SPANZ Day 2: Keynote address - Dr Damon Salesa: Sailing after the storm. Education in the wake of COVID-19.
Toeolesulusulu Damon Ieremia Salesa is the first Pacific vice chancellor at a New Zealand university, at Auckland University of Technology. What New Zealand needs to have learned from COVID-19. What we need to be better at. An unequal storm COVID amplified inequalities in housing, income and wealth Had a particular effect on Auckland families on Māori and Pasifika The impact will endure after COVID is normalised, particularly in education Education as a nexus of the challenge: a place where exisiting inequalities can be concretised or addressed But education was already one of the most unequal and racialised dimensions of NZ life We already had a schooling system that furthers the disadvantaged poor and brown students Inclusivity and Universities NZ universities have been places were privilege has been credentialised and further advantaged A large proportion of quality, lifelong and well paid jobs are accessed through a university education Universities are built on a...