Our UPC team took full advantage of an opportunity to share information and advice to prospective students at last week’s ‘Virtual Careers Expo’, where they set up an online booth and ran a live webcast. Why a ‘virtual careers expo’? Careers expos across New Zealand were cancelled or postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This… Read more »
Kauri Williams, who graduated from the Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in 2019, has been selected for a part in Māori Television’s bilingual series Ahikāroa, which follows the trials and tribulations of urban rangatahi. Kauri has been filming series 2 of Ahikāroa for the last few months and plays the character Whatukura McGregor, a… Read more »
Our long service milestones are usually recognised each month, but due to the COVID-19 lockdown these were postponed until we were back on campus. We now have the March, April and May 2020 milestones, 28 people to acknowledge and recognise – thank you all for your mahi and commitment to Unitec and our students! 25… Read more »
Students and staff in the Event Leadership class from the new Diploma of Sport, Recreation and Exercise programme, came together last week for a day of disc golf, after two months of online learning. It was a beautiful day to enjoy being back on campus and put into practice the event management skills the students… Read more »
Congratulations to Yo Heta-Lensen and Dr Kristie Cameron, who have been selected as Unitec’s nominees for this year’s national Ako Tertiary Teaching Awards. Kristie and Yo were both winners at our Unitec staff Excellence Awards 2019 and have reached an outstanding level of teaching. In the second of a two-part series we look into what… Read more »
Our School of Computing, Electrical and Applied Technology recently partnered with industry leaders to host a webinar on starting a career in cybersecurity, with the disruption of COVID-19 forcing many people to re-think their career pathways and employment opportunities. Dila Beisembayeva, Academic Programme Manager in our School of Computing, Electrical and Applied Technology, hosted the… Read more »
As we’ve heard in the media, the Auckland region got hit particularly hard by the drought over the summer, right through to April. Water levels are exceptionally low, so we all need to make a focus on saving water to preserve what we have left in our dams – despite all the rain we’ve had… Read more »
Lockdown hasn’t meant slowdown for our Environmental and Animal Sciences team Environmental and Animal Sciences Associate Professors Dan Blanchon and Peter de Lange are among our most prolific environmental scientists and discoverers. And lockdown certainly didn’t mean slowdown for these two. We asked them what they worked on during lockdown, what they missed most, and… Read more »
Making ‘sense’ of our COVID-19 experience: Sensemaking workshops What have you taken away from your experience in lockdown? Are there things you’ll keep doing, or plan to incorporate in your personal or professional life in future? Are you worried about the future for yourself and those around you? What would you like to see being… Read more »
Te Puna Kararehe, our Animal Behaviour and Husbandry Centre is excited to announce the safe arrival of two of its newest whānau members, a baby bearded dragon and a young tortoise. The tiny critters will be nurtured and cared for by students across a range of Animal Health and Welfare programmes with the School of… Read more »
