17 Sep 2015

Maori Education Trust in trouble

From Te Manu Korihi, 5:24 pm on 17 September 2015

The Maori Education Trust has had to sell its only assets, its farms, putting at risk the grants it is required to make to Maori students. It has allocated education grants since 1961because of the generosity of a number of private bequests, but after a series of poor management decisions its financial position is weak. Our Maori Issues Correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes has more.