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Future Hospitality Hotshots Set To Take On Waikato Culinary Fare
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 11:50 am | Wintec
Students from across the North Island are preparing to sharpen their knives and their skills at this year’s annual Waikato Culinary Fare. More >>
Century Old Harakeke Gifted To Wintec Māori Midwifery Students As Resource To Make Muka Pito
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 5:01 pm | Wintec
Left to right back: Alroy Walker, Faye Blossom, Janet Taiatini, Ada Te Huia, Rosemary Murray, and De Cleaver. Left to right front: Wintec Midwifery ākonga Sarah Richards and Hinemoa Mills. (Photo/Supplied) Muka Pito, an alternative and traditional way ... More >>
Shining A Light On Wintec Refugee Students For World Refugee Day
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 3:43 pm | Wintec
World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and shines a light on the rights, needs, and dreams of those forced to flee. More >>
Wintec Students Collaborate To Educate The Community Around Diabetes And Fall-prevention
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1:02 pm | Wintec
Another key objective of the service was to respond to the health needs of the community, providing a service that positively impacts the health status of those in areas where there is the greatest need. More >>
Award-winning Wintec Wāhine Plumbing Student Riding A Pipeline Of Success
Monday, 27 May 2024, 3:10 pm | Wintec
Maria is currently completing her apprenticeship at Morrinsville Plumbing and Gas Services (MPG). She wraps that up in August and from there will be set to graduate from Wintec next year. Along the way she has picked up several accolades and become ... More >>
Students Have Their Moment To Shine On Stage At Wintec Graduation Celebrations
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 7:17 pm | Wintec
Wintec graduates from across all disciplines were encouraged to push boundaries, be authentic, better themselves, learn from failure and grab their dreams at the 2024 Wintec Graduation ceremonies. More than 2000 students graduated from Wintec ... More >>
Accolades Flow For Wintec’s Māori And Pacific Plumbing Kaimahi And Ākonga
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 8:14 pm | Wintec
2023 was a piping hot year for Māori and Pacific plumbing kaimahi (staff) and ākonga (students) at Wintec | Te Pūkenga, with a surge of accolades highlighting the calibre of Wintec’s plumbing whānau both on the teaching staff and in the classroom. A ... More >>
Poster Exhibition Gives Voice To Elders And Connects Students Across The Globe
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 5:54 pm | Wintec
If you could give one piece of advice to the people of your city, in 20 words or less, what would it be? Design students across three countries proposed this question to elders within their community for a public good poster project called Hear Us ... More >>
New Research Out Of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Paving The Way For Ultra-marathon Performance
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 10:37 am | Wintec
New research to support peak performance in ultramarathon running, conducted by Russell Best, Principal Academic Staff Member at Wintec | Te Pūkenga Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance, and his international collaborators, is having ... More >>
Te Pūkenga Performing Arts “Nods And Winks To Old Shows” In Broadway Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 10:35 am | Wintec
he Theatre stream of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts is getting ready for its end-of-year musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. The show brings together all ākonga from Year 2 and 3 of the degree under the astute guidance of ... More >>
Wintec Supporting Pacific Scholars To Gain Skills To Benefit Their Home Communities
Monday, 30 October 2023, 5:43 pm | Wintec
Pacific Short Term Training Scholarship (STTS) recipients are studying at Wintec | Te Pūkenga to gain skills they can take home to improve their local communities. Pictured left to right: Back row - Robert (Solomon Islands), Brendon (Solomon Islands), ... More >>
Exceptional Adult Learners Recognised During Adult Learners' Week
Friday, 8 September 2023, 5:09 pm | Wintec
Wintec | Te Pūkenga celebrated the success of its top adult learners through the annual Adult Learners Awards. The celebration is a part of Adult Learners’ Week, He Tangata Matauranga, an initiative Wintec has been supporting since 2004. The Adult ... More >>
Coaching Special Olympics Athletes To Shoot For The Stars
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 8:56 pm | Wintec
About 12 years ago Simone Kokaua’s nephew Richie, who has diverse needs, got into playing basketball and her sister asked her to drive the bus for the team one day. This experience led to her volunteer to coach one of the teams after witnessing how ... More >>
Wintec Celebrates 30 Years Of Ground-breaking Māori Nursing Programme This International Nurses Day
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 6:58 pm | Wintec
This International Nurses Day, Wintec | Te Pūkenga will be celebrating a major milestone for its Tihei Mauri Ora Māori nursing programme, which has been improving Māori health outcomes in the community for 30 years. On Friday 12 May, founders ... More >>
Wintec Boosts Census Numbers For Stats NZ
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 1:21 pm | Wintec
Wintec helped Stats NZ give 2023 Census numbers a boost through their student hubs. With more 2023 Census forms to be returned to Stats NZ, and factors such as recent extreme weather impacting participation, Waikato Area Manager for Statistics New ... More >>
Wintec Committed To Transparency Around Pay Equity
Monday, 30 May 2022, 3:53 pm | Wintec
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), one of the Waikato's largest employers, has led the way by sharing its current pay gap figures and its commitment to transparency around pay equity. Wintec is the first tertiary institution in Aotearoa to announce ... More >>
Wintec Initiative Delivers Critical Support To The Elderly During Lockdown
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1:17 pm | Wintec
When Covid-19 hit first hit Aotearoa New Zealand, some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable people became isolated. Wintec nursing students stepped up to help, demonstrating why our health response needs to be more agile and inclusive than ever. At 1.30pm ... More >>
Scholarships Support More Pacific And Māori People Into Health Careers
Thursday, 3 February 2022, 1:25 pm | Wintec
There is still time to apply for health scholarships at Wintec that are making a significant difference to Māori and Pacific students in their pathway to success in health careers. This year, the Dame Te Ātairangikaahu Nursing Scholarship will ... More >>
Te Pūkenga And Wintec To Launch Ground-breaking Community Health Clinics
Thursday, 16 December 2021, 1:15 pm | Wintec
A ground-breaking, community health education model will launch at Wintec in Kirikiriroa Hamilton from 2022, where ākonga/learners studying health and sport-related disciplines will learn in supervised working clinics. The project, He Kaupapa Oranga Tahi is ... More >>
Wayfinding Project Puts Te Tiriti And Te Reo Māori First
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:57 am | Wintec
Four years ago, Wintec academic, Luke McConnell made a note to do a bilingual wayfinding project with his third-year design tauira/students. Back then it felt like a good idea but as time went by, he realised the potential for designers to develop skills ... More >>