Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
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Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is the largest tertiary provider in the Bay of Plenty and the third largest institute of technology in New Zealand.
We are home to more than 14,000 students, more than 1,000 staff, and we offer more than 150 programmes ranging from certificate to postgraduate level.
BAY OF PLENTY — Life during lockdown looked a lot different for adventurous environmental management students at Toi Ohomai.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Due to the current COVID-19 situation, Toi Ohomai has announced it would be postponing its three April graduation ceremonies.
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BAY OF PLENTY — More than 50 students from across the Bay of Plenty and South Waikato will be awarded with scholarships from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A free regional bus service for tertiary students will be launched in 2020 across the Bay of Plenty Region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The future of Tauranga’s business sector is secured if the regional finals of the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) is anything to go by.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology will be joining the Bay of Plenty’s international community in celebrating the Diwali Festival of Lights.
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BAY OF PLENTY — At Toi Ohomai, we believe that hard work and achievements deserve to be celebrated.
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BAY OF PLENTY — More than 15 regional and national employers will attend an event hosted by Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology aimed at connecting students with industry organisations in a bid to continue.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Environmentally-conscious consumers will be happy to know Toi Ohomai will be running its Sustainability Market for the second year after a successful launch event in 2018. The market, which coincides with Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week, will include stalls selling everything from multi-use straws, second-hand clothing to electric bikes and fresh produce.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The biggest challenge facing those with mental health issues is the stigma surrounding the subject.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The biggest challenge facing those with mental health issues is the stigma surrounding the subject.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Applications have officially opened for the 2020 Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology scholarship program.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s latest cohort of farming students in the Eastern Bay recently partnered with the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Toi Moana) and Waimana farmer Matt Gow to plant approximately 1000 native plants along a stream within the Tauranga River catchment.
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BAY OF PLENTY — This week, we launched our new student app and web portal, Toi Ohomai Hub.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Three students from our New Zealand Diploma in Forest Management (Level 6) course have been invited to attend the New Zealand Institute of Forestry’s (NZIF) annual conference.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is escalating its efforts to get rid of all single use coffee cups on campus this month. Typically made from paper lined with plastic that can’t be recycled, the World Economic Forum claims single use cups are killing the environment.
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BAY OF PLENTY — With last week being Bullying Free NZ week, Toi Ohomai joined the conversation with Pink Shirt Day activations on our Whakatāne, Taupō, Tokoroa, Mokoia and Windermere campuses.
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BAY OF PLENTY — 'Eyebrows on fleek' has become a popular look on the beauty front over the past few years.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Ask any culinary arts student what their goal is and it will probably be to work with some of the great names in the culinary world.
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BAY OF PLENTY — On Tuesday, 2 April, more than 500 Toi Ohomai students will be walking across the stage to celebrate their success at our graduation ceremony in Rotorua.
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BAY OF PLENTY — "My passion is fuelled by wanting to make a better life for my three amazing kids.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai's 2019 scholarship recipients were welcomed at an official awards luncheon in Tauranga on Monday, 11 March.
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BAY OF PLENTY — On Saturday, 23 March, our Culinary Arts (Level 5) students, in partnership with Good Neighbour and Te Aranui Youth Trust, will be participating in a rescue food cook-off with some of the Bay’s most renowned chefs.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Rotorua education specialist Joanne Hayes is on the hunt for excellence and leadership in the teaching sector.
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BAY OF PLENTY — As much as 98 per cent of New Zealand’s household e-waste - electrical and electronic waste – may be ending up in landfills, according to a study.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Great design is for everyone.
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BAY OF PLENTY — For some, education is a job.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Council welcomes our newest member this month, Liz Te Amo.
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BAY OF PLENTY — With decades experience in barbering and a love for a good, clean shave, Wendy Charlton is the new tutor for Toi Ohomai’s first cohort of barbering students.
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TAURANGA — Want to know more about organic production and be part of a long-term solution in the primary industry? Bay of Plenty’s largest tertiary institution Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is teaming up with kiwifruit and avocado packing specialists Apata to bring the Grow Organics event to Tauranga next month.
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BAY OF PLENTY — You’ll find Saunoa Pau, Junior Legal Secretary at Holland Beckett in Tauranga, preparing of a wide range of legal documents, managing a database of hundreds of clients, researching legal documents and fulfilling necessary day-to-day administration duties that require her to multi-task, yet remain super-focused for the most part of every day.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Understanding racial and ethnic bias in the nursing profession and then working out a way to reduce it are the objectives behind Sonia Hawkins doctoral research.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Martin Gatens started his dream job at Rotorua Canopy Tours after ten years in the retail industry.
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WHAKATANE — They may have graduated just last week, but six of the nine students who took on the agricultural course at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s Whakatāne campus this year have already landed jobs.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Andrew Parker has been inventing gadgets since he was a child and now finally one of his ideas is about to go global! The 32-year old Tauranga man, and Toi Ohomai IT graduate, has invented a fast-filling water gun that, after a three-year journey, has been taken to market by New Zealand toy giant, Zuru.
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BAY OF PLENTY — More than 1800 students from Toi Ohomai graduated across the Bay of Plenty region from Monday, 10 December to Friday, 14 December 2018.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The inaugural Toi Ohomai charity golf day raised more than $20,000 on Friday, 7 December 2018. The event was held at Arikikapakapa Rotorua Golf Club, with all proceeds going to the New Horizons for Women Trust.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai’s IT and computing students have collaborated with Bay of Plenty Rugby to create an app for the weekend's TECT National Sevens.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai’s Culinary Arts (Level 4) students have baked a batch of goodwill for the Taupō community.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Helping students to believe in themselves was one of the key components behind the nomination for a special award at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s end of year function.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai’s 2018 graduation will see the first class of graduates from its Bachelor of Community Health Course, which was launched in 2015.
