From the science of coffee roasting and the creativity of latte art to learning about digital apps for managing a café – Sophie Banks feels ready for the hospitality sector. She’s just completed and is top of her class for the New Zealand… read more

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Laura De Lange wants to help people stay active so they can remain in their homes and keep the sparkle in their eyes alive. Kyan Jones gets a buzz caring for elderly people in retirement homes who remember his smiling face despite their… read more

If AI is putting a dampener on your career dreams, there’s an antidote. Taranaki Careers Expo will be back in full force this year with loads of exhibitors showcasing jobs and training that require human heads, hands and hearts. State-of-the-art… read more

An Australian expert visited Taranaki recently to run a weekend workshop at WITT to teach builders about using hempcrete in construction, signalling a growing local interest in the fibrous plant for housing. Australian Hemp Masonry Company’s… read more

Taranaki’s conservation knowledge is helping to improve environmental management and protect kiwi down the line in a new partnership between WITT and Porirua City Council (PCC). Porirua City Council staff members Brooke Allen-Collins and Bianca… read more

A growing awareness of the impact of trauma has led to an additional intake this year for a unique, Taranaki-based Trauma Informed Practice micro credential at WITT. Tara Malone and Helen Bingham, researchers and nursing tutors at the Western… read more

Ihaka Timu-Keefe has always dreamed of being a builder. This year he’s gone from building bird houses at home to building a house for people. By the end of August, he and his classmates had nearly finished building a three-bedroomed weatherboard… read more

Moving to New Plymouth from his home in Punjab – a northern Indian state one fifth the size of New Zealand with 30+ million people – was a giant leap into the unknown for WITT graduate Suhail Walia. But he adapted quickly, thrived, and gained a… read more

Wild cats cause immeasurable damage to our native environments. Recent findings by WITT conservation students at a local reserve have alarm bells ringing. Rātāpihipihi Scenic Reserve is a small remnant subtropical forest with a variety of native… read more