Don’t be surprised by the rain we’ve been getting – July is the wettest month of the year – but the forecast is showing an unusually dry spring; water saving must continue Our Infrastructure Operations Manager, Nick Hanvey, was recently invited to join a special presentation, Watercare Top 50 Customers Breakfast Briefing, targeted at Auckland’s… Read more »
Nearly 200 high school students attended four Creative Industries workshops during the semester break with a great response from everyone involved. In the first week of the semester break a team from Performing & Screen Art ran two ‘Screen Bites’ workshops, increased from one to two due to the high level of interest. The workshop… Read more »
Ngā Wai a Te Tūī, our Kaupapa Māori & Indigenous Research Centre, launched two research projects on Friday. Mana Kainga The Mana Kainga project aims to empower Māori communities with the knowledge and skill to navigate the complexities of the housing sector. The programme will arm communities with the knowledge needed to address severe housing… Read more »
Otahuhu Primary School students put on a wonderful display of Samoan and Tongan dance for Tuesday’s launch of the Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020-2030, released by Associate Minister of Education Jenny Salesa at the school. Falaniko Tominiko, Director of Pacific Success attended the launch with Merran Davis, and said, “I welcome the launch of… Read more »
Our partnership with Panuku Development Auckland, an Auckland Council organisation, and our School of Architecture has provided our students with a number of real-world experiences over the last three years. More recently, in 2019, Architecture students were given the opportunity to re-design two Henderson sites identified for residential development, and are currently underway with a… Read more »
It was the opportunity to meet and spend time with the “cool and welcoming” lecturers at our Open Day that confirmed for the then aspiring graphic designer, Tikirau Jermaine-Rhyd Neavin Hathway, that he’d found the place that suited his learning aspirations. Discovering that the lecturers wanted to help students one-on-one and that they wanted… Read more »
Yesterday our Library team gathered, with others from across the Unitec whānau, for a karakia, led by Veraneeca and Kimoro from the Kaihautū team, to celebrate the new space for our kohinga Māori, book collection, now located on level 2 of Te Puna on the eastern end, overlooking the puna. The new home for the… Read more »
Our International students have chosen New Zealand as the place to study to create a better and brighter future for them and their whānau. They have travelled far from their homeland to our country to study in a second language, without their usual support networks – family and friends. They are highly engaged and motivated… Read more »
The rise of Matariki (the cluster of stars also known as Pleiades) in the winter skies above Aotearoa is an important time in the Māori calendar, as it signifies the start of the Māori New Year. It’s a time to reflect on the year gone by, plan for the year ahead and celebrate with community.… Read more »
Our Incident Management Team first met at the end of January to discuss the impact of COVID-19 and since then it’s been a pretty intense time for us all. Borders closed, courses moved online, most of us started working from home, some of you took on extra tasks – everyone pulled together to ensure our… Read more »
