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Whitireia Theatre set for “Zombie Prom” Show
Friday, 21 September 2012, 3:51 pm | Whitireia
Directed by award winning Lyndee-Jane Rutherford, with musical direction by Michael Nicholas Williams, Zombie Prom is shaping up to be a fun and hilarious show. More >>
‘Unfinished’ poem takes out the big prize
Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 10:11 am | Whitireia
21 year old poet and civil servant Briar Rose Davies has just won first prize in the 2012 Eat Your Words Wellington cafe poetry competition. Her poem, inspired by Wellington cafe Memphis Belle, beat out 360 other poems celebrating the capital’s ... More >>
Double celebrations for Whitireia this week
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 9:28 am | Whitireia
Tomorrow, 11 July at 4pm, a graduation ceremony will take place at the Whitireia Performance Centre in Wellington City, the first to be held at this venue. It will see students from the Faculty of Arts graduating from their programmes of study. More >>
Whitireia purchases The Film and Television School
Friday, 6 July 2012, 9:34 am | Whitireia
Whitireia New Zealand Limited has purchased The New Zealand Film and Television School in Wellington City. The purchase will see The New Zealand Film and Television School become part of the Whitireia group as of 1 July 2012. More >>
Korean Students Start At Whitireia
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 11:45 am | Whitireia
Whitireia has welcomed the first group of Korean students to its Porirua campus, under the Korean Government initiative, to offer tertiary training in hospitality and tourism, to scholarship students. More >>
New Deputy Chief Executive Named At Whitireia
Thursday, 31 May 2012, 9:36 am | Whitireia
Whitireia has announced the appointment of its new Deputy Chief Executive (Operational), Mr Chris Gosling. More >>
Whitireia acknowledges scholarship recipients
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 8:49 am | Whitireia
Thirteen students have been awarded Whitireia Secondary School Leaver Fee Scholarships for 2012. The students, all straight from secondary schools in the greater Wellington region have been given $4000 to go towards their first year of degree or diploma ... More >>
Whitireia host Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture
Monday, 13 February 2012, 6:35 pm | Whitireia
On Friday 10 February 2012, Whitireia hosted 11 delegates from the high level Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture headed by the Vice Minister of Education and Culture Mr Musliar Kasim. Delegates from the ministry were welcomed onto the Porirua Campus ... More >>
Relationship grows between Whitireia & Habitat for Humanity
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 3:44 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia New Zealand and Habitat for Humanity have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), for the building of a new house for a family in Porirua. Don Campbell, Chief Executive, Whitireia and Neil McDonald, Board Chairman, Habitat for Humanity Lower ... More >>
Porirua Performing Arts Theatre Funding Withdrawn
Monday, 19 December 2011, 4:18 pm | Whitireia
Chair of Whitireia NZ Council, Roger Sowry, announced today that the Council of Whitireia Polytechnic had decided to withdraw its funding for the Porirua Performing Arts Theatre. The theatre project, first planned several years ago, is a joint project with Porirua ... More >>
Building A Virtual Classroom
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:46 pm | Whitireia
A doctorate earnt investigating the development and use of 3D web-based learning environments. Virtual worlds. Sue Chard from Whitireia New Zealand has been awarded her doctorate from Curtin University, Perth. More >>
Kāpiti Whitireia on the move
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 2:32 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia in Kāpiti will be moving to a new temporary location in Paraparaumu while they await the completion of the redeveloped campus on the corner of Kapiti Road and Milne Drive. More >>
Maori Art Show: Smell And Taste of Childhood Memories
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 3:43 pm | Whitireia
Top chef Rex Morgan will add a sense of smell and taste to this year’s showcase MAORI ART MARKet being staged at Porirua’s Te Rauparaha Arena. Morgan will be running a demonstration series of contemporary Maori food, which he’s called “childhood ... More >>
Culinary delights impress judges
Friday, 3 June 2011, 12:03 pm | Whitireia
Students studying Professional Cookery at Whitireia scooped a number of awards at the 2011 Wellington Culinary Fare held as part of the Wellington Food show last weekend. More >>
Whitireia helping make dreams come true
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 3:38 pm | Whitireia
Whitireia has been committed to providing fee scholarships for local school leavers for three years now. 22 students have been awarded a Whitireia Secondary School Leaver Scholarship for 2011. The students, straight from local secondary schools have been ... More >>
Loss of a nationally respected scriptwriter saddens
Friday, 25 March 2011, 1:10 pm | Whitireia
Staff and students on the Writing Programme were saddened to hear of the recent death of Graeme Tetley, Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Whitireia, on Sunday 13 March. Graeme was one of New Zealand's leading scriptwriters, with credits including Out of the ... More >>
Whitireia celebrates success
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 12:45 pm | Whitireia
March will see over 470 students graduating from Whitireia New Zealand. On Thursday 24 March a graduation ceremony will take place at Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua. The ceremony at 1pm will see degree, diploma and postgraduate students from the Faculty ... More >>
25th birthday for Whitireia New Zealand
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 11:23 am | Whitireia
It was 25 years ago this week that Parumoana Community College was officially opened by Governor General Sir Paul Reeves as a tertiary education institute. It was a significant launch of an initiative to change the social outcomes for the area. Photographs documenting ... More >>
