Trades and Construction Excellence Awards evening celebrates student success and supports kaitiakitanga

11/12/2020

Each year our School of Trades and Services and the School of Building Construction run their own Excellence Awards Dinner event to celebrate our students’ achievements and to acknowledge business partners, employers, sponsors, as well as Industry Advisory Boards, for their commitment and support. Bringing these groups together supports kaitiakitanga; developing a community of professional… Read more »

Second day of record-breaking Research Symposium seals a stellar year for Unitec research

10/12/2020

Unitec’s record-breaking Research Symposium wrapped up yesterday with the second day of presentations covering Research with Impact, as well as Early Career Research. Unitec members of the STRATUS team, consisting of Denis Lavrov (Science Team Lead), Dila Beisembayeva (Lead Centre for Digital Innovation and Skills), Shannon Scown (Commercialisation Partner) conducting research into cybersecurity, gave the keynote address:… Read more »

Setting our graduates up for success: ‘Graduate to Career’ workshop

09/12/2020

Our Industry Partnerships team ran a workshop in late November for our graduating students as they prepare to launch themselves into (or back into) the workforce – demonstrating kaitiakitanga towards our students even as they prepare to leave us. Graduates are facing a very different job market now than what they would have faced a… Read more »

Our stars of the Unitec Excellence Awards 2020 – Pics and more!

07/12/2020

What a fabulous event on Thursday, when over 600 of us gathered in Te Puna to celebrate Unitec’s achievements in 2020 and recognised our shining stars. We had the largest number of nominations ever, nearly 300 across the 11 categories! From that the judges chose 43 finalists and 16 winners, who were presented trophies on… Read more »

Mahi Kotahitanga in action: Unitec shares Research Bank with Te Pūkenga subsidiaries

07/12/2020

The Te Pūkenga whānau is already bearing fruit in the world of research. Late October Unitec signed an agreement with EIT, Toi Ohomai and Otago Polytechnic to share our Research Bank system with them. What is Research Bank? Research Bank is our open access research repository which  make our research available to the world. The… Read more »

International Day of People with Disabilities – 3 December 2020

01/12/2020

          Each year, 3 December marks International Day of People with Disabilities. This day is promoted across the world by the United Nations to promote full and equal participation of persons with disabilities and to take action for the Inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and development.… Read more »

Unitec’s ‘cat condos’ feature on Seven Sharp

30/11/2020

Staff and students from three of our Schools have joined forces on a community project that will see pets given a safe home in domestic violence situations. Jo Jones, programme co-ordinator for the NZ Certificate in Animal Care in our School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, has been working with Pet Refuge over the past… Read more »

Construction students secure prestigious Keystone Scholarships

29/11/2020

Two of the nine available ‘Key Partner’ Keystone Scholarships have been awarded to Unitec students, announced last week by the Keystone Trust which supports students who have financial need or have been affected by adverse circumstances to take up tertiary studies in the property sector. The one-year Key Partner Scholarships are available to tertiary students,… Read more »

Unitec Excellence Awards finalists announced!

25/11/2020

The finalists for the Unitec Excellence Awards – Ngā Tohu Kairangi o Wairaka 2020 have been announced! Nearly 270 nominations were submitted – that’s 100 more than 2019! Our Executive Leadership team said “Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate a colleague or team. It’s heartening to see so many of you… Read more »

Planting of 150 trees is underway at Mt Albert campus

23/11/2020

  Our Facilities Management team are underway with the ordering and planting of 150 trees around our Mt Albert campus. This is a succession planting programme that focuses on larger specimen and native trees. The planting is being done to replace trees that have been removed due to disease, damage or are in unsuitable locations.… Read more »