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If you are of Māori and/or Pasifika descent, aged 16 – 40, and want to learn a trade or study the New Zealand Certificate in Health & Wellbeing, you could study free at Unitec.

Twenty-two-year-old Brandon D’Souza has recently completed a New Zealand Diploma in Sport, Recreation and Exercise (Community Sport and Recreation) at Unitec.

In 1998, Shelley Wharton (nee Renkema) decided to make a career change and signed up for Unitec’s Environmental Engineering degree. Now Infrastructure Programmes Department Manager at Whangārei District Council and a member of the Water NZ Board, we spoke to her about her career journey and the challenges she’s faced as a woman in engineering.

We have a number of support services available to help our Māori students.

We can help you prepare to become an apprentice electrician or electronics technician.

The Kate Edger Foundation has various Scholarships worth $2,000 for undergraduate students. The Tressa Thomas Retraining Awards help to encourage mature women aged 25 years and above to study and return to a profession or take up work (Paid or unpaid) in the community. 
The  Tressa Thomas Retraining awards can help pay for course fees, childcare, transport – whatever you need to make studies possible.

Unitec | Te Pūkenga construction ākonga stepped up to help the Riding for the Disabled West Auckland branch recently by building a new animal shelter after the previous one was swept away in Cyclone Gabrielle.

Over three decades ago, John Pepere completed his plumbing apprenticeship at Unitec. After 20 years working overseas, he came back to where it all started – to share his knowledge with the next generation.

Twenty-nine-year-old shooting Para sport athlete and celebrated medalist Neelam ONeill came up for air at the end of the first lockdown in 2020, and decided she wanted to do something different with her life.