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 »
Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. The annual Plastic Free July campaign launched nine years ago in Australia, and now involves 117 nations. As awareness of environmental and sustainability issues… Read more »
Our School of Creative Industries is celebrating yet another one of its student’s films being selected to screen at New Zealand’s premier film festival. Childhood Room was one of 12 locally-made films shortlisted for the Best Short Award at next month’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival. While it was not chosen as one… Read more »
• Latest updates from Watercare • Our staff share their water saving tips • How to get the kids involved Our dam levels continue to drop, despite regular rain, so Watercare has lifted our water supply status to ‘critical’. It is even more important now that we adopt habits at home and on campus to… Read more »
