Learning is a never ending journey
May 3, 2020
Parekura Rohe-Belmont has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours (Māori). She was also selected as valedictorian for one of this year’s ceremonies. So, as the ceremonies were...
Kaupapa key for new ICT team
March 10, 2020
A new start-up software development company aims to be the No.1 Māori information and communications technology (ICT) provider for Tairāwhiti. The five-member team behind the business want to...
Cultural exchange to Hawaii for te reo māori students
February 17, 2020
A Tairāwhiti Te Reo Maori learning umbrella is behind many firsts. Later this year 24 EIT Tairāwhiti Te Whatukura tauira (students) and kaiako (teachers) will set off on a cultural exchange...
EIT’s Te Ara o Tāwhaki completed
February 13, 2020
After 2.5 years of designing, painting and carving, the new pou, kōwhaiwhai and tukutuku for EIT’s wharenui, Te Ara o Tāwhaki, were officially revealed and blessed on 12 February. Over 160...
New arts student feeling at home away from home
January 20, 2020
Northland student Hinemoana Tautari hasn’t had a chance to get homesick since enrolling for the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts at EIT’s Toihoukura this year. She has made some great new...
Dr Joe Te Rito appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor
December 11, 2019
EIT is pleased to announce that Dr Joe Te Rito has been appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor for a period of three years. Dr Te Rito is currently a Deputy Director for Ako Aotearoa...
Gender no barrier for engineering student
October 22, 2019
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...
Home-grown research celebrated at new EIT lecture series
October 10, 2019
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...
EIT is celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week)
September 9, 2019
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...
EIT’s Ka Hao te Rangatahi celebrates its first graduation
August 23, 2019
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...