Wintec graduate "TikToks" all the right boxes
Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Communication graduate Jamie Batters finished her degree in 2022 and is already bringing social media knowledge and next generation insight into the workplace.
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New Pacific project set to support ākonga through collaborative partnership
A collaborative partnership between Wintec | Te Pūkenga, Te Whatu Ora NZ and the Ministry of Social Development has seen the launch of a new project specifically for Pacific ākonga. The Wayfinder project, a Pacific workforce guided pathway with a focus on health programmes.
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Wintec makes significant progress in reducing gender and ethnicity pay gaps
Wintec | Te Pūkenga, which last year was the first tertiary institution in Aotearoa to announce its gender and ethnicity pay gap information on the Pay Gap Registry, has made substantial progress in reducing both its gender and ethnicity pay gaps over the last 12 months.
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Wintec | Te Pūkenga design graduate finds her niche working with clay
A tutor introduced Bachelor of Design graduate Brogan Houghton to local business Mystery Creek Ceramics during her final year at Wintec. Now, thanks to that connection and her growing interest in clay, Houghton is employed there as a studio potter.
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Celebrating Wintec wāhine: Nima Riini
International Women’s Day was on Wednesday this week and this year’s theme was #EmbraceEquity. We're celebrating each day this week with a profile of a Wintec | Te Pūkenga kaimahi member or ākonga. Nima Riini is the Wintec | Te Pūkenga Industry Relationship Manager, her role keeps her busy helping our students, on top of which she is also studying towards her master’s degree.
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Celebrating Wintec wāhine: Bayley Wilkie
International Women’s Day was yesterday, Wednesday 8 March, and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. We’re celebrating each day this week with a profile of a Wintec | Te Pūkenga kaimahi or ākonga. Bayley Wilkie is a fourth-year apprentice studying plumbing, drain laying and gas fitting at Wintec. Read on to learn why she loves the male dominated industry she has picked.
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Celebrating Wintec wāhine: Hiria Cameron
It’s International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. We’re celebrating each day this week with a profile of a Wintec | Te Pūkenga kaimahi or ākonga. Hiria Cameron is the Executive Strategic lead – Tōia Mai. Her role is to support and oversee the embedding of the Tōia Mai Excellence Framework to ensure Wintec | Te Pūkenga is moving towards tangible, system-wide change that fosters improved equitable outcomes for Māori, Pacific and all other learners, in the context of Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnerships.
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Birdsongs of the Anthropocene: Wintec academics’ new exhibition spotlights our changing relationship with the natural world
It started off with a curiosity around seabirds. “They’re a great indicator of the health of the planet,” says Dr Vicki Kerr, co-creator of the exhibition titled Performing Nature Unnaturally. The new exhibition at Ramp Gallery in Hamilton explores overlaps between bird calls and human modes of communication through music and photography genres, open from 21 February - 17 March.
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Celebrating Wintec wāhine: Peony Smith
It's International Women’s Day this Wednesday and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. We’re celebrating each day this week with a profile of a Wintec | Te Pūkenga kaimahi or ākonga. Peony Smith is currently studying her final semester to gain her Bachelor of Applied IT in Software Engineering at Wintec | Te Pūkenga, as well as interning as a Junior Business Analyst at Spark.
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Celebrating Wintec wāhine: Amy Opperman
This Wednesday, 8 March is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. We’re celebrating each day this week with a profile of a Wintec | Te Pūkenga kaimahi or ākonga. First up we have our Team Manager for Plumbing and Industrial Measurement Controls at our Centre for Trades, Amy Opperman.
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Wintec|Te Pūkenga launches new cultural capability framework Whakatupu Kaiako, Whakatupu Tāngata
Through the work of Tōia Mai, Wintec|Te Pūkenga is on an exciting journey to improve outcomes for ākonga by launching a new cultural competency and capability framework, Whakatupu Kaiako, Whakatupu Tāngata. With a focus on the cultural growth and development of kaiako and kaimahi the Whakatupu Kaiako, Whakatupu Tāngata framework aims to guide staff at Wintec I Te Pūkenga through a cycle of ongoing professional growth and development.
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From teacher, to student, to new career in HR, all in 12 months!
Marian Conder is in her mid-40s and has had a 20-year career as a primary school teacher, but at the end of 2021 she decided she wanted a change. Marian has now completed her Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management at Wintec and landed a job in the industry. We recently caught up with her to learn about her experience as a mature student and what it was like to make such a big change.
