Twenty-five-year-old Aarona Hellesoe, who is soon to graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing Maaori from Te Tohu Paetahi Tikanga Rangatira aa-Tapuhi (MIT), currently lives with his partner Lydia and their six-year-old son, Kingston, in Onehunga. He’s working as a graduate surgical nurse in the orthopaedic and spinal cord injury ward at Middlemore Hospital.

A Master of Cybersecurity student who has been awarded an elite international certification, says he owes his achievement to the support and expertise of his lecturer, Dr Sreenivas Tirumala.

Dr Sreenivas Tirumala, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity lecturer at MIT, has been selected to join a global research team looking at using Quantum AI to combat cybersecurity attacks.

Third year Carpentry Apprentice/student Daniel Smith has secured a place in the final of the NZCB Apprentice Challenge after his recent performance in the regional heats.

Our Food & Beverage students are getting valuable hands-on experience every Tuesday in Dine, our on-campus restaurant at the Ōtara campus.

Business Manukau: Heart of the South brought its popular Safer Plates community initiative to our Manukau campus earlier in the week, offering car owners the chance to have anti-theft screws fitted to their license plates.

Five students from Rescare Home Trust, the residential community for people with an intellectual disability, are joining our Level 2 Certificate in Hospitality programme this year as part of a pilot programme to give greater access to students with disabilities. School of Hospitality lecturer Dell Griffin, who developed the pilot initiative, met up with the five students at Pakuranga-based Te Tuhi Café in December last year, along with School of Maritime lecturer and co-ordinator for the School of Hospitality, Sandra Pearce.

Your programme of study will continue as planned in 2024 while we work through the details of the Government's recently announced intention to disestablish Te Pūkenga.

MIT recently welcomed the Barista Champion of New Zealand 2024, Honoka Kawashima, as she prepared to compete in the World Barista Championship to be held on 1 May in Busan, South Korea.