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EIT Celebrates 40 Years

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his year marks EIT’s 40th anniversary – a significant milestone which is being celebrated in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti with events in October and November.

EIT research professor Kay Morris Matthews and EIT Tairāwhiti senior researcher Jean Johnston have co-authored a book on history of the two institutions, which merged four years ago. On Friday, 30 October, the amply illustrated First to See the Light: EIT 40 Years of Higher Education will be launched with an on-campus celebration in Hawke’s Bay.

The starting point for the 175-year chronology is the 1840s with the focus on land adjoining the fortified Ōtātara pā. Some 130 years later, this site below the landmark hill was to become the Hawke’s Bay campus.

EIT’s first incarnation was the Hawke’s Bay Community College, which opened on the site in 1975. Its evolution as a tertiary educator can be tracked in its changes of name – to the Hawke’s Bay Polytechnic in 1986 and the Eastern Institute of Technology in 1996.

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In 2001, EIT Hawke’s Bay merged with Tairāwhiti Polytechnic to become EIT, which has boosted the roll to 10,200 students this year.

Tairāwhiti’s beginnings date back to 1972 when the nowdemolished Central School in Derby Street, Gisborne, housed a secretarial college and a carpentry workshop. Occupying the site from 1978, Gisborne Senior Technical Division extended tertiary education throughout the Tairāwhiti and Wairoa regions.

This grew into Tairāwhiti Community College in 1981. The college was renamed Tairāwhiti Polytechnic in 1987.

A public open day at EIT Hawke’s Bay on Sunday, 1 November will include garden and art trails. On Wednesday, 11 November, EIT Tairāwhiti will celebrate the 40th anniversary and the official launch of the book with a celebration to be held in a marquee on the main campus in Palmerston Road, Gisborne.

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EIT Shapes a Bright Future

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or the last 40 years, EIT has – in its various guises – continued to evolve, tailoring tertiary education programmes to meet the needs of Hawke’s Bay and also, over the last five years, those of the Tairāwhiti region.

While the institute’s demographics show a spread of students across programmes, EIT is working to close the achievement gap between these groups – Māori, Pasifika and under 25s – and the general student population.

Building on a rich and vibrant history, today’s robust tertiary institution is planning its path for the future.

Trades Academy programmes, established in partnership with secondary schools in the area, and the Youth Guarantee scheme provides additional support to Levels 1-3 students.

EIT’s story is made up of the many people who have worked tirelessly to shape an educator that serves the wide-ranging tertiary needs of a diverse population spread over an extended and, in places, geographically challenging area.

There is a commonality in stories of struggle and challenges overcome that met in the merger of the two separate institutions, EIT Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic, in 2011.

While nationally recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading institutes of technology, EIT remains grounded in the regions of Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti.

Today, there are 10,200 students enrolled at EIT – just over 7810 in EIT Hawke’s Bay programmes and 2400 at EIT Tairāwhiti. And EIT is recognised as doing an excellent job in educating these students.

In the most recent four-yearly New Zealand Qualifications Authority review, it achieved the highest possible ratings – NZQA was highly confident both of its educational performance and its capability to self-assess. That effectively equates to an A+.

It is also helping keep school leavers in the regions with higher education offerings covering bachelor and master degrees and a range of postgraduate qualifications. EIT’s single largest area of programme provision is at degree level, accounting for 38 percent of all students.

Currently, there are 12 bachelor degrees – in arts (Māori), business studies, computing systems, Māori visual arts, nursing, recreation and sport, social work, teaching (two degrees – early childhood education and primary teaching), visual arts and design, viticulture and wine science.

There are also four master degrees, including one of the few nursing master’s degree in New Zealand. Next year, EIT launches a unique master’s degree steeped in kaupapa Māori philosophy. Students will be able to study Te Hono ki Toi (Poutiriao), the Master of Professional Practice (Creative Practice), by distance with an on-campus wānanga in Hawke’s Bay or Gisborne.

As chief executive Chris Collins points out, EIT is “two schools in one” providing foundation, applied vocational, professional as well as higher education programmes shaped to the regions’ identified and diverse needs.

In a further independent Government evaluation, EIT’s research performance ranked second amongst all New Zealand’s institutes of technology. Focusing on applied research projects, EIT had a higher percentage of top-ranked researchers than any other institute.

