Modified 5 September 2017
Waste Management NZ Ltd, a country-wide waste and environmental services operation, has successfully trained 100 staff members in a Skills Highway workplace literacy programme.
Modified 18 November 2019
A modern-day tohunga (expert) weaves computer science and te Reo into the classroom while a legend helps hundreds of learners transition towards a life of positive and transformational change. This is only some of the work done by 12 tertiary teachers honoured at the sixteenth Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards held at Parliament this week.
https://www.tec.govt.nz/news-and-consultations/archived-news/awards-recognise-diversity
Modified 7 August 2017
Literacy and Numeracy programme motivates employees to aspire to greater rewards in their careers, and significantly improves workplace communication and team-work.
https://www.tec.govt.nz/news-and-consultations/archived-news/life-changing-skills-wln
Modified 26 July 2017
Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy and Associate Minister Louise Upston today provided the necessary land consents to allow Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre’s acquisition of Lincoln University’s Telford Campus to proceed. TEC’s Board have also approved the transfer of funding from Telford to Taratahi.
Modified 16 February 2021
A group of Dunedin workers with learning disabilities are now being trained in literacy and numeracy with funding through our Employer-led Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Fund (EWLN).
Modified 15 May 2017
The University of Canterbury (UC) continues to make good progress on its recovery from the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. Student enrolments are rising, many of its new state-of-the-art buildings are open or nearing completion, and UC is forecasting a return to a normal operating surplus in 2019.
Modified 5 May 2017
The Māori and Pasifika Trades Training (MPTT) scheme provides scholarships to Māori and Pasifika learners to acquire the skills and attributes to gain trades-based employment, take up New Zealand apprenticeships or move to other higher-level training programmes.
Modified 21 April 2017
When 800 students graduated from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology on 6 April Julia Kennedy from our Monitoring and Crown Ownership team was invited along as a special guest by the Council’s Chair Cathy Cooney. She was swept along in the parade through Rotorua streets to the packed auditorium of the Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre where she shared in the joy and pride of families, friends and staff as they celebrated their students’ success.
Modified 21 April 2017
Over the last five years, Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has used a student-centred approach underpinned by predictive analytics to turn itself around from a low-performing university to one that is defying its poor urban demographics.
Modified 23 November 2021
Private training establishment English Language Partners isn’t just providing its learners with an education – it’s changing communities.
https://www.tec.govt.nz/news-and-consultations/archived-news/changing-lives-one-word-at-a-time
