Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 4:13 pm
Whanganui’s vibrant arts community came to life last
month with Lights on Bikes making its
return.
Celebrating the newly launched Drews Avenue
streetscape, locals flooded the event with art, lights,
music, and performances. UCOL’s Design Foundation and
Practical Lecturer, Cecelia Kumeroa, worked together with
artist Jodi Clark to create a part of the streetscape,
connecting street art to local history.
The event,
supported by the Government’s Innovating Streets fund,
aimed to boost Drews Avenue’s status as the hub of
Whanganui’s creative community.
For Kumeroa, it was
a great experience working with artist Jodi Clark and
Friday, 14 May 2021, 12:56 pm
It wasn’t your ordinary Wednesday, at least not for
UCOL lecturer Airini Beautrais. At the New Zealand Ockham
Book Awards it was announced that Beautrais has won the Jann
Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction – the country’s most
prestigious literary fiction award, coming with a $57,000
prize.
Beautrais won for her collection of short
stories ‘
Bug Week’, which judges described as
“a tightly-wound and remarkably assured
collection”.
The win has been viewed as something of
an industry upset, especially given that Beautrais was a
first time nominee, and is only the second person in 53
years to win for a collection of short stories.
Shaz Dagg has her sights set on the 2022 Coast to Coast after becoming the first female amputee to complete the race earlier this year. But this time, she wants to do every step of it solo. Dagg, a New Zealand representative para-triathlete, completed .
Friday, 16 April 2021, 8:51 am
After the success of UCOL’s Early Childhood Education
and Care (Level 4) programme, the Ministry of Education has
selected UCOL as one of their preferred education providers
to upskill Early Childhood Educators across New
Zealand.
Last year the Government announced that all
home-based early childhood educators must hold a New Zealand
Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care Level 4 as
a minimum qualification by 2025. “That means there are
currently approximately 6,500 educators working in the
home-based Early Childhood sector who will need to gain this
qualification within the next four years,” says Dr Bridget
Percy, UCOL’s Head of School for Education.
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