Happy Birthday Whitireia!
March 15th 2011 at 11:12am, By Dave Guerin
Whitireia Community Polytechic is celebrating its 25th birthday today. While it started teaching back in February 1986 (to 48 nursing and 60 secretarial students), its official opening was on 15 March 1986. Now they have 9,000 students, 400 staff and have replaced most of the initial prefabs with purpose-built buildings.
Whitireia is pretty much the newest polytechnic in NZ. Wairarapa Community, Tai Poutini and Telford Rural Polytechnics were all established later, but only Tai Poutini now remains of those three – Wairarapa merged with UCOL and Telford with Lincoln University. Whitireia was also a brand new polytechnic, while Tai Poutini built on a long history of local school-based technical classes.
Happy birthday Whitireia!
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2 Responses to Happy Birthday Whitireia!
Ian Hall
March 15th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Well done, Whitireia, indeed. Some of us are old enough to remember being at the opening ceremony of the (then) Parumoana Comminity College. It didn’t take too long for the founding CEO, Turoa Royal, to persuade others that a more suitable Maori name might be appropriate for the new institution. Over the years, this has been a consistently well managed institution and well connected to the local community – perhaps a model for some others to follow?
Richard Hamilton-Williams
March 16th, 2011 at 11:51 am
And before Parumoana Wellington Polytechnic ran programmes in Cannon’s Creek. YPTP programmes from memory.