Felicity Bowden’s face is a familiar one to anyone who has checked out Te Puna Kararehe – our Small Animal Unit, or bought eggs produced by our free-range chickens. As she nears retirement, we caught up with Felicity to reflect on her 15 years at Unitec. Changes in role…and more Felicity has seen changes… Read more »
This morning, Glenn Mckay, our Tumu and Executive Director – Student Success, announced some changes to our pōwhiri process during our Welcome Day and Orientation events. You can read his communication here. Previous Coronavirus updates and info published on the Nest: Coronavirus: Update – Monday 17 February 2020 Coronavirus: Update – Monday 10 February 2020… Read more »
Further to our earlier posts, we’re continuing to take a precautionary approach to the coronavirus situation in order to safeguard our staff and students, and to ensure the least amount of disruption to studies as possible. Here are some further updates: > Extension of Travel Restrictions The New Zealand Government announced over the weekend that… Read more »
Welcoming our students – Nau mai, haere mai! Orientation 2020 Orientation is designed to help prepare our students for study at Unitec, so please encourage attendance in any way you can, this is a priority and a great way for them to ‘hit the ground running’ on day one of semester 1! Orientation opens with… Read more »
In a true display of takitahi (working/weaving together), MC Nick Sheppard and Matua Hare Paniora opened Tuesday’s Aronui-Focus event together with a moving welcome, in both te reo Māori and English. It set the tone for what was an inspiring and thought-provoking occasion. The theme of the all-staff Aronui-Focus 2020 event was Takitahi: He… Read more »
Our Student Success and Te Puna Waiora teams are putting care packages together, to support students who are in self-isolation due to the coronavirus outbreak. The more than 30 students, who have all travelled here from China, are following Ministry of Health guidelines by keeping themselves isolated for the mandatory two-week period before starting… Read more »
The Incident Management Team is continuing to meet on a daily basis to monitor, assess and provide recommendations and guidelines to staff and students around the coronavirus situation. Our International students have raised a number of questions around course deferrals, visas etc, and as soon as we have more information, we’ll update everyone. The Ministry… Read more »
Our marae grounds have been getting extra attention lately as a group of young missionaries have weekly manaaki whenua (caring for the land) sessions, facilitated by Kaitiaki Taiao, Tanya White. The partnership started over a year ago when leaders of a local church contacted Whaea Tanya to offer their assistance. This group of missionaries… Read more »
The Incident Management Team is continuing to do a lot of work liaising with our staff and students who are affected by the coronavirus situation, both by travel restrictions and the mandatory 14-day stand-down period. We currently have 16 of our International students in self-isolation in New Zealand; all of them have accommodation and the… Read more »
