Students baking raises $600 for Women s Refuge Whanganui
4 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Hospitality student Shontelle Nepe (left) presents the donation to Women s Refuge Whanganui manager Yvonne Denny (centre) with Training For You tutor Bex Carr.
Photo / Karen Hughes, Training For You
Hospitality student Shontelle Nepe (left) presents the donation to Women s Refuge Whanganui manager Yvonne Denny (centre) with Training For You tutor Bex Carr.
Photo / Karen Hughes, Training For You
Whanganui Chronicle
Hospitality students at Training For You have raised more than $600 for Women s Refuge Whanganui.
The students have been running their on-campus training cafe in Ingestre St for a five-week season. The Little Campus Cafe has been open to the public during weekdays, and students have been practising their barista skills and customer service techniques in a real-life cafe environment.
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Baker, who is from Gloucestershire in England, came to New Zealand in 2015. After she and Huffam got together, they settled in Hāwera, his home town. “I’ve always been into sport and fitness, and I always wanted to do something sporty, but I got the travel bug,” she said. They both enrolled for the New Zealand Certificate in Exercise (Level 4) at WITT, and started the course last July. “We studied here in Hāwera which was good for us with the kids at school and kindy,” she said. Now they have started Infinity Fitness in a new partnership with their former tutor, Josh Paurini.
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WITT student Sacha Mills decided to study social work after struggling with her own mental health issues and finding there wasn t enough resources to get help.
Taranaki mental health student Sacha Mills wants to be the change in her community. And she s far from alone. Student numbers in the social work certificate Mills is completing at Taranaki’s Witt polytech have doubled this year to 105. It is one of a number of qualifications at the institute recording record numbers. The popularity of the social work course is being attributed to a surge in interest in mental health following Covid-19 restrictions, that it’s fee free and also that a lack of entry requirements makes it accessible to many.
UCOL Whanganui wins contract to teach home-based early childhood educators
19 Apr, 2021 02:00 AM
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UCOL Early Childhood Education and Care lecturer Billie Comiskey (centre) works with students test driving a new playdough recipe.
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UCOL Early Childhood Education and Care lecturer Billie Comiskey (centre) works with students test driving a new playdough recipe.
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Whanganui Chronicle
UCOL Whanganui will be one of the providers delivering early childhood education to home-based teachers in response to new Government requirements.
Last year the Government announced that all home-based early childhood educators must hold a New Zealand Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECE) level 4 as a minimum qualification by 2025.