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Ara’s Pride Week Profile Boosted By Ara Staff Involvement In Transgender Film Funding
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 10:41 am | Ara Institute
As New Zealand launches into Pride Week 2021, Grae Meek is busy at her day job but she’s also launching into pre-production for her first short film - appropriately enough, a story about a transgender woman returning home for a potentially tense ... More >>
Ara Maintains Leading Nursing Employment Rate
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 10:14 am | Ara Institute
Despite the challenges of COVID, Ara nursing graduates achieved extremely high rates of employment, with 98.5% of registered nursing graduates who sought work as an RN achieving success. Ara nursing employment rates are consistently amongst the top ... More >>
Ara Enterprise & Digital Innovation Department Offers Local Businesses Services From Its New ‘Tech Colab’
Monday, 1 March 2021, 3:02 pm | Ara Institute
At a time when an effective online presence is more important than ever, Ara has created a social enterprise through which local businesses and other organizations can access affordable digital solutions. Harnessing the talents of IT and business ... More >>
Ara Institute Of Canterbury Now Offering New Business And Innovation Courses
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 3:53 pm | Ara Institute
This year for the first time Ara Institute of Canterbury is offering learners the opportunity to enrol in courses designed to develop their own business and innovation ideas. The two courses - ‘Business Accelerator’ and ‘Innovation Accelerator’ ... More >>
Ara Launches New Cyber Security Course In 2021
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 11:31 am | Ara Institute
Ara Institute of Canterbury limited will be offering students within its Enterprise & Digital Innovation Department access to a highly-regarded ‘Cyber Security’ programme in 2021. The programme, developed by Unitec and supported by CCL and Datacom, ... More >>
Ara Architectural Studies Graduates Showcase The Shape Of Things To Come
Monday, 14 December 2020, 3:31 pm | Ara Institute
During the last week of November, a miniature city was created in the Kahukura Building at Ara - a truly diverse collection of buildings that could fill a metropolis that are actually alternate concepts for inner-city spaces in Christchurch. EXIT is the ... More >>
Ara First ITP To Gain IRD’s ‘Approved Researcher Provider’ Status
Monday, 14 December 2020, 2:58 pm | Ara Institute
The New Zealand IRD has recently confirmed that Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd has been granted ‘approved researcher provider’ status. This makes Ara the first ever ITP/Te Pūkenga subsidiary to have attained this. The country’s recently-enacted ... More >>
Ara Travel & Tourism Students Match Study’s Celebratory Mood
Friday, 4 December 2020, 11:08 am | Ara Institute
While in previous years ‘travel’ may have topped a list of New Zealanders’ goals, the arrival of COVID made this prospect recede into the hazy distance - for aspiring travellers globally. It also had profound repercussions for anyone planning ... More >>
Ara Engineering Student Takes Flight (And Makes It Better)
Thursday, 26 November 2020, 10:05 am | Ara Institute
Joshua Bensberg was surprised to be named both the winner for the ‘Best Project - Mechanical Engineering’ prize and ‘Industry Choice’ for his "TEKMIK Coaxial Rotor Configuration" project at the finale of Ara’s 2020 Engineering ... More >>
Ara Dual Enrolment Students Celebrate Their Double Year End
Tuesday, 10 November 2020, 3:48 pm | Ara Institute
On Friday 6 November, Ara dual enrolment students celebrated the end of a successful year’s study - despite COVID - at both their high schools and at Ara. The event, which was held at Ara’s Woolston campus, featured an eye-popping array of new powertools ... More >>
Ara Institute Of Canterbury's Amit Sarkar Recognized As 'smart City Expert'
Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 12:17 pm | Ara Institute
Prolific Ara researcher and tutor Amit Sarkar has recently been described as a ‘smart city’ expert after a project that he worked on won a City of Regensburg civic award for sustainable local government practices. The award, presented on October 7th at ... More >>
Ara Hosts Kaharoa Manihera At Business Breakfast During Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori 2020
Monday, 5 October 2020, 1:20 pm | Ara Institute
On Thursday the 17th, The Business Development Team held an event to acknowledge Te Reo and Tikanga Māori at Ara Visions Restaurant during the national Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori within Mahuru Māori 2020. The kaikōrero (speaker) featured during ... More >>
Sport & Exercise Science Students Get Their Horizons Widened About What It Means To Be An Athlete
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 12:45 pm | Ara Institute
On Tuesday September 1st, Ara Institute of Canterbury was host to speakers from ParaFed Canterbury and to Cody Everson, co-captain of the Wheel Blacks, who were invited to speak to students from the sport and exercise science specialisation within More >>
Ara Included In New CoVE To Deliver Excellence In Food And Fibre Sectors
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 9:19 am | Ara Institute
The new Food and Fibre Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) announced on September 3rd is a wide-ranging collaboration involving 54 organisations with expertise spanning across the entire food and fibre sector. This includes Ara Institute of Canterbury ... More >>
Southern Series Start-up Workshops @ Ara Get Off To A Great Start In Ashburton
Friday, 21 August 2020, 11:43 am | Ara Institute
Last week Ara Institute of Canterbury, in partnership with the Ashburton District Council, Te Ōhaka and the Ministry of Awesome held a series of start-up workshops for the people of Ashburton and surrounding areas. During the day-long event, a range ... More >>
Ara Announces BARJ – Joint Digital Development At Bosch, Ara, OTH Regensburg And Jade Software
Monday, 10 August 2020, 3:58 pm | Ara Institute
On the 27th of July, Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd announced the launch of a formal collaboration and research partnership with global brands Bosch, Jade Software and Regensburg University. Lead Researcher Amit Sarkar, a senior tutor within the Enterprise ... More >>
Ara Applauds Education New Zealand’s Innovation Healthcare Challenge Winners
Friday, 26 June 2020, 2:03 pm | Ara Institute
ChristchurchNZ’s Emerging Future’s Two Week Innovation Healthcare Challenge has just finished, with Team Aritma emerging as the ‘Judges Choice’ and Team Glimpse as the ‘People’s Choice’ winners after a live-stream final pitch to ... More >>
Ara Helps Light Up Christchurch’s City At Night This July
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 10:09 am | Ara Institute
Tim Budgen from Ara Art and Design will be re-vamping his mesmerizing LED art installation piece ‘Reflections’, with the help of Ara Motion Design students, as a part of the Christchurch City Council’s July-long ‘CHCH IS LIT’ art happening. The ... More >>
Ara Colleague Recognised In 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honors List
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 10:19 am | Ara Institute
A number of colleagues, past and present who have held positions at CPIT/Ara, were awarded Queen’s Birthday honours. These include: DNZM Mrs Aroha Reriti-Crofts – for services to Māori and the community. Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts has been honoured ... More >>
Ara, The Ashburton District Council And The MSD Offer Support For Jobseekers
Monday, 8 June 2020, 9:13 am | Ara Institute
In collaboration with the Ashburton District Council and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd has developed a new series of job seeker workshops. In recognition of the impact that COVID-19 has had upon New ... More >>
