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From coastal rubbish collecting to rocky reef protection on the South Taranaki Bight and innovative rat trap lures – Conservation Week provided an abundance of learning experiences and hands-on… read more

Women are turning to trades, and the Taranaki Women in Trades event on May 7 is aiming to inspire even more to pick up tools, drive a digger or wield a welding machine.
Women in Trades Committee… read more

Gaming and hairstyling don’t typically go together. But Taranaki-based international hair guru Patrick Cameron has just launched his world-first app designed to teach hairdressers by video – with… read more

‘An ancient atmosphere that touches people. A huge, prehistoric, Jurassic Park. A wet and scary place. Like the Amazon on top of the Himalayas’ - some of the vivid descriptions of remote Fiordland… read more

Alex McDonald is turning microgreens into a lucrative organic business. Shari Corbett-Dwyer has launched an innovative community garden support network to encourage more food growing and sharing at a… read more

WITT will become a ‘stand-alone’ polytechnic from the start of 2027, the government announced this week.
Operations Lead Executive Nicola Conley says the announcement is “a significant milestone, and… read more

Scholarships offered by WITT to support those wanting to study organic produce growing are now open for the third year. The opportunity coincides with heightened concern over food security amid… read more

Lisa Carruthers gained her international beauty therapy qualification at WITT 24 years ago. Now she’s a proud tutor with 100% pass rate for her latest cohort of 12 students who all gained the same… read more

People’s brains are wired differently and in an educational setting this can present challenges for some learners. WITT’s student success team says vocational education is at the frontline when it… read more

Hundreds of students poured onto the WITT campus on a fine summer morning for the first day of Semester One on Monday (February 23) to attend pōwhiri as part of a formal welcome.
Domestic enrolment… read more