A racing yacht designed by Rob Shaw, Head of MIT’s New Zealand Maritime School, has featured on Boating NZ’s website. Illuminate’s owner, Scott Fyfe, says he decided to commission the design after Rob’s boats caught his eye. Illuminate is a Shaw 1050 which means it is 10.5m long and designed by Rob Shaw. (credit: Boating [...]

One of New Zealand’s biggest football clubs is benefiting from a strength and conditioning programme set up by an MIT lecturer. Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Joza Fleming started working with the Eastern Suburbs men’s first team early last year and has now established a club-wide programme. Joza’s input is getting great results already says [...]

Professor Christina Hong, a vocational education leader of international standing has been appointed as inaugural chief executive of one of the country’s largest providers of on-campus and on-line vocational education, announced today by MIT and Unitec Chair Alastair Bell. On 1 January this year, Government-led reforms established the Manukau Institute of Technology and Unitec as [...]

Summer Shaneece Te Rore was one of fifty-five ākonga presented with qualifications at MIT’s Secondary School Tertiary Studies (SSTS) graduation ceremony. The ceremony, held at Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae on Tuesday 9 December, was an opportunity to celebrate students and their achievements in 2025 says Principal Gareth Leadbeater. Summer Shaneece Te Rore (centre) and some other students [...]

BMW mechanic Cadie Rotherham says she wouldn’t be where she is today if it wasn’t for MIT’s Trades Academy. After completing her academy programme in 2019, Ms Rotherham went straight into full-time study at MIT’s TechPark. Before moving into a one-year Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 3) in late 2020. A short time later, Cadie [...]

An MIT cookery student has been selected as a finalist in an Australasian mentorship competition with his Māori, Italian fusion entry. Hohepa Rameka is one of thirty-two apprentice chefs who will compete for a scholarship worth $10,000 as part Fonterra’s Proud To Be A Chef program. Mr Rameka at MIT’s School of Hospitality on Ōtara [...]

Manukau Institute of Technology celebrated a decade of teaching high school students vocational skills through its Trades Academy with a dinner at Dine Restaurant, Ōtara Campus on Tuesday 18 November. Secondary school representatives and students joined institute staff, both past and present, to recognise ten years of training delivered by the largest tertiary-based academy in [...]

David McCurdy delivered the third talk in the Xchange Series at Manukau Campus on Wednesday, September 22, 2025. In response to requests, Mr McCurdy repeated it online in October. The talk was titled “Addressing the Invisible Barriers: English Language Complications Faced by Technical Learners.” David explored how the historical layering and "fossil record" of the English [...]

Nataliya Sharma spoke eloquently about what she learned during the last two years at MIT A ‘Top Student’ award winner spoke about her journey as a woman in automotive at MIT’s Trades Academy prizegiving ceremony. Nataliya Sharma, a Year 13 student completing level 3 Automotive at TechPark this year, told the audience of ākonga, whānau [...]

The captain of an oil tanker has been judged best theoretical and best practical Master’s student at the MIT New Zealand Maritime School’s annual prizegiving. Sudershan Kant won both main awards for the Diploma of Foreign Going Master - Class of 2025 at the prizegiving held on Friday 17 October. Overall Excellence Award winners were [...]