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The world’s top university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has awarded Jacqueline Paul (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) a full ride scholarship. (This means one that covers all expenses, including tuition, books, fees, room and board) The Unitec lecturer and Ngā Wai A Te Tūī researcher has joined the chosen few accepted… Read more »
Noa’ia and warm Pacific greetings, You are invited to attend the Library Talanoa Online Event. Wednesday 11th May at 12.30pm – 1.30pm via zoom Click or copy link into browser https://unitec-ac-nz.zoom.us/j/91933265181?pwd=U0ZaZWd2SUt6YmpGaXlhRUdXZDlYdz09%20#success Meeting ID: 919 3326 5181 | Passcode: 580424 CO-HOSTS Ioane Aleke Fa’avae, Pacific Learning Advisor, Pacific Centre, Unitec Sana Saleem, Subject Librarian (Pacific), Student… Read more »
The theme of Unitec’s 2022 Learning and Teaching Symposium in February was ‘change in assessment’ – how thinking about assessment has been changing, how teaching and assessment has had to change in response to Covid and what this means for ongoing change in our programmes and courses. Our focus for change is to create assessment… Read more »
Last week, Prof Martin Carroll’s executive assistant Delphine Gesché highlighted that it was Administrative Professionals Day on April 27 and so we wanted to add our thanks to all the amazing people at Unitec who keep the many wheels and cogs spinning! “Of course, we are grateful every day for the incredible support our administrative… Read more »
Today, and over the next few weeks, we welcome many of our staff and students back on campus. For some, it’ll be the first time back since the August 2021 lockdown – welcome back! Following Gus’s earlier update, here’s a reminder on what the ‘Orange’ setting means for Unitec staff. What the ‘Orange’ setting means for… Read more »
Earlier this year, Unitec Creative Industries graduates Sheryl Campbell and Solomon Mortimer were announced as two of the three winners of the 2022 Aotearoa Photobook Awards. The award was designed to reward outstanding photobooks produced between 21 January 2020 and 17 January 2022 by New Zealand photographers. Photobooks have become a major phenomenon in art photography worldwide and… Read more »
Unitec School of Environment and Animal Science associate professor Peter de Lange and his team have been studying the effects of the the fungal disease myrtle rust for several years, but this week he spoke to Radio New Zealand about the potential benefit of the disease to rid the Chatham Islands of a noxious… Read more »
Unitec Screen Arts alumna Huhana Ruri-Panapa was the editor for Maori musician Troy Kingi’s Black Sea Golden Ladder: The Visual Album which won the Grand Winner and Best Oceanian Film awards at the recent Cannes World Film Festival: Remember the Future. Kingi’s thought-provoking visual album explores an existential life experience. Read more in the Creative Industries newsletter
The beginning of April saw the first house built by Unitec trades and Services students on the Mt Albert campus journey to become new homes for Gisborne whānau. The five-bedroom home left Auckland and was put onto a site in Lyell Road, Kaiti on Wednesday 6 April. The home is the outcome of a partnership… Read more »
Did you see the great coverage Unitec’s very own carsharing app received on last night’s Project? If you want to sign up for the trial, more details are below the video on how to do that. Over the next few weeks, many of us are returning to work on campus, but also having a bit… Read more »
