Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 9:48 am | Open Polytechnic Whitireia And WelTec Open Polytechnic together with Whitireia and WelTec will be hosting the national
2021 ITP (Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics) Research Symposium, which will
be held on 25-26 November at Whitireia, Porirua. The theme for this year’s conference . More
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 9:48 am
Open Polytechnic together with Whitireia and WelTec will
be hosting the national 2021 ITP (Institutes of Technology
and Polytechnics) Research Symposium, which will be held on
25-26 November at Whitireia, Porirua.
The theme for
this year’s conference is ‘Resilience’ and the call
for abstracts is now open with submissions being accepted up
until 15 August.
Keynote speakers confirmed for the
event include award-winning journalist Jehan Casinader and
Dr Mereana Selby, Chief Executive of Te Wānanga o
Raukawa.
Dr Nadia Sal, Open Polytechnic’s Research
Development Leader, is one of the symposium convenors and
says one of the aims of the symposium is to foster research
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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