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Twenty-nine-year-old shooting Para sport athlete and celebrated medalist Neelam ONeill came up for air at the end of the first lockdown in 2020, and decided she wanted to do something different with her life. After losing her cherished grandmother in September of that year, Neelam narrowly missed out on selection for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic… Read more »
The annual Unitec Three Minute Thesis (3MT) thesis competition took place earlier this month and was won by Pippa Sommerville, Master of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture. The runners-up were Naziba Marzan (Master of Applied Business, School of Applied Business), and Yue Sun (Master of Architecture (Professional), School of Architecture). Pippa’s winning presentation was: “How… Read more »
This bi-annual survey, which was completed by more than 450 staff, was designed to gauge ways to reduce car use and introduce more sustainable transport options to our campuses. It polled views on modes of transport (trying to find more sustainable ways to travel), frequency (trying to make travel more efficient), and time (trying to… Read more »
Join us for events across Unitec to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2022
To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Maori Language Week), PASA acting students will be performing kapa haka and waiata at Ngākau Māhaki, Unitec Te Kotahitanga Marae from 11:30am-12pm on Tuesday 13 September. Entry is free so come and support our ākonga. Also on Tuesday, Design & Contemporary Arts students (ākonga) and kaiako (teachers)… Read more »
Be kind, be open, be enthusiastic”. These were the words of advice that PwC graduate recruiter Dominique Herewini had for the prospective job seekers who attended last week’s careers fair at Unitec. PwC was one of 20 businesses that exhibited at Unitec’s Industry Connect event for Business and Computing and Information Technology students, designed to match students with employers… Read more »
Associate Professor Dr Peter de Lange from our School of Environmental & Animal Sciences recently travelled to the Chatham Islands for the Chatham Science Festival. As Peter is the Chair of the Chatham Islands Conservation Board and the board was having a meeting on 19 August, Peter was able to present that evening and minimal… Read more »
Earlier this year, two ākonga from Supported Learning: Finn Penny and Brennan Nicholls, wanted to gain work experience in Trades. As part of their second year of study, all ākonga on the New Zealand Certificate in Skills for Living and Working participate in a course called Work-Based Learning where they gain practical experience… Read more »
Unitec welcomed a host of budding environmental scientists, builders, architects, nurses, robotics engineers, designers and more to its campuses for the annual Unitec Open Day on Saturday. The event at Unitec’s Mt Albert and Waitākere campuses marked a welcome return to an in-person Open Day after an absence of two years due to COVID restrictions.… Read more »
This week is Tongan Language Week and Unitec and MIT are running a joint programme. Click here for the full programme This year’s theme for Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week – is: Ke Tu’uloa ‘a e lea faka-Tonga ‘i Aotearoa, which means Sustaining the Tonga Language in Aotearoa. Ke… Read more »
