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UNEVOC Centre (Training provider) since 1994
Established in Hamilton in 1924, Wintec is now one of New Zealand’s largest tertiary education institutes educating more than 20,000 students each year on-shore, and delivering multiple programmes off-shore with international partners. Successful global alliances and partnerships have been established and vocational programmes and assistance delivered across Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. Our current NZ-based student cohort comprises 1000 international students from 53 countries. International partnerships with higher education Institutions include student recruitment, staff/student exchanges, teaching/learning resource development, joint research, articulated pathways, training, offshore delivery, campus management and a range of core consultancy and Technical Assistance.
Wintec provides hands-on, applied training and customized programmes to meet the changing needs of communities and their economies. The primary principles underlying Wintec approaches to teaching and learning are:
To build stronger communities through education, research and career development.
Wintec Vision
We are proud to be a high-quality institute of technology; with strong partnerships both in New Zealand and overseas, enabling us to compete in a global market.
We focus on delivering four major outcomes through our education and training programmes, research and commercial services:
Our success will be reflected through increasing the capability and employability of our students, the relevance of our products and services, the quality of our relationships (both in New Zealand and overseas), our contribution to improving the economic and social outcomes of our region, and the sustainability and effectiveness of our business and
commercial models.
Wintec Strategic Goals are:
The delivery of certificate, diploma and degree programmes through our schools and centres:
• Centre for Business, Information Technology and Enterprise
• Centre for Engineering and Industrial Design
• Centre for Education and Foundation Pathways
o Youth Guarantee
o Maori and Pasifika Trade Training
• Centre for Health and Social Practice
• Centre for Languages
• Centre for Science and Primary Industries
• Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance
• Centre for Teaching and Learning
• School of Media Arts
• Centre for Beauty Therapy, Hairdressing and Hospitality
• Centre for Trades
• Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation
Sharing knowledge about TVET | Secondary focus | ||||
Developing knowledge | Primary focus | ||||
Developing and building capacities | Primary focus | ||||
Teachers | Primary focus | ||||
Researchers | Primary focus | ||||
Policy makers | Not our target group | ||||
Private sector | Primary focus | ||||
Greening of TVET institutions and skills | Interested to learn | |||||
Migration | Interested to learn | |||||
OER and Online Learning | Interested to contribute | |||||
Equity of access in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
Gender equality in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
Fostering entrepreneurship | Interested to learn | |||||
Industry 4.0 / Smart production | Interested to learn | |||||
Capacity development projects | Highly interested | ||||
Policy oriented projects | Moderately interested | ||||
Knowledge development | Highly interested | ||||
Workshops and conferences | Moderately interested | ||||
Within my cluster | Highly interested | ||||
With Africa | Moderately interested | ||||
With the Arab States | Moderately interested | ||||
With Asia and the Pacific | Highly interested | ||||
With Europe, CIS and North America | Moderately interested | ||||
With Latin America and the Caribbean | Moderately interested | ||||