EASTERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Te Aho a Māui | New Zealand
EIT engineering student Maia Niwa may not look like the average tradie but she does not regard gender as a barrier to her career goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. At 18 she is well on...
A growing level of research activity in the Tairāwhiti region was celebrated in EIT’s Maia Gallery at Toihoukura this week, with the first in a series of evening lectures. Kicking off...
From 9 to 13 September EIT is participating in the annual Te Wiki o te Reo Māori or Māori Language Week. There will be a lot of different and entertaining events, activities and challenges...
On Monday 12 August the graduation of the first cohort of EIT’s new youth landcare programme Ka Hao te Rangatahi was held at Te Heapera Marae, on the banks of the Tapuaeroa river. The...
People wanting to learn more about waka ama paddling have the chance to get tuition from legendary Tūranga-based coach Kiwi Campbell. Paddling will be part of a new EIT programme centred...
EIT is putting together courses for people who want to learn a bit of DIY to improve and maintain their homes. They are among the big line-up of the Adult Community Education (ACE) programme,...
The Rotary Club of Taradale selected EIT degree students Chad Tareha and Lorraine Grant as this year’s EIT Awards of Excellence winners. The scholarship recipients were announced at the...
Nothing what 69-year-old Tipene Rangihuna is doing now, was in his plan for retirement. “I was looking forward to staying at home, riding horses and relaxing,” says Tipene. When three...
The thought of traversing across the South Island on foot might not be everybody’s idea of a holiday in the wilds, but for EIT te reo Māori tutor Nadine McKinnon it was...
Numbers at EIT’s Te Whatukura School of Māori Studies in Tūranganui a Kiwa and at EIT’s Ruatoria learning centre have reached the point where the institute is having to beef up resources...