Unitec News

Scholarships provide financial support and business mentoring for Unitec students.

Nine Unitec students were recently selected for the 2013 Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA), and their achievements recognised at an official gathering last week.

12 Unitec students have been awarded Men’s Health Scholarships by the New Zealand Men’s Health Trust (NZMHT), at an awards event held at Unitec’s Mt. Albert campus.

Right now Unitec is experiencing technical issues across its three campuses that may impact students and staff.

CMC Limited and Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand today announced launch of two vocational education programs aimed at building highly skilled manpower for the Construction Industry and for meeting the demand of high end areas in the IT Industry. These programs would be initially offered at CMC Academy centres in Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune.

Unitec Institute of Technology’s three Auckland campuses are now 100% smokefree.

Unitec Architecture students have been part of a unique project to design and build houses for Vision West, a not-for-profit low-cost housing organisation in Auckland.

New Zealand rugby legend Glen Osborne, a presenter for Maori Television’s popular sports show ‘CODE’, travelled to Unitec’s Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae on Thursday May 16, to hand over a koha (donation) to the marae on behalf of Super 15 rugby sensation and the Wallaby’s youngest player, James O’Connor.

Air, land and sea. Hobsonville Point’s heritage as a former RNZAF base and environmentally sensitive coastal area featured prominently in the proposals presented by our second year Diploma of Landscape Design students to Bruce Phythian – AVJennings’ Development Manager at the 167 hectare mixed use development.

Unitec is proud to announce our new partnership with the 1st XV Rugby Competition.

As a star of Unitec’s 2012 documentary-style ‘Change Starts Here’ advertising campaign, Bachelor of Nursing student Netane Takau became the face of every students’ struggle to succeed.

Landscape Architecture students from Unitec and Lincoln University presented their latest visions for the redevelopment of Auckland's iconic Okahu Bay to the area's custodians - Ngati Whatua.

Samantha Butler started out as another 16 year old, unwilling to face the prospect of a further two years of high-school education at an all-girls school. In just two years she has radically changed her life, thanks to Unitec’s Youth Guarantee Scheme. Today Samantha is a successful Youth Guarantee Scheme Graduate, a second-year Bachelor of Sports (Management) student at Unitec, a START mentor, and now a Unitec Ambassador.

Talented young 16 year old New Zealand film-maker Natasha Bishop, has won her first year’s study at Unitec via The Outlook for Someday film challenge and has been nominated for the prestigious Japan Wildlife Film Festival (JWFF), where it will compete with 42 other films made by the likes of the BBC, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and other international broadcasting giants.

Entering Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition, is a gruelling undertaking. And this year saw two teams from Unitec reach the National Finals and vie to represent New Zealand at the Cup’s International finale in St Petersburg. One of those teams, STAYhealth, didn’t just develop a mobile application that allowed a Windows phone to check on a patient’s heart rate – there were moments when they thought they might need it themselves.

Exactly 300 Pasifika students graduated from Unitec in April – the highest number of Pasifika graduates ever at any one Unitec graduation.

Unitec congratulates its 2,329 graduates who celebrated at our official graduation ceremonies on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.

New Zealand Ecological Society President and Senior Unitec Natural Sciences Lecturer Mel Galbraith is thrilled to be spending his Fulbright Scholarship sharing his ecological, and especially ornithological, knowledge at campuses and societies around Seattle, Washington State.

The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition and Intuition were one of two Unitec teams to make it into the country’s top 24 this year.

Catch Software, a leading provider of test management software and services, today announced an agreement with Unitec Institute of Technology, an Auckland-based tertiary provider, to bring Enterprise Tester to their computing department.

The IBM Delivery Centre at Unitec has secured a new client, and is recruiting over 50 additional Unitec students to support them.

Furniture and Cabinetmaking Certificate in Applied Technology graduates, Theo Finlayson and Jac Hebson, won the 2013 New Zealand Marine Trades Challenge earlier this year.

Unitec’s new sponsorship deal with Dempsey Wood Motor Racing is giving both Unitec students and staff a rare opportunity to experience first-hand what it’s like to be part of a racing team pit crew.

Sometimes the impossible is within your grasp. That’s how Diploma of Landscape Design students Trish Morrison and Serena Collins felt at the 2013 Ellerslie International Flower Show after winning bronze in the Student Designer of the Year category.

For a team of third year architecture students at Unitec, the practical aspects of building a house have given them an insight into the building industry in New Zealand. They’ve been part of a unique project to design and build houses for Vision West, a not-for-profit low-cost housing company in Auckland.

We are pleased to announce Unitec’s Faculty of Technology and Built Environment are teaming up with Dempsey Wood Motor Racing in a new sponsorship that is set to get hearts racing.

Reelshow International Ltd have announced the top ten film schools in the world for 2012. The survey, based on Reelshow's members and site visitors and run over the last 6 months of 2012, puts Unitec in the top ten.

Unitec has announced the launch of Bridgepoint - a range of programmes specially designed to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be.