Whānau-Fānau evenings bring families to the heart of students’ experience

  Our Māori and Pacific learners gathered last week with their families to meet lecturers and hear more about Unitec and the support available for their journey here, at the Whānau – Fanau evenings at our Mt Albert and Waitakere campuses. The evenings were an opportunity for teaching and support staff to meet first year… Read more »

Graduand Oliver Cain wins another award with his porcelain ‘installation’

  We last shared Oliver Cain’s interesting work in June 2019, Communal Conversation, which featured two white ceramic toilet bowls lit with LEDs, winning him the Eden Arts Art Schools Award 2019 – a highly-coveted inter-art school award, with $5,000 prize money. Design and Contemporary Arts BCE graduand (2019), Oliver Cain, has won another award,… Read more »

Coronavirus: Update 6 March 2020

With an increasing number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Zealand, this update shares the precautionary approach we’re continuing to take to safeguard our staff, students and visitors, whose health and wellbeing remains our top priority. Our Incident Management Team is still meeting daily to review and analyse the situation and we are continuing… Read more »

NZ Sea Week: highlighting our people involved in marine research

It’s New Zealand Sea Week – Kaupapa Moana, celebrating the sea, and highlighting the diverse connections and interactions we have with the sea which makes our lives so intertwined with the health of our ocean environment. Unitec graduate studying whale behaviour Bachelor of Applied Science graduate, Abigail Robinson, has continued her work studying whales since… Read more »

Coronavirus: Update 2 March 2020

With the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New Zealand, we wanted to remind you of the precautionary approach we’re continuing to take at Unitec to safeguard our staff, students and visitors.  Our Incident Management Team is meeting daily to review and analyse the situation and we are continuing to follow the advice of the… Read more »

Cybersecurity diploma ‘responding to a very real need’

  Our new Diploma in Cybersecurity was officially launched in Te Puna yesterday, with an audience of stakeholders including the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Government Digital Services, Kris Faafoi, representatives from Datacom, Spark and Computer Concepts Limited, and our Unitec people involved in developing and teaching the course. It was a proud moment for… Read more »

Girl Guides get hands-on science experience, thanks to our School of Environmental and Animal Sciences

Our School of Environmental and Animal Sciences (EAS) recently hosted a group of 28 Girl Guides and Rangers for the day, to introduce them to how science and technology are used in caring for animals and the environment. The workshop was one part of a five-day camp. Unitec graduate and Girl Guide leader, Jeanette Anderson,… Read more »

Unitec team involved in medicinal cannabis research

The manufacture of medicinal cannabis promises to be big business and a new growth industry in New Zealand, as and when commercial licences are granted. The licences will for the first time allow the commercial cultivation and manufacture of medicinal cannabis, and open up a vast international market. There’s the potential for New Zealand to… Read more »

Our people: Long service – January 2020

January was a big month of significant service milestones, 16 staff in total, including Building Construction Lecturer, Roger Glanville, who celebrated his 40 year anniversary at Unitec! It’s important that we recognise these milestones and thank everyone who has made a long term commitment to Unitec and our students. 40 years Roger Glanville – Lecturer,… Read more »

Coronavirus: Update 25 February – Further extension on travel restrictions

Further extension on travel restrictions The NZ Government yesterday announced that temporary restrictions on travel from or via China will remain in place as a precautionary measure to protect against the spread of coronavirus.  The restrictions, which prevent foreign nationals travelling from, or transiting through, mainland China from entering New Zealand have been extended for… Read more »