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Music Studies Finish On a High Note
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 4:03 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
In a final, polished performance staged at Shed 2, EIT music students showcased skills they have fine-tuned over the past year. While tutors were there assessing the students on their performances, the evening was also a celebration – the “wrap party” ... More >>
Variety Captured In Graduate Art
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 3:08 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
A dazzling diversity of art and design was unveiled at the ideaschool graduate exhibition opening held on campus at EIT Hawke’s Bay last week. More >>
Screen Production Students Premiere Their Movies
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 1:03 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
At the invitation-only evening staged at Napier’s Reading Cinema, 17 final-year students showcased their scriptwriting, design, directing, acting, camera, lighting, sound and editing skills with movies covering genres that included drama, the surreal, ... More >>
Young Canadian Chooses EIT for Wine Studies
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 3:16 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Touring New Zealand during his gap year, Canadian Wes Johnson never dreamt he would return to study wine science at EIT. Like many school leavers, Wes wasn’t too sure about what tertiary course to take at university in Canada. More >>
Transformers – More than Meet the Eye
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 4:16 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
EIT ideaschool student Tara Cooney is using her artistic skills to weave great yarns about Napier’s heritage. More >>
Award Winner Happy Making Art
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 4:05 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Winner of this year’s prestigious David Fine Scholarship, Susan Mabin experienced “an explosion of creativity” when she launched into art studies at EIT’s ideaschool. More >>
Ideaschool’s Reshaped Degree Attracts Other Educators
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 11:56 am | Eastern Institute of Technology
Interest in EIT’s project-based arts and design degree has triggered Government-funded research aimed at helping other tertiary educators develop similar programmes. More >>
Lecture on Women’s Role in Reducing Child Abuse Rates
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 11:04 am | Eastern Institute of Technology
Former prison manager Celia Lashlie is to deliver a free public lecture at EIT Hawke’s Bay. More >>
Young Film Maker Basks in International Limelight
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 12:26 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Trained at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke’s Bay, film maker Mathew Watkins has hit the big time in the USA with a huge win at the internationally-acclaimed Atlanta Horror Film Festival. More >>
Kiwi Makes the Cut for US Film Festival
Friday, 11 October 2013, 3:17 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
The last fortnight has been a scramble for EIT-trained filmmaker Mathew Watkins, fast-tracking a passport and booking flights to see his short movie Divide make its international debut at the upcoming Atlanta Horror Film Festival. More >>
Vet Nurse Relishes Late Vocation
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 3:25 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Helping treat injured and sick animals is sometimes sad, occasionally dangerous but always exciting, Yvonne Haren says of working as a veterinary nurse. More >>
Teachers Offered Ideashare Workshops
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 11:23 am | Eastern Institute of Technology
Design and photography teacher at Sacred Heart College, Ashton Northcott – formerly a top degree student at EIT – uses ideaschool’s laser cutter to create a woodcut. More >>
Fashion Student Designs Storm Catwalk
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 4:18 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Gearing up for the recent Te Koanga Maori Fashion Show, EIT ideaschool student Grace Evania wasn’t bothered if her design was the brightest on the catwalk. More >>
Hawke’s Bay’s Hospitality Team Hauls In the Medals
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 3:13 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
EIT student Stacey McCann overcame jangly nerves to strike gold in Toque d’Or, the country’s most prestigious student cookery and food service competition held recently in Auckland. More >>
Student’s Bright Idea Wins National Design Award
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 1:31 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
EIT ideaschool student Hayden Maunsell has won the supreme award in this year’s ECC Student Craft/Design Awards by seducing the judges with an “exquisitely crafted” table lamp. More >>
Exchange Scholars Share Interest In Wine
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 1:59 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Visiting EIT’s Centre for Wine and Viticulture, Italian Alice Bottarel was finding her Bragato Student Exchange Scholarship “a beautiful opportunity” to learn about New Zealand’s celebrated wine industry. More >>
Helping Educate under-25 Tertiary Students
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 11:47 am | Eastern Institute of Technology
EIT has spearheaded a significant multi-educator research project aimed at enhancing the teaching of younger students attending tertiary institutions nationwide. More >>
EIT Students Star at Hokonui Fashion Awards
Friday, 2 August 2013, 2:49 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Star achievers in the Hokonui Fashion Design Awards, Tessa Paaymans and Victoria Notoa are shaping up promising careers as they look ahead to completing their studies at EIT. More >>
Toihoukura Create Panels For the UN In New York
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 2:20 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Toihoukura is again creating history with perhaps the “most exciting delivery of Maori art for indigenous peoples in the world for the last 25 years”. This time, it is Toihoukura’s weavers who have been part of a project to create 50 panels ... More >>
A Taste of EIT
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 1:54 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Would-be tertiary students have responded in record numbers to the opportunity for a free taste of life at EIT. For Year 11-13 school students and teenagers who have already left school, this week’s taste @ EIT is an opportunity to find out more ... More >>