Covering a wide tertiary education spectrum, it is still required to make the financials work overall so that higher student numbers in some programmes may offset those with fewer enrolments but deemed worth running and having the potential to grow.

An ongoing challenge for EIT is the regions’ demographics. More than 70 percent of students fall into one of the Government’s ‘priority learner groups’ – categories it is targeting for educational advancement.

International students help support that growth while contributing to a more diverse campus culture. This year EIT Hawke’s Bay enrolled more than 450 international students from 40-plus countries and that number is expected to grow.

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IT Tairāwhiti has a history of trail-blazing leaders who have inspired and motivated others to commit to the vision of a regional tertiary educator.

Head of Gisborne Senior Technical Division David Brook progressed to director of Tairāwhiti Community College in 1981 when the Government reconstituted the division as a regional college.

“These six years saw redevelopment of the site which had previously been the Central School and the acquisition of land for the development of the Horticultural Training Centre in Stout Street,” says David. “I also oversaw quite an expansion in the range of courses and training opportunities.”

David’s own lifelong learning has been enriching, opening up professional and personal opportunities he couldn’t have envisaged in his younger days. So, from the outset, he wanted to engage with the local community in providing a resource that would allow continuing education at all possible levels.

“In particular, I got huge satisfaction when we established a Māori arts and crafts centre, just as the development of the horticulture centre gave us something quite unique.”

Tertiary institutions had very little autonomy in the 1980s, with Wellington making decisions on staffing levels and capital expenditure.

Hawke’s Bay Community College director John Harré assisted David in learning how to deal with the Department of Education. He also feels fortunate to have had “an incredibly supportive” board and council, chaired by Brian Bull.

“Lady Lorna Ngata helped introduce me to the Māori people. I was taken onto just about every marae from Wairoa to Te Araroa and in the process gained enormous respect for the wairua and history of the tangata whenua.”

Other supporters included the Department of Labour, which funded many basic training opportunities for jobless young people, the

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Department of Māori Affairs and local agriculture training officers who generated ideas and support for rural initiatives.

Local MPs Bob Bell and Duncan MacIntyre were very helpful and Minister of Education Merv Wellington backed the community college, “although I wasn’t too impressed when he told me we wouldn’t be needing a library because the students we would be working with wouldn’t need books.”

Sometimes local businesses proved difficult, raising their concerns about graduates setting up in competition.

“Above all,” David says, “the staff we had at the Senior Technical Division and Community College also shared the vision and got in behind it, often with woeful resources to support us.”

The lack of curriculum was a challenge in establishing the horticulture programme. However, specialist developers from the Auckland College of Education ran workshops for the keen new tutors – “this essentially set us up.”

Growth through responsiveness to local needs became possible in 1989 when changes to the Education Act effectively provided bulk-funding and a new Ministry of Education replaced the Department of Education.

The well-being of the community was at the forefront of Tairāwhiti Polytechnic’s response to Cyclone Bola, which devastated the region in March 1988.

Civil Defence used the campus during the ensuing flooding and the Rural Studies Unit remained closed as tutors and students cleaned up the Gisborne flats. A newly-created “Beyond Bola” department ran workshops, which were catalysts for reopening communication lines and pinpointing people and areas in need of help.

Stress management seminars were held and advice offered on managing soil erosion.

Looking back, David believes merging Tairāwhiti with EIT was the right thing to do. “There is so much more that can be done with a broader resource base,” he says.

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Te Ara o Tᾱwhaki Turns 21

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IT’s anniversary celebrations encompass Te Ara o Tāwhaki marae, which opened at the front of the Hawke’s Bay campus 21 years ago on 29 October 1994.

Drivers for the development of the wharepuni were the late Tuahine Northover, together with Joseph Te Rito, Mana Cracknell, Ihāia Hutana and Pauline Tangiora, as well as many others.

Te Ūranga Waka (meaning the landing place of canoes) is a hub for Māori activity and an active promoter of te reo Māori and tikanga. The architectural concept was based on the whare waka, with the waka as a representation of the learning journey.

The building’s form and east-facing orientation echo that of Te Ara o Tāwhaki, which is the symbolic heart of Te Ūranga Waka.

