New tech scholarships for Māori, Pasifika

New tech scholarships for Māori, Pasifika
Henry Burrell
Thirty-one new tech scholarships have been made available to Māori and Pacific people thanks to funding from career development company Mission Ready and Auckland Council’s Southern Initiative.The scholarships are open to people aged 16 to 40 and will begin in February. The 12- to 19-week accelerator courses are designed to provide candidates with employment in New Zealand technology businesses.Mission Ready director Diana Sharma told BusinessDesk the company’s programmes currently have an 80 percent success rate in doing this.&ldqu...

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