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22 May 2020

Whitireia Nursing Graduate and Tutor Helps Set Up New Zealand’s Covid Close Contact Tracing Centre

The Ministry of Health called on five senior nurses, called ‘clinical leads’, to help set up a National Close Contact Tracing Centre with an overall objective to prevent the spread of COVID-19. read more

8 May 2020

Jeanette Grace appointed to the Academic Board of the NZIST Council

We’re delighted to announce that Whitireia Dean of Te Wananga Māori, Jeanette Grace, has been appointed to the Academic Board of the newly formed New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology... read more

6 May 2020

WelTec Robotics Tutor Creates Real-time Map of PPE demand across New Zealand

As part of his volunteer work for ShieldsUp, an organisation established at the start of lockdown which called on volunteers to 3D print personal protective equipment (PPE) to fill the shortage gap... read more

28 April 2020

Engineering Tutor Dr Najif Ismail receives Ivan Skinner Award

Engineering tutor Dr Najif Ismail received the 2020 EQC/New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Ivan Skinner Award this week. read more

21 April 2020

Whitireia Uses Avatar Games To Take Hands-on Lab Learning For Its Nurses Online

Whitireia has quickly pivoted to using its cutting-edge online virtual reality programmes to ensure that its nursing students can continue with the practical elements of their programmes while in... read more

15 April 2020

Weltec Offer Two-Year Youth Work Diploma As Need For Experts To Grow In A Post-COVID World

Weltec is offering a level 6, two-year full-time diploma in Youth Work as the need for youth workers in New Zealand continues to rise. read more

15 April 2020

Wellington-based Engineering Firm DTCE Awards Weltec Student Scholarship

$3000 scholarship and future job opportunity post-COVIDWellington-based structural engineering firm DTCE has awarded a scholarship to a promising engineering student as part of efforts to encourage... read more

7 April 2020

Joined forces: Wellington's polytechs now part of new vocational institute

The country's new mega polytechnic, the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, has held its inaugural meeting.While the new institute will eventually take over 16 polytechnics across the... read more

1 April 2020

Whitireia and WelTec courses start remotely from this week

Over the next few weeks we’ll restart teaching the majority of our courses and programmes online to help you get into a normal routine while New Zealand is in lockdown for Covid-19.
Your tutor will... read more

1 April 2020

Whitireia and WelTec now subsidiaries of the Institute of Skills & Technology

As at today (1 April 2020), Whitireia and WelTec are limited liability companies (legally known as Whitireia Community Polytechnic Limited and Wellington Institute of Technology Limited) and... read more