In our first monograph for 2016, Unitec’s Head of Undergraduate in Te Miro Transdiciplinary Network, Lisa Maurice-Takerei, presents a whakapapa of technical, trade and vocational education. In doing so she explores the origins of a hybrid Vocational Education Training (VET) system in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Click here to view the monograph
A bi-annual ejournal for practitioners and academics who love community development, Whanake presents the full first issue of 2016. The journal provides space for posing questions, documenting emerging trends in research and practice, and sharing case studies and biographies. Click here to read Whanake Volume 2 Edition 1 2016 Date of Publication: 30.06.16 ISSN: 2423-009X
More Than a War: Remembering 1914-1918 presents a creative juxtaposition of digital platforms—a combination of audio, video, archival images, soundscapes, and social media, among others—to tell the stories from 1914–1918 a century later. Led by Sara Donaghey, Sue Berman and Nina Seja, the transmedia project brings together staff and students from Unitec Institute of Technology’s Department of Communication Studies […]
The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) is an invasive species first identified in New Zealand in 1990. It is an aggressive tramp species that can form very large ‘super colonies’ extending over vast areas and has been reported to rob honey and predate honey bees in hives. This pilot study sought to establish, from a circulated […]
Author Zhivan Alach uses a narrative case study to examine the design and development of a performance measurement framework within a local government department. Read the paper https://doi.org/10.34074/ocds.058 Author(s): Zhivan Alach, PhD Date of Publication: 10.05.16 ISSN: 2324-3635
Authors Xiangrong Hao and Elizabeth Rainsbury examine the internal control disclosures mandated for Chinese cross-listed companies in 2011. These were the first Chinese companies required to comply with the Basic Standards of Enterprise Internal Control. Click here to read the report Click here to read more work by Xiangrong Hao and Elizabeth Rainsbury https://doi.org/10.34074/rsrp.051
Author John Blakeley provides a brief history of engineering qualifications in New Zealand, starting in 1840 through to the present day. Read the paper https://doi.org/10.34074/ocds.027
The construction and demolition (C&D) industry is one of the largest waste producing industries in New Zealand. C&D waste may represent up to 50% of all waste generated, 20% of all waste going to landfill and the remaining 80% going to cleanfill. In an attempt to highlight these issues and encourage a culture of waste […]
The New Zealand public, its industries and the conservation sector, are greatly concerned about the state of national biosecurity protection, awareness, and system performance – and rightly so. Scarcely a day goes by without a new story in the media about a biosecurity breach, a pest, a threat, or a related impact on the economy, […]
A bi-annual ejournal for practitioners and academics who love community development, Whanake presents the second issue of 2015. The journal provides space for posing questions, documenting emerging trends in research and practice, and sharing case studies and biographies. Click here to visit the journal website and read Volume 1, Issue 2 Click here to read […]