Learning Media Limited (
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
: ''Te Pou Taki Kōrero'') was a
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
state-owned enterprise. The company published most of the
Ministry of Education
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...
's material. A division of the Ministry until 1993, it continued to publish the ''
New Zealand School Journal
The ''New Zealand School Journal'' is a periodical children's educational publication in New Zealand. Founded in 1907 by the Department of Education, it is one of the world's longest-running publications for children. Since 2013 it has been pub ...
'' and ''Junior Journal'' magazines and the ''Ready to Read'' readers for the Ministry, as well as provide services for other organisations.
It was formed from three former divisions of the abolished Department of Education in 1989, most notably the School Publications Branch, which had hitherto published the ''School Journal''.
It published an English–Māori dictionary by
H. M. Ngata, first in print as ''English–Maori Dictionary'' in 1993, and later on the web as the ''Ngata Dictionary''.
Learning Media was wound up in September 2013.
Learning Media to be closed, but School Journal to continue
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Learning Media Ltd
Educational organisations based in New Zealand
Government-owned companies of New Zealand
Mass media companies of New Zealand
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