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More than 20 students studying for the New Zealand Certificate in Skills for Living and Working programme, a full-time vocational course for supported learners, have recently completed successful 20-week work placements under the guidance of Mary Perich and Helen Pearce. Various Unitec pathways and support services have been largely instrumental in facilitating work experience for… Read more »
We all have our stories and we’d like to share them here on the Nest. We’d love to hear from you if you have a yarn that other staff might be interested in… it could be something you are passionate about, or work you’re doing at Unitec or out in the community. Dan Brady, GM… Read more »
The very successful Hawkins Construction partnership has been running for three years now and the team last week celebrated the occasion at a ceremony for the graduates of the Cadet programme. Hawkins moved their cadetship programme to us in 2017 motivated by the success of our 2016 Better than Before programme, known now as Project Excellence.… Read more »
Last week we received tragic news of a serious car crash involving one current and two recently graduated Unitec Engineering students. Two of the students, Bikramjit Singh and Mukul Jaglan, were killed in the crash, which occurred on Monday evening as they were travelling on SH1 near Tokoroa. The third student, Amit Sharma, remains in… Read more »
The recipe competition Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are prevalent in New Zealand and what you eat plays a huge role in reducing or managing it effectively. Taking steps to prevent or control diabetes isn’t about being on a boring and strict diet, it’s about a tasty and balanced eating regime that will… Read more »
Senior Academic Leader Cris de Groot recently joined a panel discussion on Sustainable Design and the Circular Economy, hosted by New Zealand Education and the Emerging Futures Summit. The session explored the concepts of sustainable design theory and showcased some of New Zealand’s most exciting examples of waste-free, do no harm design. The crux… Read more »
New Award format – new look and new categories! NOMINATION CLOSING DATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 5PM, WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER. The clock is ticking to get your nomination(s) in, for our new Unitec Excellence Awards. Nominations close on Monday 12 November – that means you have eight working days to get your nomination in for… Read more »
It’s important that all our students have a positive experience while they study with us. We have a particular duty of care to our international students who are away from their homes and their usual support networks. It’s our job to help them stay safe, provide them with useful information and guidance, and ensure they… Read more »
Fisher & Paykel Appliances, NZ Post, IBM, Spark, ANZ and Foodstuffs were among the companies who participated in the first-ever Business Connect and Computing Connect networking sessions held recently in Te Puna, designed to provide an industry networking framework for Computing and Business Practice students at Unitec. The ‘Connect’ idea was a partnership between… Read more »
Short films from the Middle East, Europe, Australia and USA have taken out the top awards at this year’s Uni Shorts International Student Film Festival held by our Performing & Screen Arts (Creative Industries) on Saturday. Auckland schools swept the New Zealand Secondary Schools section. Seventeen-year-old King’s College student Quinn Dacre took out the top… Read more »
