Need a helping hand for study at Whitireia or WelTec? Check out our Whitireia Foundation Scholarships 2023.
Scholarships have launched!
Applications (for domestic study) are now open.
Get your application in as soon as you can. The CLOSING DATE is 28 January 2023.
We’re here for you!
If you have enthusiasm and commitment for your chosen course of study, we’d love to help you succeed. Have a read through the Application Form and Guide and APPLY!
Thanks, as always, to our amazing sponsors – they’re local businesses, families and individuals who demonstrate unwavering generosity and faith in our ākonga (learners).
Becoming Te Pūkenga
From the first day of September (Mahuru) in 2022, Whitireia and WelTec joined together to become part of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology.
Te Pūkenga brings together the existing Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) and Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) as one organisation. The aim is to develop capabilities that underpin work-based, campus-based, and online learning, as a successful, unified system. A comprehensive network of studying opportunities for ākonga and increased collaboration between programmes are key objectives. Career focused learning, reflecting and meeting the needs of learners, businesses and communities, and evolving to meet new and rapidly changing demands like Covid-19, are three capability-building workstreams that the new entity is entrusted to deliver. Read more in our September Newsletter.
Whitireia Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2022
Whitireia and Weltec
Since 2012, Whitireia and Weltec have been allied in a strategic partnership, with both now part of Te Pūkenga, alongside all other institutes of technologies and polytechnics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Whitireia is a name our people brought from Hawaiiki with them. They believe it came from ngā atua, from the gods. That name is very deep in the Māori world. There are two names in Māoridom that we say are from the gods, and Whitireia is one of them – Ihakara Arthur, Ngāti Toa kaumātua
Tohu – Kaitiakitanga and Ākonga
Two Tohu, Kaitiakitanga and Ākonga, have been crafted by Māori visual artist Manukorihi Winiata (Ngāti Raukawa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) for Whitireia and WelTec.
Watch this video to hear from Manukorihi Winiata on the elements and concepts intrinsic to the crafting of the two Tohu (kaitiakitanga – guardianship and ākonga – learners) for Whitireia and WelTec.
The Whitireia Foundation Scholarships 