The vision was for a marae which would support students in their learning in a vibrant, kaupapa Māori environment. Over the years, as cultural awareness grew across the campus, it was appropriate for EIT to house its noho marae (live in) and hui (meeting) at Te Ara o Tāwhaki to give full expression to kaupapa Māori and Mātauranga Māori.

Serving as a symbolic gateway and cultural focal point for the campus, the 300sq m Te Ūranga Waka provides administration offices, meeting and research areas and an expansive reception space to showcase Māori arts and crafts.

More recent developments have been the opening of two spectacular adjoining buildings – Ko Ngā Ara Tūmanako in 2004 and Te Ūranga Waka, EIT’s School of Māori Studies, in 2012.

In 2011, the merger of Tairāwhiti Polytechnic and EIT Hawke’s Bay aligned the educational needs of the people of Te Tairāwhiti and Ngāti Kahungunu.

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TE REO CHAMPION RELINQUISHES BATON The passing of Materoa Haenga earlier this year was a significant loss, both for Te Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay.

MATEROA HAENGA

A kuia of Te Ūranga Waka and Te Whatukura and a champion of te reo Māori, Materoa was born in Gisborne and affiliated to Ngāti Porou. However, she spent most of her life in Hawke’s Bay.

Materoa taught te reo Māori at EIT Hawke’s Bay for 20 years and she was the coordinator and primary lecturer for the Bachelor of Arts Honours (Māori) programme. Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated honoured her contribution as a teacher of te reo in the iwi’s inaugural language awards in 2013.

She was in the first intake of students for the Institute of Excellence in the Māori Language, Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori, and was a translator for the Māori Language Commission, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori.

Leaving EIT at the end of 2014 to take up a position with the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board, Materoa was made an honorary fellow of EIT and maintained her close association with the institute and Te Ūranga Waka.

KUIA HONOURED BY EIT Rāwinia Te Kani, widely known as Nanny Ra, was the first to be honoured with EIT’s Tuakiri medal of distinction.

Tears of joy, karanga and waiata erupted into a moving haka as EIT chief executive Chris Collins awarded the medal – a highlight of EIT Tairāwhiti 2014 graduation ceremony. Toihoukura’s The medal was designed by Professor Derek Lardelli, who characterised Nanny Ra as someone who had dedicated her life

to benefit all the Māori community, te reo, the kōhanga movement and kapa haka.

Awarded the Queen’s Service Medal in 2006 for her unstinting service to Māori and the community, Nanny Ra passed away in June, aged 78.

Hundreds of mourners attended her tangi at Gisborne’s Te Poho o Rāwiri marae, where she and her husband Tokorua Te Kani were custodians for many years.

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Shortly after receiving her Tuakiri medal of distinction, Pauline Tangiora was encouraging her mokopuna to consider an education at EIT. The medal, presented to the Māhia resident at this year’s EIT Hawke’s Bay graduation ceremony, was established to mark the merger of EIT Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic to form EIT. Of Ngāti Rongomaiwahine descent, Pauline’s association with EIT includes tutoring in the Māori areas of nursing and health, serving on its council for three years and chairing its Māori consultative committee. She has been EIT’s kuia for the past 30 years.

In the institute’s earlier years, Pauline, her late husband John Tangiora, Heitia Hiha, Hiria Tumoana and other volunteers actively supported Napier’s Maraenui community.

Working with the dean of the Māori studies faculty Dr Joseph Te Rito and others, some who have since passed such as Tuahine Joe Northover and Canon Wi Huata, they encouraged Māori onto educational programmes.

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Ideaschool Designer Shines

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esigner Hayden Maunsell is an ideaschool star.

While studying for his Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design, Hayden had the opportunity to showcase his designs at a prestigious European platform for promising young artists.

With Creative New Zealand funding, he travelled to Munich for Talente, an annual event held as part of the International Trade Fair for Skilled Trades.

Hayden was one of four young New Zealand artists specialising in design, technology and craft/object art to accompany their work for the week-long exhibition.

Of 600 entries from young designers and artisans worldwide, his was one of just 100 selected for the 2013 showcase. His two table lamps, titled Dawn and Dusk, combined timber and coloured perspex in their bases, while the distinctive bulb in each lamp created different mood lighting.

Returning from Germany, he then won the supreme award in the EEC Student/Craft Design Awards with a third lamp in his series.

