News - June 2014

Film Studies Programme Attracts Student from China
June 16, 2014

Having left his homeland of China for the first time this year, Jiangyan Chen is happily settled in Hawke’s Bay and loving his filmmaking studies at EIT. The first-year screen production...

Emerging Artists Exhibit At Art-X
June 16, 2014

An “emerging artist”, EIT degree student, Jeff Robertson depicts a walking figure dwarfed by an expansive space in a painting showcased at the national Art-X exhibition in Napier. Born...

A push for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training
June 11, 2014

EIT is part of two collaborations that have  been successful in securing Government funding to support further trades training for Māori and Pasifika students. The Māori and Pasifika...

Automotive Careers has Girl Appeal
June 11, 2014

Getting ahead in the male dominated automotive industry is more about drive than gender, according to three young women studying at EIT. Some months into year one of the National...

Chef relishes new career
June 11, 2014

A summer working at Terroir, one of the world’s most highly ranked  vineyard restaurants, was a great stepping stone to a career in hospitality, says recently graduated chef Grant...

New Appointment for EIT
June 11, 2014

Tuhakia Keepa, EIT’s newly-appointed Director Māori, Poutāhu, has returned to his türangawaewae Te Aitanga a Māhaki in moving back to Hawke’s Bay. Of Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Ngāti...

Picking up the Dropped Stitch
June 11, 2014

Annaliese Bond’s stepping stone  to a career path was studying for  EIT’s Certificate in Science. “If I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have  had the confidence to go on to study...

Marae Cookery Programme Piloted in Hawke’s Bay
June 10, 2014

In a first for Hawke’s Bay, EIT is to offer a marae cookery programme as a national qualification.EIT will be supported by kuia, kaumātua and kaitakatū in offering the Level 3 National...

EIT Partners With Cook Islands Educator
June 4, 2014

EIT has teamed up with the Cook Islands Tertiary Training Institute to deliver several trades courses in Rarotonga. In the past, CITTI has worked with a number of New Zealand tertiary educators...

Taradale Rotary Awards Excellence Scholarships
June 4, 2014

Last week the Taradale Rotary Club held their Annual EIT Awards of Excellence. Two of our students were awarded scholarships Naydia Heays is in her final year of the Bachelor of Nursing....