New Zealand’s government has launched a $12.2-million programme to help teachers learn the Māori language and use it with their students in the classroom.
The programme is the first step in an ambitious national language strategy, announced in February, that aims to create a bilingual country with more than a million people speaking te reo Māori by 2040.
Kelvin Davis, associate education minister, announced details of the teacher training programme in the NZ parliament in Wellington on 15 April.
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