title: Monitoring first year Maori students enrolled in selected Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences courses: A report prepared for the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

authors: Levy, Michelle Patricia

subjects: maori students

abstract: Monitoring first year Maori Students Enrolled in Selected Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences Courses. The total number of Maori students targeted by this project was 182, representing 93% of the total number of Maori students enrolled in Semester B level one courses. The majority of students participating in this initiative were first year students, although a small number of students taking 100 level courses were second, third or graduate year students. 11 Student views on the monitoring and support initiative Students were provided with the opportunity to comment on the monitoring and support initiative. All students contacted (49) recommended that this intervention continue for future first year Maori students enrolled in FASS.

text: Monitoring first year Maori students enrolled in selected Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences courses: A report prepared for the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Monitoring first year Maori Students Enrolled in Selected Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences Courses. The total number of Maori students targeted by this project was 182, representing 93% of the total number of Maori students enrolled in Semester B level one courses. The majority of students participating in this initiative were first year students, although a small number of students taking 100 level courses were second, third or graduate year students. 11 Student views on the monitoring and support initiative Students were provided with the opportunity to comment on the monitoring and support initiative. All students contacted (49) recommended that this intervention continue for future first year Maori students enrolled in FASS.

year: 2003-03-01

title: Maori seeking self-determination or Tino Rangatiratanga? A note

authors: Toki, Valmaine

abstract: Dr Nin Tomas wrote a considered and substantial piece entitled “Indigenous Peoples and the Māori: The Right to Self-Determination in International Law - From Woe to Go” for the New Zealand Law Review published in 2008.² In her conclusion she notes two ways in which self-determination has been implemented by the state: first, by “greater tolerance and benevolence along a series of principled guidelines”,³ and, second, as a “peoples-centred, enabling principle that allows Indigenous peoples to re-establish their social, economic and political institutions”.⁴
In 2010, New Zealand reversed its position and supported the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration).5 With this in mind, this short piece revisits the notion of self-determination by examining the differing dynamics of concepts of external and internal self-determination before a short discussion on pluralism and the relationship between tino rangatiratanga and self-determination. In conclusion some thoughts are offered on a potential form of self-determination that could be consistent with the exercise of tino rangatiratanga.

text: Maori seeking self-determination or Tino Rangatiratanga? A note Dr Nin Tomas wrote a considered and substantial piece entitled “Indigenous Peoples and the Māori: The Right to Self-Determination in International Law - From Woe to Go” for the New Zealand Law Review published in 2008.² In her conclusion she notes two ways in which self-determination has been implemented by the state: first, by “greater tolerance and benevolence along a series of principled guidelines”,³ and, second, as a “peoples-centred, enabling principle that allows Indigenous peoples to re-establish their social, economic and political institutions”.⁴
In 2010, New Zealand reversed its position and supported the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration).5 With this in mind, this short piece revisits the notion of self-determination by examining the differing dynamics of concepts of external and internal self-determination before a short discussion on pluralism and the relationship between tino rangatiratanga and self-determination. In conclusion some thoughts are offered on a potential form of self-determination that could be consistent with the exercise of tino rangatiratanga.

year: 2017

title: Adaptive online domain incremental continual learning

authors: Gunasekara, Nuwan Amila

subjects: computer science

abstract: Continual Learning (CL) problems pose significant challenges for Neural Network (NN)s. Online Domain Incremental Continual Learning (ODI-CL) refers to situations where the data distribution may change from one task to another. These changes can severely affect the learned model, focusing too much on previous data and failing to properly learn and represent new concepts. Conversely, if a model constantly forgets previously learned knowledge, it may be deemed too unstable and unsuitable. This work proposes Online Domain Incremental Pool (ODIP), a novel method to cope with catastrophic forgetting. ODIP also employs automatic concept drift detection and does not require task ids during training. ODIP maintains a pool of learners, freezing and storing the best one after training on each task. An additional Task Predictor (TP) is trained to select the most appropriate NN from the frozen pool for prediction. We compare ODIP against regularization methods and observe that it yields competitive predictive performance.

text: Adaptive online domain incremental continual learning Continual Learning (CL) problems pose significant challenges for Neural Network (NN)s. Online Domain Incremental Continual Learning (ODI-CL) refers to situations where the data distribution may change from one task to another. These changes can severely affect the learned model, focusing too much on previous data and failing to properly learn and represent new concepts. Conversely, if a model constantly forgets previously learned knowledge, it may be deemed too unstable and unsuitable. This work proposes Online Domain Incremental Pool (ODIP), a novel method to cope with catastrophic forgetting. ODIP also employs automatic concept drift detection and does not require task ids during training. ODIP maintains a pool of learners, freezing and storing the best one after training on each task. An additional Task Predictor (TP) is trained to select the most appropriate NN from the frozen pool for prediction. We compare ODIP against regularization methods and observe that it yields competitive predictive performance.

year: 2022