The sustainability of social work education during low enrolment in Aotearoa New Zealand

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https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol36iss3id1139

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social work education, Aotearoa New Zealand, student hardship, social work registration

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Hagyun Kim, Massey University

Hagyun is a senior lecturer at School of Social Work at Massey University, New Zealand. He has worked for many years in immigration and refugee studies and has published on immigration process, identity, settlement programme design and evaluation. He is strongly interested in research that promotes the dignity of ethnic people, in particular Asians and refugees in civil society.

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2024-10-06

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Kim, H. (2024). The sustainability of social work education during low enrolment in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 36(3), 78–82. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol36iss3id1139

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