Pasifika academics have been aware of the challenges they experience as indigenous scholars inhabiting western education facilities, they are also aware of this reality for students and have initiated a pathway facilitating positive trajectory for indigenous students.

Academics at the University of Auckland have launched a programme He Vaka Moana to advance success for Pacific and Māori students, to see what works and what does not. Employing indigenous methodologies and knowledge from Pasifika and Māori will chart a way for these groups to own, direct and create a pathway attuned to different ways of knowing/learning in Oceania as demonstrated by Pasifika and Māori academics.

(Smith; Wolfgramm-Foliaki, 2020; Matapo; Tim Baice, 2020; Anae; Peterson, 2020).