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Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 9:38 am Beekeeping, or apiculture, has become one of our fastest-growing industries as demand for New Zealand honey rises. To meet the demand for beekeeping training Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) is delivering the New Zealand Certificate in Apiculture, Level 3 from September this year. Primary Industries Curriculum Manager Pam Wood is thrilled that NMIT is able to offer a beekeeping programme in the region as it complements the viticulture and horti...

Friday, 9 July 2021, 1:46 pm Skills Active has released its 2020 annual report, detailing a year in which its industries showed their true colours, demonstrating incredible resilience and tenacity in the face of the huge challenges that Covid-19 threw at us all. “Our industries, all of which depend heavily on face-to-face contact, were some of the hardest hit by the pandemic restrictions,” says Skills Active chair Sam Napia. “However they pulled together to face a common problem, and it...

Press Release – Open Polytechnic Open Polytechnics recently released 2020 Annual Report shows the online and distance learning provider enrolled record numbers of learners, increased its overall learner satisfaction, and returned a strong financial result. Open Polytechnic, which became … Open Polytechnic’s recently released 2020 Annual Report shows the online and distance learning provider enrolled record numbers of learners, increased its overall learner satisfaction, and returned a st...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 9:10 am Open Polytechnic’s recently released 2020 Annual Report shows the online and distance learning provider enrolled record numbers of learners, increased its overall learner satisfaction, and returned a strong financial result. Open Polytechnic, which became a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga on 1 April 2020, enrolled 30,712 individual learners from January – December 2020, and returned a financial surplus of $1.9 million. The specialist online and distance learning t...

I last spoke to some of you in mid-March. That was an opportunity to reflect on an extraordinary 12 months, but also to reflect on how the future was shaping up. In what has truly become a sign of our rapidly-changing times, even eight weeks later much has changed, and we can add even more thinking and learning to how we shape the next 12 months. Today I want to touch on that thinking, but I’ll also speak to some of the wider challenges facing New Zealand in 2021, especially as we head into t...

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Brian Fallow: What about the workers, Grant? 13 May, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read New Zealand should spend more on training and employment subsidies for the private sector, says the International Monetary Fund. Photo / Supplied New Zealand should spend more on training and employment subsidies for the private sector, says the International Monetary Fund. Photo / Supplied OPINION: If ever there was a time for a Labour Finance Minister to deliver a Budget true to his partys roots, it is now. G...

I last spoke to some of you in mid-March. That was an opportunity to reflect on an extraordinary 12 months, but also to reflect on how the future was shaping up. In what has truly become a sign of our rapidly-changing times, even eight weeks later much has changed, and we can add even more thinking and learning to how we shape the next 12 months. Today I want to touch on that thinking, but I’ll also speak to some of the wider challenges facing New Zealand in 2021, especially as we head into t...

I last spoke to some of you in mid-March. That was an opportunity to reflect on an extraordinary 12 months, but also to reflect on how the future was shaping up. In what has truly become a sign of our rapidly-changing times, even eight weeks later much has changed, and we can add even more thinking and learning to how we shape the next 12 months. Today I want to touch on that thinking, but I’ll also speak to some of the wider challenges facing New Zealand in 2021, especially as we head into t...