Nigel Pizzini, Lecturer in Social Practice at our Waitākere campus and a specialist counsellor, spoke to Leah Panapa on Magic Nights this week about coping with anxiety in the face of the current COVID-19 challenges. With Auckland shifting to life under Alert Level 2 today, many people will be having to once again re-adjust to… Read more »
It was Merran’s last day as our Interim Chief Executive on Friday, as she heads off to her new role as Deputy Chief Executive – Transformation and Transition with NZIST. In a fitting tribute to her time here, a Unitec-wide Zoom hui gave the opportunity for staff to share their thanks and best wishes, before… Read more »
The Unitec Dance programme has announced a change to their dress code, including moving away from traditional attire in ballet classes. Students are now free to choose what they wear to their ballet class (within a set of guidelines), rather than wearing the pink or black tights and leotard commonly associated with practising ballet. The… Read more »
This is the second part of a series looking behind the scenes at Te Puna Kararehe (TPK) – our animal husbandry and behaviour unit. Last week we shared a story about how the TPK team manages to care for the animals during Level 3 lockdown. This week, we hear about our newly named bearded dragon… Read more »
Life at Te Puna Kararehe, our animal behaviour and husbandry centre, is very different to normal during Alert Level 3, but the team does a fantastic job of keeping it normal for the animals. Here’s senior technician Stacey Middleditch’s story: “Technician Tina Burgess and I split the daily cleaning and feeding of the animals with… Read more »
Confronting challenges and seizing opportunities is nothing new for International student Richard Jin, who left his home in China seven years ago to live and study at Unitec. Leaving your family, friends, your land, language and culture behind is daunting and the impact of COVID-19 introduces a new level of apprehension for many International students… Read more »
New Student Support Escalation Plan supports student retention and success The School of Trades and Services has developed a system to capture and manage a range of issues that have the potential to impact their students’ success. The ‘Student Support Escalation Plan’ (SSEP) is designed to track the course of action being taken in response… Read more »
It’s Conservation Week 2020 and who better to hear from than Associate Professor Peter de Lange, lecturer in our School of Environmental and Animal Sciences who has spent many years researching and working in the field with other experts to find out more about the diseases threatening our native environment. He spoke with Radio New… Read more »
Today Merran shared with us that she has accepted a new role as Deputy Chief Executive, Transformation and Transition, with NZIST. As she says in her message, it’s an exciting opportunity for her, but she is sad to be leaving her Unitec whānau, particularly during such an unsettling time, but we should think of this… Read more »
Kā nui te mihi ki a Yo Heta-Lensen (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine), Senior Lecturer in our School of Community Studies, who has been named one of New Zealand’s top tertiary teachers by Ako Aotearoa on behalf of the Minister of Education. As Merran announced yesterday, Yo is one of five award winners in the Kaupapa Māori… Read more »
