Huhana Mete



Huhana Mete “has taught at all levels of the education system. More recently she worked as a Personnel Consultant, specialising in sales and marketing. In 1991 Huhana began work in the Māori literacy field on contract to ETSA for TOP, MACCESS and school programmes. From 1991 to 1994 she worked for Te Huarahi Education Trust and then in 1994 initiated Tumanoko Enterprise, a national Māori educational management consultancy.”

Biographical sources

  • The Fourth Sector: Adult and Community Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ed. John Benseman, Brian Findsen, and Miriama Scott. Palmerston North, N.Z.: Dunmore, 1996. 393.

    Non-fiction

  • "Māori Literacy - The Local Reality." The Fourth Sector: Adult and Community Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ed. John Benseman, Brian Findsen, Miriama Scott. Palmerston North, N.Z.: Dunmore, 1996. 112-126.
  • A detailed history of the Te Huarahi Education Trust which was in existence from November 1991 until 1995. Mete writes of Māori literacy, the founding of Te Huarahi, emerging issues, teaching styles, staffing and management, the role of community support, funding problems, achievements, and lessons learnt.