Cultivating the light of Matariki at Wintec
Wintec’s Matariki festival, Horahia Matariki 2019, promises a cultural, colourful and engaging experience with a stellar lineup of 20 events to celebrate the Māori New Year from 7 June – 28 July.
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Better health outcomes for Māori start with a culturally aware and responsive workforce
Creating educational programmes that ensure all graduates possess the knowledge and skills expected to engage effectively with whānau and Māori communities, is an important step towards reducing barriers and inequities for Māori in the health system.
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New teaching and learning approaches achieve results for nursing students
Blended learning and flipped classrooms are teaching terms synonymous with Wintec’s Ako Teaching and Learning Directions which have signalled a change in teaching delivery since 2017. But how are these approaches working with students?
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Who will be Waikato’s top performing secondary school athletes?
Wintec's Sport Science and Human Performance team is on a mission to find the most agile, powerful and fastest Waikato secondary school athletes to claim the Champion of the Codes title.
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People’s Choice winners steal the show at NZ Startup Bootcamp 2019
After 48 gruelling hours of innovation, hard work, many light bulb moments and countless coffees two teams came out on top of the NZ Startup Bootcamp, each taking home $10,000.
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From Hamilton to Bahrain – young chef shares his secrets
Joel Miller proves no dream is too big for an aspiring chef from Hamilton, New Zealand. He now cooks for the Royal family in Bahrain.
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Wintec nursing students at heart of exhibition in Hamilton’s CBD
Last month, Brave Hearts - The New Zealand Cardiac Story, was on display in Garden Place in Hamilton. Twenty-one Wintec nursing students were there too, running education sessions in the exhibition.
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Leading Chinese university looks to Wintec to deliver exercise as medicine
When we think of medicine in the western world, images of pills and potions come readily to mind but there’s a growing realisation that exercise is medicine too.
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New York dancer looks for true love in Hamilton theatre
Legendary Broadway musical, Sweet Charity is set to open in Hamilton from 21 June – 6 July and the show is also a classroom for the first students studying Wintec’s new Music and Performing Arts degree.
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You’re invited to lunch
Design Factory NZ is a constant hub-of-activity but on one Thursday a month, the activity stops and the attention is on a free public event, Lunchtime Learning.
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Wintec opens campuses for the public to explore
This Friday, 10 May, Wintec will open its Hamilton campuses for potential students to hear from experts, check out the facilities and find out what the future world of work means for them.
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New Wintec Council appointments
Two Waikato regional leaders Simon Lockwood and Vicky McLennan have been appointed to the Wintec Council.