Learning Media Limited (
Māori: ''Te Pou Taki Kōrero'') was a
New Zealand
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state-owned enterprise
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity created or owned by a national or local government, either through an executive order or legislation. SOEs aim to generate profit for the government, prevent private sector monopolies, provide goo ...
. 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'' 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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