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Representatives from NorthTec | Te Pūkenga were pleased to attend the 2022 Northland Forestry Awards this year.

We’re really excited to see the progress of our Cabins Project, in partnership with Te Kahu o Taonui – (TKoT - Northern Iwi Chairs Collective).

Hughie Blues, a NorthTec | Te Pūkenga tutor for cookery, has recently returned from Melbourne, where he was one of the judges for The Nestlé Golden Chefs Hat Awards.

Vocational learners in the mid-North will have a brand new, purpose-built base for their studies in 2023.

Studying next year? It’s time to apply for your Student Loan or Allowance. It’s best to get in early so you have it all sorted before the new year. Apply before 16th December and have the summer to relax!

Karla is in her second year of study with NorthTec | Te Pūkenga and is close to completing her Diploma in Creative Writing (Level 6).

Like many Kiwi boys, Jordan Olsen had dreams of being an All-Black. However, as he got older and “a bit distracted by life,” it was the trades, and engineering in particular, that held his interest.

NorthTec will become part of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, on 1 October 2022.

NorthTec graduate and Tutukaka-based author Lauren Roche is publishing her newest book ‘Mila and the Bone Man’, a coming-of-age story based in Waipoua that is aimed at an adult audience.

NorthTec Kaitaia held an opening ceremony for the new Clinical Nursing Skills room at their Redan Road campus on Monday 8th August.

NorthTec’s hospitality tutor Sean Lynch has teamed up with local community providers and residents to cook a store of ready-made meals by the community for the community.

Last month NorthTec held a Pre-Start Whānaungatanga Hui, welcoming first time Māori, Pacific, and Disabled learners to campus and connecting them to Te Ara Poutama (Student Support Services) team and all student services available prior to starting study.

NorthTec is inviting the Whangārei community to join the celebrations when the Classes of 2020 and 2021 are finally able to formally graduate this month.

NorthTec and Te Kotahitanga e Mahi Kaha Trust (TKEMKT) are launching a horticulture course based at Te Kona, Kaikohe, with its inaugural semester start in June 2022.

NorthTec Kerikeri is honoured to have been given the chance to partner with Northland District Health Board (NDHB) to create a tiny home for a patient in need. The build provides a valuable learning experience for NorthTec students and safe, warm housing for the patient.

Tai Tokerau tertiary education provider NorthTec are working with support from the Ministry of Health to roll out a Kaupapa Māori wellbeing programme called Kahikatea which is underpinned by the principles of Sir Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā model.

NorthTec’s horticulture and cookery pathways have teamed up with Otago Polytechnic postgraduate student Tobias Wilkinson to help bring his thesis project, Fallow Ground, to fruition. Tobias is undertaking his Master of Design Enterprise, focusing on sustainable growth and industry development.

A partnership between NorthTec and the Restaurant Association is set to increase the number of skilled staff working for the region’s hospitality businesses as the industry recovers from the impact of Covid-19.

Recent NorthTec graduate David Farrell will celebrate the long-awaited publishing of his historical fiction novel ‘The Chameleon’ on the 24th of June 2022, coinciding with Matariki Day.

Nikki Lockwood, a recent graduate of NorthTec Tai Tokerau Wānanga has just published her second book, a creative non-fiction called ‘I Heart Africa Project.’ The book challenges preconceived ideas in society and hopes to place the kiwi author on the international stage.

NorthTec will have a new look from today as it starts co-branding with Te Pūkenga – the national organisation responsible for delivering vocational education and training across Aotearoa New Zealand.

NorthTec is delighted it announce its new partnership with Northland Football Club (Northland FC). The partnership is launching for 2022 and hopes to continue in future years for a mutually beneficial relationship.

NorthTec has received two of its three new leased Battery Electric Vehicle’s (BEVs) which will join its fleet of cars as part of a replacement programme this year. Electric vehicle charging stations have also been installed at the Dyer Street and Raumanga Campuses in Whangārei.

NorthTec – Tai Tokerau Wānanga and Ngāti Rēhia took a step forward in their partnership with the signing of a new agreement last week at Te Puna o Te Mātauranga Marae, Raumanga.

As Covid continues to disrupt everyday life, Te Tai Tokerau Wānanga NorthTec has embraced digital technology and filmed an online Pōwhiri to take the place of the in-person event, which is unable to go ahead at the current Red Alert Level.

"We were really happy to be able to step up and help out with this event."

We would like to extend the invitation to view our newly launched NorthTec Careers and Employment Directory.

Whangārei local, Sam Tarrant, braves Covid-19, Alert Level Red restrictions and a hospitality slump as he prepares to open up his new Bar and Eatery ‘AstroBoy’. However, Tarrant is in a positive space as he prepares to open his new venture in Whangārei’s City Centre.

NorthTec’s Māori Enterprise papers, which launched in 2021, enter their second year on offer at the Tai Tokerau based polytechnic and are changing the way students learn with a manaakitanga approach to learning.

This summer Study Northland and NorthTec’s international department collaborated to provide eight international students with four free swimming lessons at the Whangarei Aquatic Centre with the SwimMagic Swim School.