Friends Eliot (left) and Aliya (right) have stepped through their agriculture studies side-by-side since they were year 11 students attending Trades Academy one day a week alongside their secondary school studies. “We were complete strangers from… read more

New kaitakawaenga Shelton Healey (second from left) may come from a whānau of educators, but his pathway into education has been an interesting journey featuring a representative sporting career and work as a musician before he found his way to… read more

Bachelor of Engineering Technology ākonga Mikayla Mathys (Taranaki) remembers only too well what it is like to make decisions about what to study and where to study. As she finished off her final year at New Plymouth Girls High School, she was set… read more

The opening of the revamped trades training kaimahi and ākonga lunchroom and gathering space caps off 18 months of investment in infrastructure for trades ākonga. A tired tearoom and former trailer shed on WITT’s lower campus have been transformed… read more

The first group of WITT Te Pūkenga New Zealand Certificate in Light Automotive Engineering (level 4) ākonga have graduated with most going into apprenticeships or work in the industry. The level 4 programme was introduced directly in response to… read more

Futurists say people are likely to change careers numerous times across their lifetimes but the reality of pausing one career to retrain for the next when you have a family to support feels like a bit of a gamble. It was a gamble that’s paid off for… read more

You don’t need to leave the region to become a barber any longer thanks to a new pathway into the industry that starts at WITT Te Pūkenga. Secondary students can now get a taste of what it takes to be a barber with the new barbering option that… read more

An unlikely friendship has formed between 26-year old international ākonga Geep Thuakkong and her classmate Marita Green, a local potter who is returning to the classroom to upskill many years and a few careers after completing her first… read more

Horticulture ākonga Siobhan Hemingway has been awarded $2,000 towards fees for the new WITT Te Pūkenga Organic Primary Production Certificate (Level 4) programme starting this trimester thanks to the Ostler’s Garden Horticulture Scholarship (OGHS… read more

“Engineering isn’t about maths and science, it’s about people, everything we do is with people at the centre of it – from trying to make people’s lives better to solving problems they face,” says Tim Anderson who joined WITT Te Pūkenga at the… read more