At the age of 13, Cabe Ihaia-Dean tried boxing and now he hasn’t looked back.While attending Marfell Primary School in New Plymouth, a local police officer offered him and a group of others an opportunity to try the sport. “Throughout those years I… read more

Story written by WITT and Taranaki Chamber of Commerce.  The WITT Top Shop competition is back and nominations for the awards opened last week. The Top Shop awards run by the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce celebrate Taranaki’s Premier Customer… read more

On Saturday 9 April, campus life was busier than usual, with WITT hosting the New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) Apprenticeship Challenge for the Taranaki region.Michael Craig, a graduate of the New Zealand Certificate in Construction (Carpentry… read more

After growing up on a sheep and beef farm east of Stratford Hannah Slater, WITT’s new agriculture tutor found her passion and set her sites on becoming a shepherd.After taking every agriculture course possible in high school Hannah attended Lincoln… read more

Last week the ākonga from the New Zealand Certificate in Skills for Living (Level 1) programme lent a helping hand to the New Plymouth RSA and placed a poppy on the graves of all the soldiers to commemorate ANZAC day.Helen Holswich Vice President of… read more

Ingrid van Amsterdam graduated from WITT in 2015 with the New Zealand Diploma in Creative Technologies and is now the proud founder of the locally produced magazine, BiograView.The BiograView magazine began online in 2019 and is New Zealand’s first… read more

Pictured: WITT Board Member Charlotte LIttle and Taranaki Rainbow Youth Coordinator Wesley  Local community, rainbow allies and a large number of WITT staff came along to celebrate the opening and blessing of the new Rainbow Room at WITT on… read more

Story by Stuff Reporter: Elijah Hill Taranaki’s largest tertiary education provider is set to become a testing bed for the energy-saving technology of the future. One of the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (Witt) buildings at its New… read more

WITT has begun rolling out new branding that sees the WITT and Te Pūkenga logos sit side by side, visually signalling the start of the transition to one national tertiary entity.Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology – is the… read more

The 2022 Student Leaders are officially underway for the year. Meeting for the first time in the new student voice space ‘Te Paepae Ākonga’ situated in the heart of student life on campus in Te Kauta Café.Te Paepae Ākonga is being transformed into a… read more