When David Brook moved to Auckland Institute of Technology to become the Deputy Director, the Council appoints Rosemary Middleton as the CEO-the first woman to hold this position in the polytechnic sector. She comes with a background in the Education and Trade and Industry Departments. Under her...
David Brook and the Council make a case to the Department of Education to purchase the well loved house at 292 Palmerston Road which will act as a community house where a wide range of part-time courses on personal development, skill based training in parenting and communication skills, as well...
Gary Quinn joins the Tairāwhiti Community College as a horticulture tutor in September 1982. A 4.5 hectares site in Upper Stout Street becomes available and Tairāwhiti Community College takes over this site. HOD, Ken Wong, David Brook and Gary plan and design what buildings are needed. Over...
The new Council at its inaugural meeting opted for the name Tairāwhiti to precede Community College to ensure a regional emphasis with the focus of providing continuing education for the people of Gisborne-East Coast and Wairoa.
Half year 20 week courses are offered in office and related...
Under an agreement with the University of Waikato a two year part time certificate in the general areas of Community Social Work is offered as well as a three year part-time Certificate in Māori Studies.
Through REAP, courses are taught in Hicks Bay/ Te Araroa, Ruatoria, Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga...
An extensive 3 stage building programme begins. David Brook makes a case for a bigger, separate library, a specialist arts and craft room and typing rooms wired for electric typewriters.
Trade Certificate and Advanced Trade Certificate courses are offered to apprentices as well as full time...
The current tertiary staff move into the new Senior Technical Division along with an extensive list of part-time specialist tutors and 1.5 administrators.
Joyce Gedye, Phil Gaukrodger and Ken Wong are appointed course supervisors and with the provision of torches and a warning to look out for pot...
The Ministry of Works building proposal for the new Senior Technical Division to be erected on the Central School site is approved by the Gisborne City Council.
David Brook is appointed head of the division which is accommodated in a range of old buildings including Central School on a site in...
As Chair of the Gisborne /Hawke’s Bay Education Centre and Gisborne High Schools Board of Governors since 1965, Brian Bull champions the case for a community college on the Central School site.
The tertiary unit of Gisborne Boys’ High is given the new legal status of Senior Technical Division...
Ms Dorothy Stafford, Head of Department General Studies, Waikato Technical Institute is engaged by the Gisborne High Schools Board of Governors, to carry out a survey of the district’s tertiary education needs. Financial support comes from the J.N. Williams Trust. The survey recommends a...
Phil Gaukrodger and Don Stewart are appointed by Hawke’s Bay Community College to teach carpentry apprentices in May 1975. Phil teaches from 1975-2010. His apprentices learn their skills in a newly constructed ‘Barn’ next to the 1904 wooden building when the staff and pupils of Central...
By the mid 1970s around 1000 adult students are enrolled in the fulltime secretarial course, Day Release Apprentice classes and evening classes at the tertiary division at Boys’ High School, increasing the pressure to establish a separate institution and expand the limited range of...
The Gisborne High Schools’ Board of Governors establishes the first fulltime secretarial course and with Mel Simpson’s guidance appoints Trudy Meredith (Keelan) as the course supervisor in October 1971. She teaches in the upstairs room of the old wooden building connected to Central School...
