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TPP’s Annual Report Highlights Successful Year
Friday, 24 May 2013, 9:01 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
2012 was a very successful year for Tai Poutini Polytechnic with improved educational performance in a number of areas and a positive financial result. More >>
MAINZ staff saddened by the death of Dave McArtney
Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 3:59 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Staff from the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) and Tai Poutini Polytechnic say they will miss an inspirational colleague, friend and musician following the death of Dave McArtney. More >>
Emergency management moves to the Coast
Monday, 25 February 2013, 10:11 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Managers at Tai Poutini Polytechnic are impressed at the high calibre of local search and rescue experts they have found after relocating the Emergency Management department to Greymouth. More >>
Greymouth Better Prepared For Civil Defence Emergency
Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 10:22 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Greymouth Better Prepared For Civil Defence Emergency The first person to graduate with a Diploma in Applied Emergency Management from Tai Poutini Polytechnic believes Greymouth is now better prepared to cope with a disaster. Grey District Council’s ... More >>
Spring Creek miners start training for work in Christchurch
Monday, 5 November 2012, 11:56 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Up to 50 redundant workers from Solid Energy’s Spring Creek mine are to start civil construction training in Greymouth in order to work on the Christchurch horizontal rebuild. More >>
Student makes Coast to Coast journey in appalling conditions
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 11:12 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
A 24-year-old Wellington student has battled some of the South Island’s worst weather to complete a 14-day solo coast to coast expedition raising money for asthma research. More >>
Polytechnic collaboration benefits West Coast
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 9:08 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Open Polytechnic collaboration benefits West Coast In a first for the West Coast, students who have completed the New Zealand Diploma in Business with Tai Poutini Polytechnic will now be able to enrol in a Bachelor of ... More >>
School of Mining to help stem shortage of trained miners
Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 5:54 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
An acute shortage of trained professionals in the minerals industry has prompted Tai Poutini Polytechnic (TPP) to establish a School of Mining that will provide access to industry training up to degree level. More >>
High Street coming back to life as MAINZ students return
Monday, 16 July 2012, 4:04 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Christchurch’s High Street is to regain some of its old energy as music and audio students return to MAINZ’s High Street campus. Forty students from Tai Poutini Polytechnic’s Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) will resume their ... More >>
High Street coming back to life as MAINZ students return
Monday, 16 July 2012, 3:52 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Christchurch’s High Street is to regain some of its old energy as music and audio students return to MAINZ’s High Street campus. More >>
Smallest steam train takes out award
Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 1:06 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
A 91-yearold steam locomotive that is thought to be the country’s smallest has won a prestigious restoration award. The Steam Locomotive Restoration award was last night presented to the team from Silver Stream Railway that preserved Locomotive ... More >>
Exchange with Chile offers opportunities
Monday, 30 January 2012, 2:48 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
A new relationship between Tai Poutini Polytechnic and a Chilean outdoor education provider will see students travel to Chile and Antarctica every year and could lead to TPP hosting international MBA students on the West Coast. More >>
NZQA Confident in Tai Poutini Polytechnic’s Performance
Friday, 2 December 2011, 11:43 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
The high value of Tai Poutini Polytechnic’s programmes for its students and stakeholders, and the dedication of its tutors, has been recognised in an NZQA External Evaluation and Review report which has just been released. More >>
New adventure tourism regulations changing education options
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 11:57 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
New adventure tourism regulations aimed at improving safety take effect this month prompting the country’s longest running outdoor education provider to offer a new qualification for outdoor educators and guides. More >>
Unemployed youth being targeted as trainee scaffolders
Monday, 3 October 2011, 2:47 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
The scaffolding industry is recruiting new trainees direct from the Limited Service Volunteer programme to help boost the workforce for Christchurch’s rebuild. The Limited Service Volunteer (LSV) programme is a six-week residential course for unemployed ... More >>
Scaffolding student reaches new heights
Sunday, 24 July 2011, 8:13 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Scaffolding student reaches new heights A 25 year old Mangakino man has been named the country’s top student scaffolder. Allan Ngatai Thompson, who works for Riteway Rigging and Scaffolding in Kawerau, was presented with the Scaffold Trainee of the ... More >>
Locomotive steams to the top
Monday, 6 June 2011, 1:13 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
A 145 ton steam train partly restored by volunteers at Glenbrook Vintage Railway has taken out a top restoration award. Locomotive Ka942 has won the Steam Locomotive Restoration Award at the Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand (FRONZ) ... More >>
Shortage Of Drillers Means Graduates Earning Big Bucks
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 11:48 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
There are not many industries where you can train for five months and potentially be earning $100 thousand dollars only a year after graduating. But a shortage of experienced drillers means those sort of salaries are being offered in order to keep ... More >>
Shortage of trained hospitality staff
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 12:20 pm | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
The hospitality industry is crying out for trained staff with figures showing 70 per cent of people working in the industry have only a school qualification or less. A report by the Hospitality Standards Institute has found the hospitality workforce ... More >>
Adventure Tourism Review Good For Industry
Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 9:23 am | Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Media release Tuesday 30 August 2010 Adventure Tourism Review Good For Industry And Training - TPP Tai Poutini Polytechnic, the first training institute in New Zealand to offer outdoor recreation programmes, says the Adventure Tourism Review recommendations ... More >>
