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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 >>

Studying Animal Care a Pathway to New Career

Thursday, 11 July 2013, 2:45 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

“I was looking for a change and saw this course,” he says of the National Certificate in Animal Care. Shortly after starting at EIT, he was offered a part-time position at the SPCA Hastings and Districts’ centre in Heathcote Road. “That worked in ... More >>

Pouwhenua Protect Children’s Centre

Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 2:00 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

Youngsters at Otatara Children’s Centre are learning more about Maoritanga with their own guardians or kaitiaki protecting the on-campus site. EIT kaumatua Matiu Eru blessed the centre’s kaitiakI, in this case traditional carved poles or pouwhenua, ... More >>

Maori Name for EIT

Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 2:38 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

Te Aho a Māui is to sit alongside EIT- Eastern Institute of Technology as the formal Māori name for the East Coast’s leading tertiary education institution. More >>

Young Talent Exhibits At Art-x

Monday, 1 July 2013, 3:18 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

A second-year Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design student at EIT’s ideaschool, Sophie was invited to take part in the exhibition and sale by the Rotary Club of Greenmeadows, which organises and runs the annual event. More >>

Collaborating in Creative Practice

Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:35 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

Keynote speakers will promote the importance of collaboration and networking at next month’s Winter Art Symposium. More >>

Symposium to Encourage Visual Artists

Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 5:14 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

A career connection and a shared love of the arts have triggered the upcoming Hawke’s Bay-based symposium of workshops for artists wanting to grow their creative practices. More >>

Search for Design Talent Widens

Friday, 7 June 2013, 1:47 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

Last year’s inaugural Design Distinctions Awards were such a success, they have been made even bigger. A collaboration involving EIT Hawke’s Bay’s ideaschool, UCOL and the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, the dDawards were created ... More >>

Research Reveals Hawke’s Bay Success Against Family Violence

Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 2:53 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

EIT research has found DOVE’s services are effective in reducing the problem of family violence in Hawke’s Bay. Eastern Police District records have shown call-out rates for family violence are above the national average. More >>

Art Students Support Classmates through Kidney Transplant

Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 10:21 am | Eastern Institute of Technology

EIT ideaschool students are rallying round to help classmate Michael Batista who was run over by a truck as a youngster, losing a leg and subsequently his kidneys. More >>

Siblings Rated Among Region’s Top Apprentices

Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 11:09 am | Eastern Institute of Technology

Originally from Waipukurau and now flatting in Hastings, brother and sister Robert and Hilary Wroe double-dipped when they each won a category in the region’s apprentice awards. More >>

EIT Rated One of New Zealand’s Top Institutes of Technology

Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 12:26 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology

EIT has been ranked in the top two institutes of technology in New Zealand in the just-released official ranking of research capability at New Zealand universities, institutes of technology and other tertiary education providers. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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