We have put in place an initiative to recognise all our staff who have reached a significant long service milestone. Many of you say it’s the people that you work with that make this place special, so it’s really important that we acknowledge and thank everyone who has made a long term commitment to us!… Read more »
We’re looking forward to welcoming world-renowned Kiwi cook, entrepreneur, media personality and mum, Nadia Lim to our next Women in Leadership event on Thursday. She’ll be talking about aspirational leadership and the role it has played in her career to date. The session will be structured around questions sent to her in advance so if… Read more »
The countdown is on to the start of Ka Rewa Māori Innovation: 2018 ITP Research Symposium, which Unitec is hosting on 10-11 July. The Hōtaka/official programme celebrates and showcases Māori innovation at a local, national and international level. It offers a wealth of impressive speakers and topics, including many of our own Unitec experts. Keynote speakers… Read more »
David Glover, our interim CFO, has co-authored a book with Dr Jo Cribb, discussing how to survive and thrive in the new world of work. Don’t worry about the Robots is a practical guide to protecting ourselves in the changing world of automation and digitisation. In his interview with NBR, David talked about how fast… Read more »
Don’t miss out; register now for Tū Arotake ∙ Checkpoint Time is running out; register now! When: Tuesday 17 July, Two sessions: 9.00am OR 11.00am Where: Red Lecture Theatre, Te Puna, Mt Albert campus On 17 July, we’re continuing the conversation we started at Kickstart about our renewed focus on academic quality and student success. We’ll check in… Read more »
The Marketing team’s Semester 2 campaign was launched in market on 11 June and will run through until 3 August. The key objective is to drive applicants, with a focus on prospective students who are looking at a career change or to upskill. The campaign builds upon the idea of Unitec being a place… Read more »
The Education Minister Chris Hipkins has announced that the TEC will be opening consultation on the possibility of dissolving Unitec’s council and appointing a commissioner in its place. You can read his statement here. The consultation has been prompted by the TEC’s concerns with our financial situation, and the appointment of a commissioner will give… Read more »
Winter is when ‘slips, trips and falls’ are the key contributors to incidents and accidents around campus, so please do take care. If you do have an accident or encounter a potential hazard, make sure you log it in our injury register, the Vault. Already this year there’s been 61 injuries and 35 of them… Read more »
The International team decided to focus their team-building day in June on helping out in the community. They chose to volunteer at Eat My Lunch, where they made lunches for kids. Up at the crack of dawn, the team helped to make 2,500 school lunches for students in 84 Auckland schools. Josephine Kinsella, General… Read more »
A whakatauki with a metaphor of trees supporting each other through an intertwined root system was the starting point for the Tertiary Education Commission’s introduction to their ITP Roadmap 2020 project on Thursday. A group from the TEC spent the day at Unitec talking to Council, the extended leadership team, staff, students and community stakeholders… Read more »