Judges said the table lamp Dark, up against a record 100 entries in the nationwide competition, was “exquisitely crafted” and “a beautiful, sculptural object”.

Hayden’s $3000 cash prize covered travel and accommodation expenses for a work experience with Tim Webber, an up-andcoming furniture designer in Auckland.

“I like people paying for my trips,” he jokes, adding “I am very lucky.”

While Hayden would love to travel again, he feels ready to settle and hopes to buy a house in Hawke’s Bay. Working now as a technician for ideaschool, he expects to complete a Master of Art and Design through AUT this year.

Next year he hopes to lecture ideaschool students in design

HAYDEN MAUNSELL, A GRADUATE OF EIT IDEASCHOOL.

while undertaking part-time study for EIT’s Certificate in Tertiary Learning and Teaching.

And if that isn’t enough, he remains committed to his vision of design practice.

“I find the design process de-stressing,” he says.

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n its various guises, EIT Tairāwhiti has gained a considerable reputation as a leader in rural studies, training a skilled workforce and shaping innovative programmes to meet the needs of the farming community in the region and beyond.

Gary Quinn joined Tairāwhiti Community College as a horticulture tutor in 1982, hitting the ground running with 12 young students and a minivan.

Over the Christmas holidays, Gary planned an orchard, classrooms and a nursery for a 4.5ha vacant site in Gisborne’s Upper Stout Street and the first full-time horticulture certificate course got underway in 1983.

While continuing to teach, he headed the Rural Studies Unit from 1986 and was manager of Physical Industries and Leisure Studies between 1993 and 2007.

The unit’s first viticulture and winemaking course launched in the late 1980s and a commercial winery was built on site. A vineyard and later a commercial olive grove were established on the Public Trust-administered Gowerville Farm. Wine and olive oil produced under the Waimata label continue to attract awards.

Tairāwhiti’s Olive Schools were key to developing New Zealand’s fledgling industry and they drew in participants from as far as Waiheke Island and Central Otago.

New Zealand’s first Certificate in Cable Logging was developed after foresters asked Gary to explore the training potential for a tree harvesting method new to this country but which showed promise for the east coast’s steep hill country.

The Pest Control programme, which was also offered nationwide and managed by the department, was another success, teaching participants bush survival skills and providing safety and health training needed to gain a gun licence and a poison handling licence.

Tairāwhiti Polytechnic adapted existing horticulture programmes to enable rural communities and individuals to establish home

LEARNING TO GROW VEGETABLES ON A RURAL STUDIES PROGRAMME. and community gardens, an initiative that has proved particularly successful in rural communities.

Gary and his Rural Studies team were open to trying these and other new ventures, appreciating that they could provide local jobs and boost economic development. That culture continues today.

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EIT Research Takes to the Skies

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anked one of New Zealand’s top two institutes in an independent research performance audit, EIT continues to apply its considerable research muscle to practical projects that will benefit the community.

EIT staff frequently collaborate with local and national bodies in providing evaluation and applied research services across a wide range of projects. A project that combines research skills and

leading-edge technology is an investigation into the use of drones as a bird deterrent in vineyards.

In undertaking a pilot trial over the 2014-15 growing season, EIT viticulture lecturer Tim Creagh teamed up with Valerie Saxton, a lecturer at Lincoln University’s Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Alice Rule of Precision Aerial Technologies Ltd.

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“The idea of using a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] is a great concept,” says Tim, “as most bird species that cause damage, although not timid, are easily scared and having a device that operates from above the bird (most bird deterrents operate from the ground) may be an advantage.”

The trial was staged at Indevin’s Phoenix vineyard flanking Hawke’s Bay’s Tukituki River, where bird pressure is high. The manuallyoperated drone, which can be flown in windy conditions, deterred all birds including hawks and resulted in less bird damage to fruit in the interior vines.

As Tim points out: “Flying drones is a sustainable option as drones have no carbon emissions (compared with the emissions from driving around on a quad bike, no soil compaction, no lead shot, no risk to native species and no risk of people having accidents with firearms.”

The research work will continue in the coming season.

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Business Studies a Local Option

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n a highly competitive world, businesses and organisations need graduates whose skills and knowledge can give them an edge.

EIT’s business studies offerings range from certificate through to master and postgraduate qualifications, providing choices and pathways in all aspects of business. Programmes focus on reallife business projects and workplace experience and, with small class sizes, expert lecturers can better support students.

