“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.”

Suzette is fascinated by connections and applications of business philosophy to creative endeavour without compromising artistic integrity.  Most of her career has been based on that field.”

Now she is keen to apply her 15 years of academic and business experience to assisting EIT graduates find their place in New Zealand’s flourishing creative industries.

Suzette sees this as a team goal and, with that in mind, she wants to harness the “phenomenal talent” of staff at EIT’s School of Arts & Design.

Part of her role, as she sees it, is to make the connections between EIT’s Arts & Design School and the arts and design industry.   She also wants to see the school establish a strong sense of its own identity.

And all of this, says Suzette, is a real adventure.  “It’s a challenging position that combines my strengths and my passion for arts and design.”

“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.”

Suzette is fascinated by connections and applications of business philosophy to creative endeavour without compromising artistic integrity.  Most of her career has been based on that field.”

Now she is keen to apply her 15 years of academic and business experience to assisting EIT graduates find their place in New Zealand’s flourishing creative industries.

Suzette sees this as a team goal and, with that in mind, she wants to harness the “phenomenal talent” of staff at EIT’s School of Arts & Design.

Part of her role, as she sees it, is to make the connections between EIT’s Arts & Design School and the arts and design industry.   She also wants to see the school establish a strong sense of its own identity.

And all of this, says Suzette, is a real adventure.  “It’s a challenging position that combines my strengths and my passion for arts and design.”

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 train in the volunteer force and study at EIT. Neville Smith, Geon’s General Manager – Central North Island and Lieutenant Commander of the Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve, says “this is an opportunity for students to kick-start their military service while staying in Hawke’s Bay and getting an education.”

Successful applicants will do 52 days recruit training in Waiouru and then pick up studies at EIT. They will also be required to put in 20 days a year working some weekends with the reserves. Territorial Force personnel receive a daily rate of pay for any training attended.

The $2000 grant is to be paid in four staged allocations.

Applicants must be aged 17 years or over and meet entry criteria for the reserves and for their selected programme of study at EIT. Women and men are eligible and must live in the Hawke’s Bay region – from Wairoa to Dannevirke.

Applications close on 10 September and the successful grant winners will be announced on November 1.

The grant winners will be assigned to the 7th Wellington Hawkes Bay Battalion based in Napier. The recruit training can be completed between mid November to January (with a break for Christmas and New Year’s) or from February to April at Waiouru. Upon graduation they will be fully fledged members of the 7th Wellington Hawkes Bay Battalion, an infantry battalion that can trace its history back to 1863.

 Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Harker of the New Zealand Army’s 7th Battalion, based in Napier, said “the grant gives the recipients a chance to have it all.”

“Combining tertiary study with army training while living at home in Hawke’s Bay is unique to the region and is a great opportunity for students.”

 The training, physically demanding and with an emphasis on team dynamics, problem solving and adventure activities, will be followed by EIT study in the second semester.

After completing study at EIT, applicants will be able to apply to any of the services within the Defence Force.

There are three grants available per year for the next three years.

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 focus e.g. Engineering, Food & Beverage, IT, Agriculture, Horticulture, Viticulture, Winemaking, etc.
• NOT be accounts, sales, business or marketing focus.
• Project does not have to be novel R&D. Can be project, process, efficiency focussed.
• Project MUST be defined, not just general work experience.
• Must have benefit for business and student.

Student

• Project MUST be appropriate to the student’s qualification.
• 3rd or 4th year for a degree undergraduate.
• Diploma must be NZQA Level 7 or above.
• If you have not identified a student we can assist by supplying contact details for universities with suitable qualifications.

TechNZ are inviting companies to submit a 1 page expression of interest by mid August 2010. The one pager will ask for an outline of company details, brief overview of the project and benefit to your business.

TechNZ will select projects based on quality of the company (good R&D environment for student) and project. We will then select companies who we will pre-approve to go ahead and find and engage a student.

Please contact me if you have any questions or are interested in pursuing this and we can discuss your project.

Kind Regards,

Jenny Brown
Portfolio Manager

Venture Hawke’s Bay
Tourism House, 64 Dickens Street
PO Box 123, Napier 4140
New Zealand

P: +64 6 833 5895
F: +64 6 834 0299
M: +64 27 210 0253
E: jennyb@venturehawkesbay.co.nz
W: http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/

By offering a smokefree environment we are taking a leadership role in ensuring we provide a healthy environment to work and learn.

In New Zealand, around 5,000 people per annum die from smoking related illnesses of which 400 of these die through passive smoking.

We have decided our current policy was proving ineffective in combating the very real risks to non-smokers of passive smoking.

As a leading higher education provider in health sciences it is important for EIT to demonstrate leadership in significant public health issues.

With a smokefree campus, we will provide a healthier and cleaner environment where staff and students can thrive and take pride in the institute.

EIT is providing quit-smoking support in conjunction with the HB District Health Board.  In particular students and staff can access quit-smoking support through the Health Centre service on campus including nicotine patches, gum and lozenges. These items combined provide a sound method to support the smoker to “kick the habit”.

In working towards a “totally smokefree EIT the institute invites those with questions to visit www.eit.ac.nz/smokefree for the policy and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) listing.

