Peter Ramsay

Peter Douglas Kenneth Ramsay QSM (1939 – 21 July 2019) was a New Zealand academic.

[1][2] His MA thesis, supervised by Ian McLaren and completed in 1969, was titled Planning, policy, and practice in Maori education, 1936–1968, and examined some of the reasons for the relative underachievement of Māori in education at that time as identified by the Hunn Report.

[1] Ramsay was a faculty member of the School of Education at the University of Waikato, rising to the rank of professor.

[10] He served as president of the NDSNZ,[2] was awarded life membership of the society in 1990,[11][12] and latterly was its vice-patron.

[13] Ramsay was also an international daffodil judge, and was involved in the establishment of the horticultural pavilion in Hamilton Gardens.