Rachel Newland was keen to stay in Hawke’s Bay after leaving Wairoa College. She was also attracted by EIT’s Year 13 degree scholarship.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Business Studies, Rachel joined Fuji Xerox New Zealand Ltd and, while based in Auckland, she is always happy when her customer services delivery manager’s role brings her to the Bay. Husband and wife Gillian and Wayne Urry met in 1980 while studying the professional accountancy programme at the Gisborne Senior Technical Division, a year before it became Tairāwhiti Community College.

The pair subsequently left the region, returning to Gisborne in the late 1980s when Wayne – by then a qualified chartered accountant – took up a position with a local accountancy practice and served on the business studies advisory committee for Tairāwhiti Polytechnic, now EIT Tairāwhiti.

Sons Ben and Tim, awarded Tairāwhiti Trust scholarships, completed Tairāwhiti Polytechnic’s two-year Diploma in Business Studies while their mother was a part-time student on the same programme. When asked if they minded Gillian studying with them, both said they loved the idea.

The oldest of the sons, the late Ben, was top graduating accounting student in 2005. Gillian was top law student in 2007 and Tim in 2008.

RACHEL NEWLAND IN EIT’S PRINTING DEPARTMENT. “Our journey together started at the Gisborne Senior Technical Division,” says Wayne. “Education gives you a platform to learn.

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Nursing Graduates Fill Vital Roles

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IT has been delivering its Bachelor of Nursing programme from the EIT campus for 29 years and from Tairāwhiti Polytechnic since 2011.

The programme is very popular, with nursing making up the largest cohort at graduations.

It’s also very successful, with graduates consistently achieve a 100 percent pass rate in state exams to become registered nurses and 70 percent employed in their field within three months of completing their studies.

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TIA MARK (SEATED) WITH HER NIECE MAXI KIREKA-RUSSELL, SEATED ON HER KNEE AND HER DAUGHTER BAELEE KIREKA-MARK (RIGHT). STANDING LEFT IS NURSING LECTURER KATHY MANHIRE.

EIT also offers further study opportunities with masterate and postgraduate programmes.

Staffed by supportive and expert lecturers, teaching facilities are among New Zealand’s best, providing state-of-the-art technology and well-equipped clinical simulation laboratories.

One of only two renal pancreas transplant coordinators in Australia, EIT nursing graduate Tia Mark didn’t know what she wanted to do when she left school.

Impressed by the care she received when she had her daughter at Hawke’s Bay Hospital, she decided she would love to be a nurse.

“EIT had a really good reputation for their nursing degree and it was convenient for studying and family,” she says. “So I waited until my daughter started school and then I started the nursing foundation course and went on to do my degree in nursing.”

Tia can’t speak highly enough about EIT, the lecturers and the campus environment.

“I was treated like an adult equal, [and with] the support, especially being a Māori nurse, I was made to feel valued.”

patients, ensuring they understand the hospital protocols and processes.

For the last seven years Tia has worked in the National Pancreas Transplant Unit at Melbourne’s Monash Medical Centre.

East coast students are fortunate to have EIT on their doorstep, she says.

Of Ngāti Kahungunu descent, she takes it on herself to act as a liaison officer to the many Māori and Pacific Islander

“I could honestly say that if I had to travel out of the region I probably wouldn’t have done nursing.”

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Tasty Offerings in Hospitality Training

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IT’s hospitality school has fingers in many pies – so to speak.

Modern training programmes encompass real-life cooking and front-of-house services that are savoured by an appreciative public while providing trainee chefs, baristas and wait staff with valuable customer-facing experience.

COOKERY GRADUATE KAYLA HUGHES IN THE EIT HAWKE’S BAY TRAINING KITCHEN.

EIT Hawke’s Bay’s OTT Café attracts a diverse clientele, including a regular cycling group and local business people as well as staff supporters. The lunchtime queues can extend onto the terrace where diners are able to soak up the sunshine dining al fresco.

In the evening, the café transforms into the fully licensed Scholars training restaurant, affording students with a further opportunity to prepare and serve dishes to paying guests.

EIT hospitality teams have long been associated with leading events, and for many years have assisted with all aspects of the Hawke’s Bay A & P Bayleys Wine Awards gala dinner. Tutors are currently working on a menu for a French degustation dinner which is to be included in this summer’s FAWC programme of events.

