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Nursing students promote health careers
Monday, 9 December 2019, 4:18 pm | Whitireia
New Zealand’s health sector is nearing a service delivery crisis, and the already struggling rural areas could be the worst hit if more nurses and doctors are not trained up to work in rural practices. More >>
First ever NZ qual for peer support
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 4:29 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia, in collaboration with Kites Trust, will offer the first national qualification in New Zealand for Peer Support. More >>
Whitireia supports move to regulate paramedics
Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 1:27 pm | Whitireia
Whitiriea strongly believes that paramedics must be recognised as registered health professionals in their own right. We welcome the announcement by the Government last week to register paramedics under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act ... More >>
Whitireia graduates and students take to the screen
Monday, 11 November 2019, 4:18 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia is delighted several of its Performing Arts students and graduates are performing in an exciting new TV series - Undertow - which has debuted on Māori Television. More >>
Whitireia Artists-in-Residence showcase work in Porirua
Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 3:39 pm | Whitireia
Three Pacific Artists-in-Residence at Whitireia have been selected to represent Tokelau at The Festival of Pacific Art & Culture in Hawaii in June 2020. More >>
Performing Arts students welcome you to Ngaro
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 12:17 pm | Whitireia
Welcome to Ngaro - “ Where it’s safe as houses and the houses are safe” - a two horse town smack bang in the heart of Godzone. More >>
Whitireia Stage and Screen Arts students present ‘Punk Rock’
Friday, 25 August 2017, 10:47 am | Whitireia
‘Punk Rock is not a musical genre. Punk Rock is not even as simple as a state of mind. Punk Rock is an energy of total interrogation’- Simon Stephens More >>
Whitireia students present ‘Love and Information’
Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 5:33 pm | Whitireia
The Whitireia Stage and Screen Arts programme presents Love and Information a play which is truly of our time. Twenty actors play over 100 characters who grapple with communicating in this complex age of information overload. Churchill explores the ... More >>
Whitireia supports International Day of Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 3:55 pm | Whitireia
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and this year’s theme – “Indigenous Peoples' Right to Education” – is a sentiment that Whitireia wholeheartedly supports. More >>
Visiting Canadian students celebrate Intl Nursing Day
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 3:29 pm | Whitireia
A group of six students and two tutors from the nursing programme at Canada’s Camosun College will celebrate International Nurses Day today in Porirua. More >>
Student touring with acclaimed dance company
Friday, 29 April 2016, 1:30 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia Performing Arts student Nazerene Paea will perform today with New Zealand/Samoa choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s dance company, MAU, at a UNESCO event in Paris to mark International Dance Day 2016. More >>
Whitireia lecturer using 3D technology
Tuesday, 26 April 2016, 4:39 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia design lecturer Alice Moore is hoping to finally complete the chess set carved by her great-grandfather during World War One by using 3D printing technology to recreate the piece he lost after he was wounded in battle. More >>
Whitireia hosts Australasian student paramedic conference
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 2:00 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia is currently hosting the inaugural Student Paramedics Australasia (SPA) conference at its Porirua Campus. More >>
Local student benefits from Whitireia scholarship
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 1:58 pm | Whitireia
Former Aotea College student Josh Casey is working towards a career in social and community work at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, and has been given a major boost with a secondary school leaver scholarship to help cover his fees. More >>
Woodstock reimagined
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 2:10 pm | Whitireia
Relive the spirit of the psychedelic 60s as the Whitireia School of Music presents Woodstock, music from the most influential music festival of all time, tonight at Meow. Students from the school’s certificate and degree programmes will play the ... More >>
Whitireia to host research symposium
Friday, 20 November 2015, 10:13 am | Whitireia
The third annual Whitireia and WelTec Research Symposium (WWRS), presented this year in association with the Open Polytechnic, will be held tomorrow at the Whitireia campus in Porirua. More >>
Whitireia Visual Arts presents “Flux”
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 1:47 pm | Whitireia
"Flux: A continuous change, the state of in-between. Whitireia Visual Arts students present a showcase of printmaking, painting, textiles and jewellery. Flux is the constant development and continuous flow of creative energy among students." More >>
Tutor finds inspiration at skills competition in Brazil
Monday, 14 September 2015, 1:36 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia tutor Sam Dean has just returned from the 2015 WorldSkills International competition in Brazil, where he served as the carpentry expert for the New Zealand team. More >>
Commercial Dance Variety Showcase; Serial Killer Barbie
Friday, 4 September 2015, 4:09 pm | Whitireia
September 10, 11 and 12 at 7pm with a matinee on Saturday 12th at 4pm. Come along and see our year one Commercial Dance students performing an exciting combination of the many dance genres that they specialise in here at the Whitireia Performance ... More >>
Tutor wants to see more women enter trade
Friday, 14 August 2015, 9:59 am | Whitireia
New Whitireia electrical engineering tutor Mary Graham hopes to see plenty of young women coming through the programme. More >>