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  • 14 April 2021

    Weaving communities together through raranga

    Talei (Te Whānau a Takimoana) is immersed in her Ngāti Porou roots where she teaches raranga (Certificate in Māori and Indigenous Art) through Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

  • 12 April 2021

    Learning te reo Māori never stops

    When Dave Coyne was a kid, he knew when the adults were talking about something serious. So he spent a year on a training course immersed in te reo Māori and learning more about te Ao Māori.

  • 8 April 2021

    Tikanga teaches valuable skills

    Learning te reo Māori has led to Whananaki mum Krystal Worters to expand her knowledge of te Ao Māori even further. She’s just completed an introductory programme to learn more about tikanga Māori.

  • 06 April 2021

    Business programme brings benefits

    Donna Chamberlain hoped to brush up on her leadership skills this year but got more than she hoped for after enrolling at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

  • 31 March 2021

    Community focus follows career change

    After a successful engineering career Hari Rakena-Roberts was looking for a change which would bring more benefits to his community, and having that community thrust into the national spotlight gave him the final push he needed.

  • 29 March 2021

    Lynda reaps the benefits from business courses

    Lynda operates Lynda’s Log House, a guest house in the hills around Kaitaia, and enrolled in the Level 4 Certificate in Small Business and Project Management programme to help her understand more about successfully running a business.

  • 18 March 2021

    An artform woven into our culture

    Without raranga we wouldn’t have been able to clothe ourselves, have whāriki to sleep on or the baskets we need to carry or serve our kai in.

  • 11 March 2021

    Money management for financial fitness

    Most of us don’t learn the financial skills we need at school. The Certificate in Money Management gives you the tools to navigate to financial success.

  • 8 March 2021

    From curtains, clothing and costumes comes creativity

    Nephi Tupaea won the Supreme Award for costume design at Auckland’s Pasifika Festival in the early 90s and is now back in Heretaunga studying towards a Diploma in Indigenous and Māori Art at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

  • 26 February, 2021

    Kanorau Digital to help digitally excluded New Zealanders

    One in five New Zealanders lacks the skills to safely use the internet for online banking and grocery shopping or don’t know how to download apps on a mobile phone, a report shows.

  • 22 February, 2021

    New forestry course offers excellent job prospects

    Given the strong demand for workers in the Tairāwhiti forestry sector, a new course from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa offers graduates extremely healthy job prospects, says course kaiako (teacher) Sonny Hitaua.

  • 02 March 2021

    Reconnecting with te ao Māori through tikanga

    A mainstay of champion kapa haka Te Waka Huia for most of her life, Pīmia won the coveted title of Manukura Wahine in 2017. Off the stage, Pīmia teaches Te Hapūtanga o te ao Tikanga at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Gisborne. 

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