News - Agriculture and Horticulture

EIT Celebrating Māori Language Week 2015
July 22, 2015

EIT is to be a showcase for the Māori language next week, with daily activities celebrating and promoting te reo.EIT’s Māori and Pasifika liaison advisor Lee Kershaw-Karaitiana says the school...

Orcharding A Sweet Career
December 2, 2014

Managing a large apple orchard and studying horticulture is half a world away from Steven Hartley’s previous career path but, coming from the investment banking world, he can’t think of a...

Horticulture Studies First Rung On Career Ladder
August 5, 2014

Hawke’s Bay vineyards manager Adam Evans is living and working the dream. Having climbed quite a number of rungs up the corporate ladder, Adam is now responsible for managing...

Cheers for Cheer
February 11, 2014

After 10 years in London, Mathew Cheer returned to New Zealand to find rural industries had changed and progressed. Recognising the need to upskill, Matt enrolled at EIT and is now into his...

Job success for horticulture students
February 1, 2014

There are plenty of winners in a new partnership between EIT and the horticulture industry. Level three Sustainable Fruit Production students from Hawke’s Bay are being snapped up after a...

Trades academy success
January 25, 2014

The success of the High School Trades Academy Programme @ EIT is being felt in the far reaches of Tairāwhiti. Each Friday, 135 students from every high school in the region head to the EIT...

More fee free study places
January 23, 2014

EIT youth scholarships, partially funded by the government’s Youth Guarantee (YG) scholarship scheme, has  now been extended to 18 and 19 year olds who wish to study up to Level 3. In...

Studying Animal Care A Pathway To New Career
July 16, 2013

After qualifying and working as a landscaper for five years, SPCA inspector Simon Kale decided he would rather work with animals than plants and trees. “I was looking for a change and saw...

Maori Name For EIT
July 1, 2013

Te Aho a Māui is to sit alongside EIT- Eastern Institute of Technology as the formal Māori name for the East Coast’s leading tertiary education institution.  Fittingly, says EIT chief...

Big community effort from Wairoa students
June 24, 2013

EIT Tairāwhiti’s Wairoa horticulture students have been digging deep to help the community. The eight-strong level three crew dug and prepared 1200 holes for a community-driven plant up,...