2008
NZEALS International Educational Leadership Conference
- Ms Karen Sewell • Guest
Speaker
Secretary of Education and Chief, Executive
of the Ministry of Education
Karen has an extensive background in
education. Before being appointed as
the current Secretary for Education
and CEO for the Ministry of Education,
Karen was the chief executive for the
Education Review Office and acting chief
executive for the New Zealand Qualifications
Authority. Karen is also a former secondary
school teacher, head of department and
principal.
- Patrick Snedden • Guest
Speaker
Patrick Snedden is a 53 year old Pakeha
who began his professional life in publishing
after graduating in 1979 from Auckland
University in accounting, economics
and anthropology. He has been self-employed
since 1984 and acts as a business adviser
for Health Care Aotearoa, a primary
care network of Maori, Pacific Island
and community groups within the not-for-profit
health sector. Since 1982 he has worked
as an economic adviser to the Ngati
Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board and
he is part of their Treaty negotiation
team.
For many years he has been a corporate
director and was a founding director
of Mai FM, this country’s first
Maori commercial radio station. He
now has roles in public sector governance
most recently standing down as chair
of Counties Manukau District Health
Board. Currently he chairs the Housing
New Zealand Corporation and the Auckland
District Health Board along with the
Quality Improvement Committee responsible
for quality and safety in hospitals.
He is also a director on Watercare
Services, a wastewater and water company
for Auckland. He is also deputy-Chair
of the ASB Community Trusts, the region’s
philanthropic trust.
In 2006 his new book, Pakeha
and the Treaty, Why it’s our
Treaty too won first prize in
the first author, non-fiction section
at the Montana Book Awards.
- Dr Stuart
Middleton • Executive Director,
External Relations and Student Affairs,
Manukau Institute of Technology
PhD, MA, AIEd(Lond.), DipEd, DipSLT,
DipTchg
 Dr
Stuart Middleton taught English in
several Manukau City secondary schools
before becoming a teacher educator
at the then Auckland College of Education.
In 1990 he became Principal of Aorere
College, a large multicultural secondary
school in Manukau. During this time
he was a member of the Minister’s
Lead Group for qualifications reform.
He returned to the Auckland College
of Education to undertake a variety
of roles before taking up his present
position as Executive Director, External
Relations and Student Affairs at Manukau
Institute of Technology in 2002.
Stuart Middleton has been awarded
a Commonwealth Relations Trust Fellowship
to the University of London, several
QANTAS Media Awards as New Zealand’s
best social issues columnist. He has
written a weekly column in NZ Education
Review for the past ten years. In
2007 he won a Fulbright New Century
Scholars Award and joined an international
group of scholars studying equity
and access in higher education. In
September to December 2007 he was
a Visiting Scholar at the University
of California: Berkeley.
He is a Life Member of the NZ Assn
for the Teaching of English and active
in a variety of community organisations
in Manukau including the City of Manukau
Education Trust which he chairs, the
Counties Manukau Regional Sports Trust
and the Otara Economic Development
Trust. He has recently been appointed
Chair of the Board of Directors of
Manukau Leisure Services Ltd, a council
controlled organisation that provides
all leisure facilities and services
throughout the city.
Contact Conference Co-ordinator :
Kerry
Dean
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