As well as the Toru training restaurant on the Gisborne campus, EIT Tairāwhiti’s Pop-Up Café opened for business as a two-week trial in a pre-fab on the Rural Studies Unit site on the outskirts of town.

This became an immediate hit with the community, and it will operate eight weeks in each semester next year. Its popularity is such that the Gisborne Hospital virtually empties out over lunchtimes as staff and patients clamour for café treats.

The hospitality school is constantly looking to move forward, introducing new training options and ideas.

Innovations include cheese and sausage-making, quiz nights and a session on healthy eating options was recently held for business people.

This year, the OTT café offered breakfasts for the first time and next year a new patisserie programme will be added to the wide range of study options that extends from Trades Academy training to the Level 5 Diploma in Professional Chef Practice.

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Tairᾱwhiti Academic Promotes Mᾱori Achievement

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ccupying three percent of New Zealand’s land area, Tairāwhiti has a population that is 44 percent Māori. Dr Wayne Ngata has been pivotal in helping reflect that in the significant Māori content embedded in EIT Tairāwhiti’s programme offerings.

Having recently returned to the region, Wayne joined Tairāwhiti Polytechnic in August 1990 to teach te reo Māori and Māori studies in a position previously filled by Turuhira Tatare.

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The range of programmes taught at the time included the Certificate in Māori Studies offered through the University of Waikato.

The collective strengths of tutors in Māori studies and Māori art and design contributed to the further development of programmes and reputations and led to custom-designed buildings and departments.

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As student numbers increased, Rewi Thompson, an Aucklandbased architect with local iwi affiliations, was commissioned to design a functional space to house Māori studies. Opened in December 1994, this became known as Te Whatukura (the stones of knowledge in the whare wānanga).

Some of the outstanding graduates were employed to teach te reo Māori. Wayne, who helped them develop their teaching skills, believes maintaining the connections between students, tutors and the geographical places they come from is key to promoting learning in Te Whatukura.

Some students were second chance learners, others came straight from school. Native speakers who saw value in gaining qualifications were both a challenge and a joy for tutors who found they might learn as much as they taught.

People in the community worked with Te Whatukura, inviting students to hui, forums and activities in the Māori world. One outcome of that was a staff decision to focus on mōteatea (traditional song), an area they saw as seriously under threat.

Staff also felt obliged to extend the limited repertoire of traditional waiata sung on East coast marae, and Toihoukura joined with Te Whatukura in creating new and relevant mōteatea which became part of the teaching curriculum.

Joining the polytechnic’s management team in the mid1990s, Wayne still enjoys seeing the uptake of educational opportunities by whānau inspired by one family member.

Industrial closures prompted many to pursue other career training pathways.

Now a part-time research adviser at EIT Tairāwhiti, he recalls with satisfaction a man who, enrolling after the freezing works closed, gained a degree, became a teacher and has seen his wife and children succeed in their own careers.

DR WAYNE NGATA.

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arāwhiti Museum boasts one of New Zealand’s most outstanding collections of contemporary Māori visual arts – works created by Toihoukura’s best students over the last two decades.

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The school then nominates its best student for the Ruānuku scholarship – a student who is exemplary in a number of areas, says Associate Professor Steve Gibbs.

Tairāwhiti Museum’s exhibition designer and curator Jolene Douglas selects a work produced by this student for the permanent fine arts collection.

The Ruānuku scholarship is sponsored by arts patron Professor Jack C. Richards. It was established by Dr Richards and the then director of the Gisborne Museum’s Art Centre (now Tairāwhiti Museum) Greg McManus in 1995.

Since then, the collection has grown to include paintings, mixed media works, ceramics and weaving.

Internationally renowned as an applied linguist, writer and teacher trainer, Dr Richards was born and raised in Gisborne. Based in Sydney, he maintains his strong connection to Tairāwhiti, returning over summer.

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When Toihoukura established in 1992 in what was affectionately dubbed “The Barn”, it offered a one-year Māori arts and crafts programme.

The school has grown in all respects. Now occupying architectdesigned premises on EIT’s Tairāwhiti campus, its current offerings are the Certificate in Māori Visual Arts (Ka Tipu te Whaihanga) and the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts (Te Toi o Ngā Rangi).

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