He congratulated the polytechnic leaders on having the vision to help so many young people express themselves through art.

Polytechnic chief executive Judy Campbell said Toihoukura was the pinnacle of what the organisation offered in Māori art education, but there were other courses and programmes that were “just as great”, including the trades, nurses and viticulture. Read more…