Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 4:03 pm
Colombian students at Southern Institute of Technology
(SIT) are counting down the days to celebrate and show their
patriotism on Colombian Independence Day, July 20th, because
this year they are having their first ever ceremony at the
Invercargill campus.
SIT staff member Adriana Rincón,
who is originally from Colombia, says there is a great deal
of excitement building for the day. It will be observed with
a flag-raising ceremony, the playing of the Colombian
national anthem - ¡Oh Gloria Inmarcesible! (Oh Unfading
Glory!), followed by a morning tea with traditional
Colombian food, from 8.30 - 9.00am on Tuesday 20th
Monday, 19 July 2021, 10:03 am
Te Pūkenga leaders visited Southern Institute of
Technology in Invercargill on Friday talking with people
from the network and learners about the future of vocational
learning and the work underway to build it.
Te
Pūkenga is a new national entity established by the
government to unite polytechnics and industry training
organisations around the country into a national network.
Learning will be easily accessible no matter where learners
are, while meeting the needs of employers.
“We have
a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a vocational
learning system that is simple to navigate, responds to the
needs of a diverse range of learners and employers and is
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She often visited the Southland with her staff to bring employment-related roadshows that enabled Southlanders to keep up with the rapidly changing employment law landscape. Nicholls has been a strong advocate on issues Southlanders face, including lobbying for the continued operation of the New Zealand Aluminium Smelter at Tiwai Point after Rio Tinto announced in early 2020 its intentions of winding down operations by August 2021. She argued that it ought to remain open long enough to give the region time to develop alternative employment options in other industries. “The reality is there was no other viable demand for the electricity the smelter consumes, as there was insufficient infrastructure in place to transport the power further afield. Any such infrastructure will take five-to-eight years to complete.”
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Staff of Southland disAbility Enterprises at a learning course in Invercargill, standing from left, general manager Hamish McMurdo, Kirsty Muir, Greg Duncan, tutor Andrea Walton and Suzy Tresidder; seated, Blair Henderson, left, and Paul Burtenshaw.
Southland disAbility Enterprises is giving its workers extra help with life skills through courses from the Southern Institute of Technology. The courses - skills for living and skills for work – are held in SDE’s boardroom three days a week under the guidance of SDE tutor Andrea Walton. She wrote the courses when she worked at SIT. SDE is a recycling business.