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WelTec Offers Free Engineering Diploma To Fill Job Shortages
Monday, 14 February 2022, 10:39 am | Weltec
WelTec’s free New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (NZDE) provides work-ready graduates to resource local infrastructure projects. Chief Executive of the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Patrick McKibbin says in 2021 the chamber identified that 66% of businesses ... More >>
WelTec Student Placed Third In The World’s Largest Digital Culinary Competition
Monday, 15 February 2021, 2:37 pm | Weltec
WelTec cookery student, Jess Hoskins, has been placed third in the 7th annual Young Chef Olympiad 2021 (YCO) - a global culinary event. Jess competed against students from 49 other countries, over six continents and 24 time zones, and was assessed ... More >>
WelTec robotics tutor creates real time map of PPE demand
Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 2:28 pm | Weltec
As part of his volunteer work for ShieldsUp , an organisation established at the start of lockdown which called on volunteers to 3D print personal protective equipment (PPE) to fill the shortage gap, WelTec tutor Frank Beinersdorf has developed a real ... More >>
WelTec Offer Two-year Youth Work Diploma As Need For Experts To Grow In A Post-COVID World
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 4:11 pm | Weltec
WelTec is offering a level 6, two-year full-time diploma in Youth Work as the need for youth workers in New Zealand continues to rise. “One of the biggest, and somewhat unknown knock-on effects we could face as a result of isolation due to COVID-19 is ... More >>
WelTec Student Officially One Of The Best Young Chefs In The World
Friday, 14 February 2020, 2:06 pm | Weltec
A current WelTec student has been named as one of the best young chefs in the world after he placed at the Young Chef Olympiad 2020 competition held in India earlier this month. Dominic Muollo-Gray, who has almost completed his New Zealand ... More >>
WelTec launches new degree apprenticeship
Friday, 31 January 2020, 3:04 pm | Weltec
WelTec has launched a brand new way of delivering a degree qualification for engineers. More >>
WelTec and Rimutaka Prison team up to build social housing
Sunday, 22 December 2019, 6:09 pm | Weltec
WelTec and Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities (previously Housing New Zealand/HLC/Kiwibuild) have signed a housing supply agreement whereby houses built by WelTec students in Porirua, Petone and Rimutaka Prison, will be placed in the Porirua, Hutt Valley and ... More >>
WelTec and Rimutaka Prison partnership provides light
Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 4:52 pm | Weltec
Over 100 men at Rimutaka Prison will hold their heads up a little higher ahead of Christmas following graduation ceremonies held to recognise their successful completion of WelTec programmes done ‘behind the wire’ qualifying them in trade certificates ... More >>
Engineering student works with Hutt City Council
Monday, 2 December 2019, 4:15 pm | Weltec
In November, 51 of WelTec’s engineering students exhibited their final year projects in Petone. The symposium was a myriad display of engineering feats put together by Bachelor of Engineering Technology, Graduate Diploma in Engineering and Diploma of ... More >>
Young WelTec mechanic students step up
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 4:22 pm | Weltec
When WelTec introduced a new way of training its Level 4 mechanic students by offering night classes to underpin their on-the-job learning with theory and hands-on practical, the number of students enrolled quadrupled over two years. More >>
New learn-as-you-earn programme for aspiring chefs
Monday, 14 October 2019, 2:15 pm | Weltec
In efforts to develop the talent of aspiring chefs while they are on-the-job, WelTec’s School of Creative and Hospitality has designed an exciting new programme, the WelTec Managed Traineeship New Zealand Certificate in Cookery Level 4. More >>
Architectural Technology Graduate influences Queenstown
Monday, 24 September 2018, 11:32 am | Weltec
Arthur Lee has had some remarkable experiences in his career to date which started through his initial Architectural Technology studies at WelTec in Petone. More >>
The Summer of 2017
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 6:58 pm | Weltec
The Summer of 2017: How Festivals in British Columbia Minimised Their Environmental Impact WelTec senior lecturer, Joany Grima, based in New Zealand, has completed a study investigating waste minimisation, and other “green” practices, at festivals ... More >>
Funeral Directing Popular Career Choice
Tuesday, 1 May 2018, 12:10 pm | Weltec
The largest group of trainee Funeral Directors has just completed a two week block course in Wellington. The students are studying with the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), the only provider nationally of the New Zealand Diploma in Funeral ... More >>
WelTec celebrates Master of Professional Practice Graduates
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 9:45 am | Weltec
Mumtaz Parker Dalwai and fellow graduate Robert Nelson celebrated a special event last week. Not only did they each graduate with the Master of Professional Practice, but they were the first WelTec graduates who successfully completed the level 9 Masters ... More >>
Technology Talent Recognised
Monday, 16 April 2018, 9:25 am | Weltec
Shanini Kumari was recognised as the ANZ top woman student in IT for 2018 and Erik Poulsen awarded ANZ Most Outstanding Student. "This award carries lots of value to me. It is recognition that the decision I took three years back to shape my career ... More >>
Engineering & IT Graduating Students Showcase Commitment
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 9:15 am | Weltec
Final year student projects for Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology, Diploma in Architectural Technology and Graduate Diploma students from engineering and IT were showcased to the public yesterday in Wellington. The projects ... More >>
WelTec Welcomes Week of Engineering
Friday, 4 August 2017, 9:56 am | Weltec
From Vex Robotics to 3D printing, CNC machining, liquefaction modelling and land contour profiling, Wellingtonians will have the chance to explore it all for free at the Wellington Week of Engineering Expo being held at Te Papa on Saturday 5 August. More >>
Quantity surveying booming as a popular career choice
Monday, 31 July 2017, 11:45 am | Weltec
Around the country quantity surveying is fast becoming a popular study option and career choice. More >>
ICT Students Recognised by Intergen
Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 4:43 pm | Weltec
Aleisha Perry, Hyuck Yim and Nicole Priddey received industry recognition today when they received top ICT student awards at a ceremony held at the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) in front of more than sixty programming students. More >>