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Source: NorthTec – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Tai Tokerau Climate Change Conference
NorthTec and co-conveners, the Northland Regional Council, Northland District Health Board and Amokura Iwi Consortium, are hosting a Climate Change conference on 8 and 9 June. The Minister for Climate Change, the Honourable James Shaw, will open the conference following a pōwhiri.
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Headline: NCEA art exhibited at NorthTec
The touring Top Art exhibition, featuring some of the best high school artworks in the country, will be coming to NorthTec’s Geoff Wilson Gallery for the school holidays.
The exhibition features a selection of NCEA Level 3 visual arts portfolios that achieved Excellence last year.
The annual display, which travels around New Zealand, provides inspiration to secondary school arts students covering the five available streams of study – design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Top Art creates an opportunity for students and their teachers to understand the standard of work required to achieve a mark of Excellence, by viewing the top portfolios from 2017.
It is also a chance for members of the public to view the high quality of art created in secondary schools.
The works will be on display in the Geoff Wilson Gallery from Wednesday, 18 April to Friday, 27 April.
The gallery is open for public viewing on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 10am and 4pm. Anyone interested in attending the exhibition outside the normal opening hours can contact the gallery via gallery@northtec.ac.nz.
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Source: NorthTec – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Nursing evening can answer your questions
Anyone interested in studying nursing at NorthTec can come along to special information evenings to find out more.
Information sessions about the Bachelor of Nursing will be held at both the Raumanga and Kaitaia campuses, on Thursday, 10 May.
The Raumanga event takes place in the Interactive Learning Centre lecture theatre (Room D350), and runs from 5pm to 7pm. This is located near Gate 1 in Raumanga Valley Road.
The Kaitaia session will be held in Room 1 of the campus in Oxford Street, and runs from 4pm to 6pm.
All are welcome to find out about this popular, three-year degree programme, and attendees will have the chance to ask any questions they may have. The NorthTec programme combines online delivery with classroom teaching, with clinical placements in a variety of healthcare settings.
Both information sessions will feature a presentation on the degree programme from senior nursing staff, followed by an open session for questions. Nurse lecturers will give an overview of the programme, as well as explaining the entry criteria and application process. They will also give options of other programmes available to people if they do not meet the entry criteria for nursing.
A member of NorthTec’s enrolments team will also be present, to supply enrolment packs and answer any questions around the process.
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Headline: Māori arts students win sculpture awards
A pair of NorthTec Maunga Kura Toi – Bachelor of Māori Arts – students won two out of three awards at last week’s Whangarei Sculpture Symposium.
Graham Nathan and Anthony Dunn, who are both in the final year of the degree programme, won the $4,000 Te Aue Marie Award, and the $1,000 People’s Choice Award for their work, after competing against established artists from throughout New Zealand.
Both students are studying the whakairo (carving) strand of the degree programme, and were taught by the noted carver and NorthTec tutor, Te Kuiti Stewart, who sadly passed away last month. Their work in Oamaru limestone was their first attempt at working with stone, rather than wood.
The sculptures were on show at the symposium, held at the Hihiaua Peninsular, for 10 days until last week’s judging and public auction.
Organised by Creative Northland, the theme of this year’s symposium was to create a form that represents “Journey” and interprets a local influence. The theme was inspired by the 250th anniversary of the voyage of the Endeavour, captained by Lieutenant James Cook, commemorating his exploration of the New Zealand coast.
Entitled He Tangata, He Tangata, He Tangata, the NorthTec students’ triptych represented three figures: Cook; Tupaea, a Tahitian navigator who travelled with him and later acted as a translator; and local Māori.
The work, consisting of three one-metre high limestone sculptures each sitting on a base of totara wood, will be installed at Kerikeri Airport in 2019 as part of the 250th anniversary events, with the artists set to attend the unveiling ceremony.
Graham and Anthony were among 20 artists who submitted work to the event. They now plan to gift part of their prize back to the NorthTec Maunga Kura Toi programme, so that another student can enter the next Whangarei Sculpture Symposium in two years’ time. The gift will be named in honour of Te Kuiti Stewart.
Graham said: “The work represents three people that came together at the point of the first engagement with Bay of Islands Māori. The “Journey” theme for us was about people, cultures and whakapapa. The idea is that we are all cut from the same stone. We all aspire to the same things for ourselves, our children, our children’s children and our planet.”
He said the other artists had been very happy to see the students do so well, and the exposure they had gained through the symposium was “phenomenal.” He added: “I’m so happy that we proved ourselves in that forum amongst those artists.”
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Headline: NorthTec graduates celebrate their special day
Nearly 250 NorthTec graduates celebrated their special day with stirring ceremonies and a joyful march through the centre of Whangarei.
Forum North was packed with the class of 2017, their families and supporters, and NorthTec staff at the two ceremonies held on Friday (9 March). All those graduating successfully completed diplomas, degrees and graduate diplomas.
At the morning ceremony, students from Business and Management, Information Systems, Software Development, Applied Social Services, Cookery, Architectural Technology and Civil Engineering crossed the stage to receive their certificates and be capped by NorthTec Council Chair, Wayne Jackson.
The afternoon ceremony was for students of Applied Arts, Applied Writing, Sport and Recreation, Conservation and Environmental Management, Science, Māori Arts and Nursing.
In between the two ceremonies, the jubilant graduates set off from the Rose Gardens and enjoyed their march through town, cheered on by supporters and members of the public.
Wayne Jackson said it was wonderful to see so many whānau and friends supporting the graduates on their special day, and thanked them for all the help they had given.
Student valedictorian, Heleina Garisau, congratulated her fellow graduates for all their efforts and their success. She told them: “Our studies are complete and here we are on this auspicious day to celebrate one with another. I applaud you! It has not been an easy task.”
Heleina, a Bachelor of Māori Arts (Maunga Kura Toi), said: “As the graduating class we come from various backgrounds and we each have a unique back story. We are a diverse group of individuals with at least one thing in common… We all chose to attain our qualifications through NorthTec. Fellow students, I acknowledge each of you. We have all faced a variety of challenges to get where we are today.”
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