Ashton Northcott is in her final-year of the Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design. A recent exhibition of Ashton’s work staged at the Hastings Community Arts Centre celebrated her take on gender, expressing the notion of female control and attempting to restore female loss of imagination. The exhibition, entitled Ashton’s Army, was staged for the 21-year-old as the 2009 winner of the ...Read more
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EIT Student recently exhibiting at Community Arts Centre
New Zealand’s first renal Nurse Practitioner.
EIT graduate of the Master of Nursing, Rachael Walker, is New Zealand’s first renal Nurse Practitioner. It’s a significant achievement in our region because there is a high prevalence of diabetes. And this disorder leads to nearly half the cases of kidney failure in New Zealand. At 32, Rachael is also the youngest to have gained Nurse Practitioner status since the Nursing Council of New ...Read more
Making the Most of Telephone Interviews
Here’s an article from our latest newsletter with particularly high value to Hawke’s Bay businesses who frequently find themselves receiving applications from candidates outside of the region, and often offshore. With current times bringing in high numbers of applicants from far and wide for most jobs, and most recruiting managers facing considerable pressure to manage time and ...Read more
How To Ace Job Interviews
Copy of the article that appreared in Hawke’s Bay Today, Saturday 7th August edition. Interview conducted with Ian Beattie of RIOT Recruitment, Hawke’s Bay’s recruitment specialists. With all the advice and learning materials out there, you would think we would all be experts at the interviewing process. But recruiters still note that candidates are missing out on potential job ...Read more
EIT are throwing open their doors this Sunday
We are throwing open our doors this Sunday for an activity-packed Open Day. Visitors to the Taradale campus will be able to see demonstrations and displays, tour the facilities and chat to lecturers and students about programmes and career paths. Or you can just have a walk around our fabulous gardens! The EIT Open Day, from 11am and 2pm, also offers hands-on activities and a chance to see ...Read more
Leading Trades Training Centre Opens at EIT
EIT Hawke’s Bay’s newest facility has been built to exacting environmental standards that reflect the institute’s leading approach to sustainability and trend-setting international methods for teaching trades and technology. To be officially opened on Friday, August 13, the $8.5 million Trades and Technology Training Centre was designed and constructed to a number of environmentally ...Read more
Introducing Dr Mark Krasnow to EIT
Hawke’s Bay’s unique style of Syrah has the potential for putting this region on the world wine map as much as Sauvignon Blanc has done for Marlborough, says newly-appointed EIT viticulture lecturer Mark Krasnow. An American who has lived most of his life in California, Dr Krasnow took up his position at EIT Hawke’s Bay after five years’ post-doctoral research work at ...Read more
“Marketing art really isn’t the same as marketing toothpaste!”
According to our new Head of School, Arts & Design Dr Suzette Major “Marketing art really isn’t the same as marketing toothpaste!” “The mentality doesn’t work,” says the arts marketing expert. “Artists create for myriad reasons – it’s not just about money or the profit motive. A lot of marketing stuff doesn’t gel, and you need to understand that to market it.” ...Read more
Big Three Join Forces
A unique education grant has been launched to encourage tertiary study in Hawke’s Bay with service in the New Zealand Army’s Territorial Forces. The grant is a combination of paid work in the territorial forces and study at EIT. The grant, sponsored by Geon Print and Communication Solutions and The Services Charitable Trust, is being offered to Hawke’s Bay high school and EIT students who ...Read more
Undergraduate Student Interns Programme – Funded
I finally have information regards the TechNZ 2010 Undergraduate Student Interns Programme. TechNZ will fund $16/hr plus GST for maximum of 400hrs during the Xmas break from universities (between Nov and February). A project MUST be defined for the student, general work experience is not acceptable and the project must have a technological focus. Project Project MUST have a technological ...Read more
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