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Foreign-language Bibles donated to Aoraki Polytech
Monday, 5 July 2010, 10:15 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic efforts to enhance pastoral care of its students and more effectively link with the international community in South Canterbury have received a boost with the donation last week of Bibles written in five languages. More >>
Aoraki student wins regional Leadership award
Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:39 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic Diploma in Management student Maria Fitzgerald has been awarded a regional leadership award by an Ashburton accountancy firm renowned for its support of up-and-coming young financial professionals. More >>
English language night classes to meet needs
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 10:40 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic has responded to a call from the community and is to set up English language night classes to help foreign nationals and ethnic groups in South Canterbury conduct business and go about their daily lives with a better understanding of our ... More >>
International marketing opens doors for students
Monday, 28 June 2010, 10:10 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Taking Aoraki Polytechnic’s skills-based education success message out to the world and bringing more international students back to its doors to enjoy “lifestyle” education in a safe, scenic and productive environment is a job that Stephen Pope ... More >>
NZ chefs take the cake
Monday, 28 June 2010, 10:02 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
NZ chefs take the cake – with a good old pork in the ribs for Aust More >>
Land-based Skills programme offers new opportunity
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 5:01 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
We drink it every day, but do we understand the milk production process? Many of us enjoy delicious lamb cutlets, and the profits from one of the world’s greatest meat exports, but do we know how a lamb is born? Our supermarkets are full of vegetables, ... More >>
Polytechnics make local history
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 9:42 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic and the Wellington-based Open Polytechnic of New Zealand have signed an historic agreement that offers to Aoraki business students a pathway to a business degree without them having to leave home for their studies. More >>
Aoraki With Open Polytechnic To Study From Timaru
Monday, 24 May 2010, 5:14 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic and the Wellington-based Open Polytechnic of New Zealand have signed an historic agreement that offers to Aoraki business students a pathway to a business degree without them having to leave home for their studies. More >>
Mental Health Workers May Have Diploma Options
Friday, 19 February 2010, 3:47 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic is calling for expressions of interest from mental health support workers for a possible diploma qualification that would add a layer of further training and qualifications at Level 6 level to the current National Certificate in Mental ... More >>
Back to school for teachers
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 5:58 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Secondary school cooking teachers across the South Canterbury region are calling for a repeat experience after enjoying what is believed to be a New Zealand first in interaction between secondary and tertiary education providers. More >>
Polytechnic plans farm initiative
Monday, 25 January 2010, 11:24 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Final touches are being put to a new land-based skills certificate package for 2010 that will signal the start of a revised agricultural and horticultural curriculum being introduced by Aoraki Polytechnic to its latest acquisition, the Washdyke Training ... More >>
Polytechnic purchases international colleges
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 9:54 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic has purchased the long-standing Timaru institutions Aoraki International College (AIC) and the Aoraki English Language College in a move that polytechnic chief executive Kay Nelson describes as an “exciting opportunity to increase the ... More >>
Timaru outdoor education instructor tops country
Friday, 4 December 2009, 5:10 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic outdoor education tutor Ian Logie has achieved the top New Zealand distinction in his field by being awarded the Outdoor Instructor of the Year Award. The programme co-ordinator of the polytechnic’s School of Outdoor Education, Mr ... More >>
Western coffee culture hits Asia
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 10:31 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
Rob Coulter knows his beans. The Aoraki Polytechnic hospitality tutor and barista trainer who has launched many young trainees on world careers in his 17 years with the institution always attracts a second glance from Timaru coffee shop staff when ... More >>
Award-Winning Author Inspired by Aoraki Course
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 5:19 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Award-winning author of fiction Sue Francis of Waihao Downs, near Waimate, knows how to inspire readers and judges with her literary craft and compelling stories. But the national winner of last month’s Sunday Star Times short story award also ... More >>
Aoraki Polytechnic group in conservation project
Monday, 5 October 2009, 3:13 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
Combining walking, breathtaking scenery, mountain air, camaraderie and environmental protection, Aoraki Polytechnic’s Third Age Adventures Group recently embraced Conservation Week – and earned special praise from Twizel Department of Conservation staff into ... More >>
Return-to-school fears melted at Aoraki Polytech
Monday, 28 September 2009, 5:08 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
It’s a fear many adults face when they first entertain the notion of learning extra skills and gaining extra qualifications to better themselves and their jobs – how will they cope going “back-to-school”? Margaret Bruce knows the feeling. School-day ... More >>
Aoraki student grasped art with both hands
Monday, 21 September 2009, 5:51 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
A popular South Canterbury artist who can use both his left and right hands to draw separate pictures at the same time and who presently has a major acrylic exhibition on show in Timaru, says he would be nowhere without Aoraki Polytechnic. More >>
Aoraki student grasped art with both hands
Monday, 21 September 2009, 5:28 pm | Aoraki Polytechnic
A popular South Canterbury artist who can use both his left and right hands to draw separate pictures at the same time and who presently has a major acrylic exhibition on show in Timaru, says he would be nowhere without Aoraki Polytechnic. More >>
Help at hand for elderly left out in internet cold
Saturday, 15 August 2009, 11:38 am | Aoraki Polytechnic
For every 100 elderly people in South Canterbury, 40 are being deprived of the banking, IRD, social, council, pharmaceutical, education and entertainment facilities they are entitled to, an elderly Timaru internet user estimates. More >>