If you would like to lodge questions there is a discussion group available on our facebook page (see www.facebook.com/eithawkesbay).

Napier-based educational historian Kay Morris Matthews, who is a research professor at EIT, compiled the database alongside her successful book In Their Own Right.

It tells the story of women and higher education in New Zealand up until 1945 but there was not room in the book to include all the profiles of the women or the schools.

Dr Morris Matthews has traced the educational and career pathways of over 700 women graduates from the University of New Zealand 1877-1920 back to their secondary schooling and through to their careers in teaching and other professions in the period 1878-1950.

In addition, there is a listing of over 130 New Zealand girls’ secondary schools (1850>) with the names of the foundation principals.

The database has been designed for easy use and can be accessed at www.womeninhighereducation.eit.ac.nz.

It will be of particular use to family historians, secondary school and tertiary students providing unique information about individual educated women and a first-time listing of the girl’s secondary schools. The database is free to use.

For further information contact Kay Morris-Matthews on 974-8000 ext 5470

We sponsor this category because EIT educates people to work in these professional businesses. With over 100 programmes – there is a wide range from business and computing to legal executive to travel and tourism to counseling programmes – all of which are appropriate for this category!

This year it was Best Travel which won our award –. While talking to Bill Sheppard, the Managing Director, he mentioned that he has had the pleasure to teach at EIT, while one of our Travel lecturers had been unwell.

He said that he had really enjoyed his time with the students and sharing his knowledge. What a great partnership between Best Travel and EIT.

Changing subject entirely – if you’ve got a senior high school student in your family you’ll want to know about the taster programmes that we’re running during the school holidays.

Year 11, 12 or 13s can come to EIT for 3 hours and try programmes that we offer during the first three days and Year 10s can come on Thursday. There are trades, business, Maori studies, early childhood and a whole lot more so please give us a call on 0800 CALL EIT.

If you have a vacancy – either full-time or part-time we have an interesting recruitment method.

EIT created a website called -jobs4grads- The idea is that it connects business and industry partners with our graduates.

You can register your jobs for our graduates on

www.jobs4grads.eit.ac.nz – or access it through our home page www.eit.ac.nz

By using this process we will automatically inform our graduates and our current students.

As an employer – all you have to do is login as an employer and the system takes you through step by step – it’s a painless and free service that EIT offers so you can reach our genuinely skilled students.

Graduates are armed with the knowledge and practical skills to excel in key industries to ensure they thrive in your work environment – they’re keen and work-ready!

If you’re looking for part-time staff and are happy for student to continue studying – that’s another option.  The majority of EIT students study part-time, so they are also keen to work part-time to keep their finances healthy.  Feel free to offer part-time work to students as this maybe a pool of people who you may not have been able to easily access previously.

If you have any queries – call me on 0800 CALL EIT

This category is open to all professional services organizations- which range from the Hastings Health Centre to accountants and lawyers, etcetera. We have chosen to sponsor this category because EIT educates people to work in these businesses.

With over 100 programmes at EIT – there is a wide range from business and computing to legal executive to counseling programmes which are appropriate for this category.

If you are Hastings based – our Hastings regional learning centre is in the Tower Building. Programmes offered include business and computing which can be studied either as classroom based or as flexible programmes – which means you can study from home.

These awards are a wonderful celebration of success and at EIT we’re pleased to be associated.

Changing subject entirely – if you’ve got a senior high school student in your family you’ll want to know about the taster programmes that we’re running during the school holidays. Year 11, 12 or 13s can come to EIT for 3 hours and try out a programmes that we offer. There are trades, business, Maori studies, early childhood and a whole lot more!!

Give us a call on 0800 CALL EIT.

At EIT there are 10 schools that offer over 100 programmes which vary from certificate to post-graduate levels.

If you are looking for a degree – we now have 10 for you to consider.
If you’re looking for an introduction to study, then we can help there too. So no matter what you have completed in your study or work lives – EIT offers a lot of choices.

Classes average at 17 students to one lecturer – so you’ll get personalized learning to ensure your success.

At the Main Campus in Taradale you can take advantage of a campus tour and see the modern facilities as well as our fabulous library and student computer suites.

Why not head over to the Taradale Campus or one of the five Regional Learning Centres to check out your options!

This year programmes are filling faster than we have ever seen – so if you are considering studying at EIT, then come in and get yourself organized, or you might miss out!

Come see us tomorrow – in Taradale we’re open until 6 pm and the regional learning centres are open until late afternoon.

In the marketing section where I work, we’ve been working with online specialists Mogul who are based in Havelock North. Our aim is to establish an online marketing strategy so that we can keep in touch with our current students, our graduates as well as future students.

It’s been an interesting learning curve with our facebook page. At the recent Careers Expo we had a photo booth so that high school students could have their photos taken and then we put these onto our facebook page. Students have tagged their photos and now will be receiving updates from us about interesting things happening at EIT.

We’ve also got some cool video clips on the facebook page showing the photo shoot of our latest prospectus, the careers expo and the photo booth at the expo, and some of our facilities including the modern science labs and the fabulous beauty clinic.

Check us out on facebook.com/eithawkesbay