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10 December 2003 Media Advisory

Briefing on key research

Education Minister Trevor Mallard and Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia will hold a media briefing tomorrow to outline new research into lifting Maori educational achievement.

The authors of the report Professor Russell Bishop, University of Waikato, and Mere Berryman, Poutama Pounamu Research and Development Centre, will be at the briefing to explain aspects of the research.

When: 1pm, Thursday 11 December
Where: 7.4, Beehive

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