ITI NEWSLETTER
ITI's June NewsletterWelcome to our many new subscribers. This month's newsletter has a focus on students' successes and experiences. If you like Dancing with the Stars, you'll love our first story about a game designed by an ITI member's students. On a more serious note, we also have an interview with the first national PTE student rep and a speech from a graduating student.
We also welcome a new member, New Zealand Tertiary College, just as we welcome some positive engagement with the TEC in the last month.
Students Sabotage the Dancing Stars
As Dancing with the Stars fever rekindled around New Zealand, a group of seven digital media students at Auckland's Media Design School worked to develop an online interactive offering for the hugely popular TV show. The seven students spent two weeks planning and creating 'Sabotage the ... more »
ITI's Newest Member - New Zealand Tertiary College
This month ITI welcomes the New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) as a new member (view their member page here ). Established in 1982 as Kindercare Early Childhood Teachers College, the College changed its name to New Zealand Tertiary College in 1997. Next year, NZTC will celebrate its 25th ... more »
First National Student Rep from PTEs Making a Difference
Michael Coxon, a student at the Bethlehem Tertiary Institute, is the first PTE student representative at the national level and has found the role challenging but worthwhile. The Tertiary Education Commission established a Learners’ Advisory Committee in 2004 to provide consultation between ... more »
NZMA Student's Graduation Speech
A farewell speech to his class by Martin, a student at New Zealand Management Academies' Henderson Academy, gives a good insight into students' response to ITI members' style. Martin graduated from a Business Administration programme and is now employed as a Customer Service Representative for ... more »
Good Progress with TEC
ITI has made good progress with the TEC on several issues in the last month and we like to give credit where credit is due. ITI called for a meeting to discuss the 'distinctive contribution' of PTEs and that has led to a much richer discussion between PTE groups and the TEC. We were ... more »
The Big Plusses of Art & Creativity
Art and creativity are good for you. The surprise result from research at The Learning Connexion (TLC) is the size of the benefit. In a series of surveys students report an average 35% improvement in wellbeing since starting TLC's Diploma of Art and Creativity. If this was the finding of ... more »