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It was a month of walking, running, biking and boot camps…anything to get those steps up! Our 30 teams did us proud, stepping their way through STEPtember and raising money for the Cerebral Palsy Society. And the winning team was… UPCREAC with 2,189,629 steps. Congrats to the team members: Renee Peeni, Blair Sorensen, Debbie Loots and… Read more »
Our library received an outstanding performance score of 82% in a recent survey. In September, over 2,000 Unitec students and staff completed a survey, which is bench-marked with 29 university libraries across Australasia. Our 82% overall score once again places us in the top 25% of libraries over the past two years. Our library scored… Read more »
Keep an eye out for our new marketing campaign which will hit bus stops, radio waves and social media later this month. Our marketing team has been hard at work on the new campaign, to promote Unitec to potential students and their whānau. The ‘Looks like a classroom to us’ message has been woven with the… Read more »
We’re now underway with some big moves which impacts predominantly our Support Services teams, re-locating them to B110 – the ‘Wagener Library and Resource Centre’ building. These moves are part of our campus consolidation approach and our plan to bring as many of our Support Services teams together into one place by the end… Read more »
It’s not too late to register for the Unitec Research Symposium! Happening on Thursday 11 October in B023, Mt Albert campus, the Symposium is hosted by Tūāpapa Rangahau – Partnering Research & Enterprise, and will showcase student and staff research across the whole of Unitec. It’s a future-focused event intent on inspiring, challenging, informing and… Read more »
Have you attended the Learning and Teaching 101 workshop? Whether you’ve been here a week or up to six months, this interactive workshop gives a great insight into how we approach Learning and Teaching here at Unitec. Register now for next week’s workshop Tuesday 9 October, 8.50am – 12.30pm at B180-2045 And it’s not just… Read more »
International student Vinay Kumar has been selected for a prestigious IT-Digital Tech internship at Southern Spars after winning a place at the inaugural Global Talent Showcase 2018. Initiated by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development’s (ATEED) Study Auckland and HR consultancy Talent Solutions, the competition is aimed at helping international students connect with employers. Vinay heard about the Global… Read more »
Three of our students have been selected for internships at corporate businesses, through the Tupu Toa programme. Tupu Toa is an innovative internship programme creating pathways for Māori and Pasifika students into careers in the corporate and professional sectors. An information evening in Te Puna earlier this year saw 30 interested students learn about Tupu… Read more »
Our partnership with Auckland energy company Vector has provided innovative electric vehicle technology to power our students’ light installations at this year’s GLOW@Artweek festival, on Devonport’s Windsor Reserve, 12 and 13 October 2018. Nine teams of second-year Architecture students will design and prefabricate a diverse range of interactive light installations on Devonport’s Windsor Reserve,… Read more »
Our automotive programmes and Mataaho featured this month in Radiator magazine, the official magazine of the Motor Trade Association, and the sole publication targeted at the automotive industry. In the six-page article Faces of the future – Unitec pre-trade course aims high, they talk to Vehicle Systems Academic Leader and Lecturer Lee Baglow about… Read more »
