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Accolades Flow For Wintec’s Māori And Pacific Plumbing Kaimahi And Ākonga
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 8:14 pm | Wintec
2023 was a piping hot year for Māori and Pacific plumbing kaimahi (staff) and ākonga (students) at Wintec | Te Pūkenga, with a surge of accolades highlighting the calibre of Wintec’s plumbing whānau both on the teaching staff and in the classroom. A ... More >>
Poster Exhibition Gives Voice To Elders And Connects Students Across The Globe
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 5:54 pm | Wintec
If you could give one piece of advice to the people of your city, in 20 words or less, what would it be? Design students across three countries proposed this question to elders within their community for a public good poster project called Hear Us ... More >>
New Research Out Of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Paving The Way For Ultra-marathon Performance
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 10:37 am | Wintec
New research to support peak performance in ultramarathon running, conducted by Russell Best, Principal Academic Staff Member at Wintec | Te Pūkenga Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance, and his international collaborators, is having ... More >>
Te Pūkenga Performing Arts “Nods And Winks To Old Shows” In Broadway Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 10:35 am | Wintec
he Theatre stream of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts is getting ready for its end-of-year musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. The show brings together all ākonga from Year 2 and 3 of the degree under the astute guidance of ... More >>
Wintec Supporting Pacific Scholars To Gain Skills To Benefit Their Home Communities
Monday, 30 October 2023, 5:43 pm | Wintec
Pacific Short Term Training Scholarship (STTS) recipients are studying at Wintec | Te Pūkenga to gain skills they can take home to improve their local communities. Pictured left to right: Back row - Robert (Solomon Islands), Brendon (Solomon Islands), ... More >>
Exceptional Adult Learners Recognised During Adult Learners' Week
Friday, 8 September 2023, 5:09 pm | Wintec
Wintec | Te Pūkenga celebrated the success of its top adult learners through the annual Adult Learners Awards. The celebration is a part of Adult Learners’ Week, He Tangata Matauranga, an initiative Wintec has been supporting since 2004. The Adult ... More >>
Coaching Special Olympics Athletes To Shoot For The Stars
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 8:56 pm | Wintec
About 12 years ago Simone Kokaua’s nephew Richie, who has diverse needs, got into playing basketball and her sister asked her to drive the bus for the team one day. This experience led to her volunteer to coach one of the teams after witnessing how ... More >>
Wintec Celebrates 30 Years Of Ground-breaking Māori Nursing Programme This International Nurses Day
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 6:58 pm | Wintec
This International Nurses Day, Wintec | Te Pūkenga will be celebrating a major milestone for its Tihei Mauri Ora Māori nursing programme, which has been improving Māori health outcomes in the community for 30 years. On Friday 12 May, founders ... More >>
Wintec Boosts Census Numbers For Stats NZ
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 1:21 pm | Wintec
Wintec helped Stats NZ give 2023 Census numbers a boost through their student hubs. With more 2023 Census forms to be returned to Stats NZ, and factors such as recent extreme weather impacting participation, Waikato Area Manager for Statistics New ... More >>
Wintec Committed To Transparency Around Pay Equity
Monday, 30 May 2022, 3:53 pm | Wintec
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), one of the Waikato's largest employers, has led the way by sharing its current pay gap figures and its commitment to transparency around pay equity. Wintec is the first tertiary institution in Aotearoa to announce ... More >>
Wintec Initiative Delivers Critical Support To The Elderly During Lockdown
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1:17 pm | Wintec
When Covid-19 hit first hit Aotearoa New Zealand, some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable people became isolated. Wintec nursing students stepped up to help, demonstrating why our health response needs to be more agile and inclusive than ever. At 1.30pm ... More >>
Scholarships Support More Pacific And Māori People Into Health Careers
Thursday, 3 February 2022, 1:25 pm | Wintec
There is still time to apply for health scholarships at Wintec that are making a significant difference to Māori and Pacific students in their pathway to success in health careers. This year, the Dame Te Ātairangikaahu Nursing Scholarship will ... More >>
Te Pūkenga And Wintec To Launch Ground-breaking Community Health Clinics
Thursday, 16 December 2021, 1:15 pm | Wintec
A ground-breaking, community health education model will launch at Wintec in Kirikiriroa Hamilton from 2022, where ākonga/learners studying health and sport-related disciplines will learn in supervised working clinics. The project, He Kaupapa Oranga Tahi is ... More >>
Wayfinding Project Puts Te Tiriti And Te Reo Māori First
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:57 am | Wintec
Four years ago, Wintec academic, Luke McConnell made a note to do a bilingual wayfinding project with his third-year design tauira/students. Back then it felt like a good idea but as time went by, he realised the potential for designers to develop skills ... More >>
Why This Athlete Switched The Volleyball Court For The Rugby Field
Monday, 6 September 2021, 3:35 pm | Wintec
Wintec master’s graduate and volleyball star-cum-rugby player, Stacey Niao has made this year’s Farah Palmer Cup Canterbury squad. A volleyball star from Kawerau has switched the volleyball court for the rugby field. Stacey Niao (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti ... More >>
Reawakening Mana In Men In Early Childhood Education
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 9:47 am | Wintec
A lack of men in early childhood education has inspired Wintec Master of Applied Innovation student, Grayson Newton-Smith to create a book about restoring mana in men. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2107/cf120786a0546a717fe2.jpeg" ... More >>
Pasifika Scholarship Winners Aim To Address Inequality In NZ Health System
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 1:09 pm | Wintec
Four Pacific health students with a passion for social justice are the recipients of the inaugural Leaupepe Elisapeta (Peta) Karalus Scholarship at Wintec, Hamilton. Named after respected Pasifika health practitioner and advocate ... More >>
ELearning Programme Changing How STEM Is Taught In The Pacific
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 1:59 pm | Wintec
An eLearning project focussed on enhancing science teaching to Year 10 students in the Pacific Islands is being piloted this year through a programme created by partners Catalpa International, Nanogirl Labs and Wintec, and funded by the Ministry ... More >>
Enhancing Cultural Competency The Pasifika Way
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 8:27 am | Wintec
Raising equity and unleashing potential for Pasifika people in education starts with culturally competent educators and K’aute Pasifika and Wintec are working to address this in engaging ways. Pasifika leader Peta Karalus (right) is upskilling ... More >>
New Health Scholarships Launched For Pasifika Students At Wintec
Friday, 11 December 2020, 1:32 pm | Wintec
Wintec is proud to announce four new health study scholarships for Pasifika students, named after well-known national and Waikato Pasifika leader, Leaupepe Elisapeta (Peta) Karalus. Applications for the inaugural Leaupepe Elisapeta (Peta) Karalus Scholarships ... More >>
