Our whenua and Marae are a unique and meaningful part of who we are as whānau of Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka / Unitec. We’re lucky to have Te Noho Kotahitanga, our marae, as a place to call ‘home’ – it’s a place for all cultures to reside together as one at Unitec. It’s been… Read more »
Barbara ‘Taiha’ Molyneux joined us just a few weeks ago in the midst of lockdown. A challenging time for all but even more so when you’re new on the job and don’t get to meet your team in person or have any face-to-face interaction across the business. Taiha is however familar with our institution –… Read more »
Our School of Trade and Services recently filled their second Academic Programme Manager (APM) role, with the appointment of Bryan Davis, who was previously the National Service Operations Manager for Honda NZ. Bryan will be working alongside APM Jake Curran, who joined the School four months ago, returning to New Zealand from Australia, where… Read more »
At February’s all-staff Aronui-Focus 2020 event, all attendees were invited to make their own whiri (plait). Tanya White, our Kaitiaki – Taiao, Maia Māori Centre, who led the activity, collected the more than 400 whiri that the group made, and has spent the past few weeks completing the whatu (weaving them together) to create one large piece.… Read more »
We are very proud to have another generation of Tominikos on campus. Our Director of Pacific Success, Niko Tominiko, earlier this year, encouraged and supported his parents into fulltime study. A feat at any age to head ‘back to school’ but even more daunting with the move to online teaching due to the COVID-19 lockdown.… Read more »
The past few weeks have seen our Unitec staff and students make the transition to working and studying at home. Our teachers, supported by Te Puna Ako (TPA) and Te Korowai Kahurangi (TKK), have put in a huge amount of mahi to adapt to remote teaching delivery, and our support teams have adjusted to working… Read more »
Updated for 2021 We may be better used to the lockdown routine, but it makes it’s no less challenging to keep our kids entertained during long stretches at home, especially on rainy days. With schools closed, no visits to friends’ houses, sport or other activities in the daily schedule, parents and carers are having to… Read more »
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has provided an outline of what life and business activity might look like under a move to Alert Level 3. The key principle of Alert Level 3 is to continue to restrict contact with others as much as possible, but moves from essential operations only to safe operations, including maintainting physical… Read more »
Given the importance of staying healthy while in lockdown, we’ve put together some introductory advice on boosting your immunity, with the help of two Unitec experts. These tips will help you work on three basic building blocks: sleep, exercise and nutrition. These three factors are interlinked so if you need to make some changes, start… Read more »
Each month we celebrate our staff who have reached a significant service milestone. It’s important that we acknowledge and thank everyone who has made a long term commitment to Unitec and our students. In January 2020 we had some big milestones including a 40 year long service acknowledgement. In February we had ten people who… Read more »
