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• Gaining Global Insights and Connections: Aotearoa, New Zealand experience brings valuable learning back home to Singapore

  20 Mar 2024

  Making connections around the world was on the agenda for the Design Factory team members from Singapore Institute of Technology [SIT]. Drawn to Design Factory New Zealand's [DFNZ] focus on student-centred learning, their team from Singapore came together to connect and tour innovation hubs within the Waikato. Their first visit was with world-leading animal management and security company, Gallagher.

• Ōtorohanga Mayor to welcome ākonga to Wintec’s first Certificate in Health and Wellbeing in the region

  20 Feb 2024

  This week marks an exciting milestone for the Ōtorohanga and King Country communities as Wintec delivers its New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing qualification for the first time at its regional hub in Ōtorohanga. Mayor of Ōtorohanga, Max Baxter, who will be addressing the first cohort of ākonga (students) on their opening day of the course said, “it is fantastic that Wintec has chosen Ōtorohanga as a campus to provide the opportunity for people in our district to study for a New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing.”

• Accolades flow for Wintec’s Māori and Pacific plumbing kaimahi and ākonga

  08 Feb 2024

  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.

• Unleashing moments of creativity: Enriching the lives of young mothers and their tamariki

  23 Jan 2024

  Multi-disciplinary artist Emiko Sheehan has developed a community-based art collective for young mothers called Wāwāhi Tahā based around tikanga Māori. She is taking part in the summer residency at Ramp Gallery holding workshops and gatherings for the community.

• Wintec helping bring student-centred teaching and learning to the world

  16 Jan 2024

  A powerful new combination of micro-credentials and blended learning environments is helping Wintec’s Centre for Education and Foundation Pathways bring student-centred teaching and learning to the world. Wintec Team Manager and Academic Lead Adie Haultain, along with Professional Development & Adult Learning Kaiako Aidan Bigham, have recently returned from Nantong in China, where they have been helping practicing teachers learn the concepts of student-centred teaching and learning.

• Wintec achieves near-perfect pass rates for nursing and midwifery programmes

  19 Dec 2023

  Wintec | Te Pūkenga is celebrating another year of remarkable achievements in the 2023 national exams leading to registration as a nurse or midwife in New Zealand. Achieving near-perfect pass rates across the nursing and midwifery qualifications, Wintec continues to break down barriers for those passionate about a career in nursing or midwifery.

• Poster exhibition gives voice to elders and connects students across the globe

  12 Dec 2023

  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 Out. Wintec | Te Pūkenga design tutor and researcher Luke McConnell says he’s been dreaming up this project for some time – looking for a non-commercial way to incorporate the art of poster design.

• New research out of Wintec | Te Pūkenga paving the way for ultra-marathon performance

  05 Dec 2023

  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 an immediate impact in the field.

• Preparing ākonga for the collaborative future of healthcare

  30 Nov 2023

  A newly built home for an ākonga-assisted health and wellbeing service has been officially opened at the Rotokauri campus of Wintec | Te Pūkenga. Te Kotahi Oranga | Health and Wellness Centre focuses on embedding interprofessional collaboration in training so ākonga can develop and hone their practical skills and experience.

• Wintec | Te Pūkenga student designers pitch their ideas for new bilingual signage at Port Waikato

  27 Nov 2023

  Final year Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Design students studying Visual Communication have been set a task to develop designs for a series of bilingual (English and Te Reo Māori) outdoor signs which present site-specific narratives to the local community, mana whenua, and visitors to the coastal town of Port Waikato.

• Wintec | Te Pūkenga Performing Arts "nods and winks to old shows" in Broadway musical, The Drowsy Chaperone

  14 Nov 2023

  The Theatre stream of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts is getting ready for its end-of-year musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. Billed as a “musical within a comedy”, this year’s offering promises to be a hilarious night out at the theatre. At its heart, The Drowsy Chaperone is an affectionate send-up of all the tropes and conventions of classic Broadway musicals.

• Wintec School of Media Arts opens doors for another action-packed Creative Showcase

  13 Nov 2023

  Wintec | Te Pūkenga Media Arts ākonga are extremely excited to share their creative work this year. Graduating Art and Design, Communication, and Music and Performing Arts students will display their work at multiple events during 15-25 November. The showcase is a window into the creativity of Media Arts ākonga (students) from across the disciplines and these events celebrate this fresh talent and hard work in front of an audience of peers, whānau and the wider community.

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