Our Te Miro Postgraduate Practice Pathway has a new home in our organisational structure.
Te Miro is our transdisciplinary centre where students can study postgraduate programmes that don’t sit within a specific academic discipline. The Te Miro Network that reported into Nick Sheppard has been disestablished and the Pathway is now sitting under Te Puna Ako and reporting into Simon Nash, Director Ako. We’re not changing any of the postgraduate programmes that we offer or the staff within the Pathway, although we will be recruiting a new Head of Practice Pathway to replace Matthew Farry, who recently left Unitec. Staff will continue to report to their current Academic Leader and there will be no change in reporting lines for learning and teaching staff.
From Semester Two, the Graduate Diploma in Higher Education programme, Academic Leader and staff will move into the Te Miro Postgraduate Practice Pathway.
Merran Davis, Executive Dean, Academic said: The changes make a lot of sense now that we’re no longer providing an undergraduate Pathway in Te Miro. The applied practice aspect of our post-graduate programme connects nicely to the teacher capability programme that Te Puna Ako is developing and there will be some interesting cross-over opportunities for our staff through this alignment.