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Unitec’s Rainbow and Ally network is hitting 2025 with a renewed range of events and initiatives, designed to raise awareness of the network and its support of LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality for kaimahi and ākonga. The 30-strong kaimahi network won the Outstanding Contribution by a Project Team at last year’s Staff Excellence Awards, recognised for… Read more »
Our Information and Enrolment Days are coming up next week, designed to encourage enrolments and attract new, transferring, and returning students for Semester 1, 2025. Dates and times are: Mt. Albert campus: January 29, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Waitākere campus (Healthcare & Social Practice only): January 30, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM While re-enrolment may… Read more »
“AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI – at least in the short-to-medium term,” says Senior Manager for GenAI at PwC New Zealand, Kayur Patel, who delivered the opening address at this week’s Auckland Region Accounting Conference (ARA) hosted by the School of Applied Business at Unitec. Kayur’s address… Read more »
More than 25 sporting organisations and industry bodies joined the first Sports Networking event in many years at Unitec last week, hosted by the Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise. Community Studies Senior lecturer Chantal Bakersmith said the event was designed to connect with people in the industry, and to promote our sports and recreation… Read more »
This week, we successfully completed a project to recarpet the Waitākere Campus Library on level 3 of Building 520. This library is accessed via an ‘airbridge’ from Building 510. We encourage you to visit and see the new improved space. Dipti Vora, Subject Librarian based at Waitākere, said: “The new carpet creates a more welcoming,… Read more »
The photos from our recent Staff Excellence Awards are now available for viewing! You can download them from this portal – no password is required. Scroll down to the Staff Awards option: https://unitec.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-unitec/action/viewHome?group=staffexcellenceawards (Browse Folders >> Event Photography > 2024 > Staff Excellence Award 2024) Thank you again for your submissions, your participation and your… Read more »
Our divisions are committed to transparency and supporting fair pay by publishing our gender and ethnicity pay gap results as a part of ensuring an inclusive workplace for all. We acknowledge there is still work for us to do, and by sharing these results we show our focus on addressing and making progress towards understanding… Read more »
An address by Te Pūkenga Council member, UN representative, educator, researcher and writer Tagaloatele Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop CNZM opened this week’s ITP Research Symposium 2024. The five-day symposium showcases the diversity of research undertaken by staff and postgraduate students across Te Pūkenga organisations, including applied and technological research, rangahau Māori, creative practice, and pedagogical research. It… Read more »
Ākonga are rating our courses at an all-time high, according to the student course survey results for Semester 2 2024, released today. Students rate our overall course experience 8.2 out of 10, which is on par with the last two semesters and continues to be at the highest level since surveys began in 2018. Ratings… Read more »
Elaine Underwood, a tireless mental health advocate who was one of the founders of the West Auckland-based WALSH Trust more than 30 years ago, was honoured at Unitec last week with the presentation of several scholarships in her name. WALSH Trust, which provides community based mental health support and residential services, is an important part… Read more »
