News - August 2016

Student Movie a New Take on Napier Siege
August 26, 2016

Locked down during the Napier siege, EIT screen production student Brock Reynolds is drawing on his experience of the tragic event to make a short film as his final-year diploma...

More Family, Less Debt and Great Qualifications
August 15, 2016

For sisters Mel and Kalisi Ma’afu, study at EIT is opening doors without the burden of student debt, or isolation from family.The eldest of four sisters, Mel (28) promotes the region to the...

EIT Team Helps With Vanuatu’s Recovery
August 15, 2016

An EIT team recently returned from a second stint helping Vanuata rebuild after Cyclone Pam hammered the island nation early last year.  The group of seven – comprising EIT staffers, former...

Samoan Student Cooks Up A Great Career
August 15, 2016

Seese Asalele’s home-made curries have inspired her son Anesi to study cookery at EIT. From Samoa, the pair moved to Napier shortly before Anesi entered his teens.  After completing his seventh...

Teacher Graduate Esteems Rarotongan Roots
August 15, 2016

Aspen Edwards at Hastings Lollipops Educare with from left, Maggie Berriman, Korus King (at back), Jahleenah Tuaine and Georgia Kavana-McGhie. EIT graduate Aspen Edwards very much identifies with...

New Kid Enrols For Semester Two
August 3, 2016

Pickles may be tiny but she’s proving big on star appeal with EIT students and staff.   Owned by Work and Life Skills tutor Katy Kenah, the kid goat is sharing a classroom with 23 students who...