Rachael Kelly16:17, May 06 2021
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Displaced workers who have lost their jobs during Covid-19 are being offered free study to retrain for jobs in the agriculture industry.
Agriculture students at the Southern Institute of Technology will be able to get into work faster thanks to a new training option. SIT is joining Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Primary ITO on a training initiative that allows students to share their time between tertiary education providers, shifting their training focus depending on work opportunities. The collaboration builds on a pilot West Coast programme that started earlier this year, Tai Poutini Polytechnic Board chair Rebecca Keoghan said.
Press Release – Tai Poutini Polytechnic Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is joining Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Primary ITO on a training initiative that aims to get agriculture learners in jobs more quickly by giving offering training options. The collaboration builds on a pilot West Coast …
Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is joining Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Primary ITO on a training initiative that aims to get agriculture learners in jobs more quickly by giving offering training options.
The collaboration builds on a pilot West Coast programme which started earlier this year. It allows students to share their time between tertiary education providers, shifting their training focus depending on work opportunities.
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 5:34 pm
Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is joining Tai
Poutini Polytechnic and Primary ITO on a training initiative
that aims to get agriculture learners in jobs more quickly
by giving offering training options.
The collaboration
builds on a pilot West Coast programme which started earlier
this year. It allows students to share their time between
tertiary education providers, shifting their training focus
depending on work opportunities.
The initiative is a
great fit for the new Te Pūkenga model, putting learners at
the centre and seeing training providers work together to
explore new ways to benefit employers and the
Treasury claims Rio Tinto faces 'investor backlash' amid frustration over Tiwai Point negotiations
22 Apr, 2021 08:46 PM
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The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in Southland. Photo / Mike Scott Treasury says Rio Tinto risks an investor backlash over its handling of its environmental obligations at Tiwai Point, likening the situation to the destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia that forced the chief executive of the global mining giant to quit.
Documents released under the Official Information Act reveal the frustrations of both Treasury and the Government as they tried in vain to pin down the owners of New Zealand's aluminium smelter to environmental obligations at Tiwai Point, which has operated as a smelter since 1970.
The increased funding would go towards a redesigned roof, and fire ratings, he said. The balance of $200,000 had been allocated from funding for stage two of the project, which is the proposed Maruawai Centre. At a meeting last week, the council voted to include $340,000 of funding for stage two of the development in the council’s Long Term Plan. It will be out for consultation in March. Regional Economic Development minister Shane Jones announced funding for the project during a visit to Gore in 2019. The development of the Maruawai Centre in the former Smiths’ City and Salvation Army building is the culmination of a 12 year research partnership between the Gore District Historical Society, Hokonui Runanga and the Council’s arts and heritage team.