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BAY OF PLENTY — For a long time, Adrianne Eaddy thought she would never get to live her dream of working in the aviation industry.
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BAY OF PLENTY — At Toi Ohomai, we believe that hard work and achievements deserve to be celebrated.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is launching new courses aimed at ensuring high school students, who speak and learn in te reo Māori, have the right achievement standards to get into degree level programmes.
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BAY OF PLENTY — With more than NZ$3 billion worth of exports annually, forestry is New Zealand’s third largest industry.
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BAY OF PLENTY — When you walk into the nurse training facility on Toi Ohomai's Rotorua Campus, you can’t help but look twice at the ‘patient’ lying on the hospital bed.
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BAY OF PLENTY — This week, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology co-hosted a symposium on indigenous business research ahead of the World Indigenous Business Forum, now it is supporting the country’s legal profession.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Jan Hastie is hoping the 30 per cent pay rise over the next five years promised to social workers at Oranga Tamariki will lure more people into the sector.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A focus on alternative and creative thinking was how Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology connected with innovation during last week’s Groundswell Festival in Tauranga.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology CE Dr Leon Fourie was all smiles today with the announcement by the NZQA that the institution has been awarded a Category 2 rating at its first External Evaluation and Review (EER) as a new institution.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is set to take another step in the direction of becoming a sustainable organisation, and has been granted $48,972 to be used for the installation of electric vehicle charging facilities at both their Tauranga and Rotorua campuses.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The courses offered by Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology will be on full display this weekend at the CANVAS Careers Expo in Tauranga.
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TAURANGA — Toi Ohomai library is now live with the Koha library system, supported by Catalyst IT.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The launch of the Miles Art Awards 2018 at Tauranga Art Gallery last Friday turned into a standout success for tutors and students from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Two tutors and one student took away three of the five awards on the night, and 10 of the 39 finalists were either Toi Ohomai tutors or students.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A new Adventure Tourism course starting in Tauranga and Taupō is getting ready to launch students into a career of thrills and action.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A group of international students at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology are pleased to be settling into life in the Bay of Plenty even though it wasn’t their intended destination.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Five Rotorua charities received a share of $18,000 today as the proceeds from the Toi Ohomai Charity House sale were given out at a lunch at the Mokoia campus.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai student Tuhoto-Airki Pene heads to Europe later this month to compete in two World Cup events as part of the downhill mountain biking world circuit.
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BAY OF PLENTY — For film buff and Bachelor of Creative Industries graduate Scott Boardman, working at Weta really is a dream come true.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Tauranga building apprentice Cameron Diack has won the regional final of the New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) Carpentry Apprentice Challenge, held at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s Windermere campus on Saturday.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A course in beekeeping will be on offer for the first time in Tauranga and Whakatāne this July.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Some of Rotorua’s most exceptional young people have been selected as finalists for the upcoming OneChance Youth Awards.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Before December, Toi Ohomai engineering student Mandela Petersen knew very little about boats.
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BAY OF PLENTY — “It’s a great time to be in carpentry in Taupo at the moment, but we just can’t find enough builders,” says Ian Chamberlain of Chamberlain Carpentry and Joinery.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A remote-controlled sensor to monitor orchard irrigation systems via the internet has launched a Toi Ohomai IT student and former graduate into the spotlight.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A new exchange programme between Kiwi and Scandinavian forestry students could be one step closer following a visit by a Swedish forestry expert.
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BAY OF PLENTY — As global warming subjects our country to more and more catastrophic weather events, a Toi Ohomai IT student is hoping a new app will help regional co-ordinators respond more quickly to civil emergencies.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Taupō’s Sonya Hemopo, a graduate of the Diploma in Beauty Therapy, only not runs her own salon, SMK Bespoke Facials and Grooming Room, but her creativity and hard work has seen her named ‘Student of the Year’ at the inaugural New Zealand Beauty Association Awards.
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BAY OF PLENTY — This week’s graduation ceremony in Rotorua will celebrate the Institute’s first ever male Early Childhood Education degree graduate, as well as student cohorts from several new courses.
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BAY OF PLENTY — When Kartsport Rotorua president and race convenor Brent Hatton first started racing karts 28 years ago in the old railway yards, he never imagined one day bringing his tertiary employer and his passion for the sport together.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai recently welcomed a group of 35 court judges from Thailand to the Windermere Campus.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Identifying how a Bay of Plenty mental health provider could help service users stop smoking is the focus of a Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology summer research scholarship.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Five of the Bay of Plenty’s most promising young sportspeople have just been awarded the coveted High Performance Sports Scholarships from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology.
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BAY OF PLENTY — While farming is seen as a traditional career, the modern agriculture industry is rapidly changing and offers lucrative opportunities to those looking for a rewarding career outdoors.
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BAY OF PLENTY — As one of New Zealand’s premier tourist destinations, Taupō has always punched above its weight in terms of hospitality.
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BAY OF PLENTY — From the forest to the laboratory, three Toi Ohomai students have been getting new insights on forestry science at Scion. Shideen Nathan-Ngaronoa, Honey Jane Estarija and Rob Tane are all students at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, the largest tertiary education provider in the Bay of Plenty and South Waikato.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Last night Toi Ohomai celebrated becoming the only New Zealand tertiary institute signatory to the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (UN WEPs).
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BAY OF PLENTY — Eastern Bay of Plenty high school business students put their start-up ideas into action yesterday at the 2018 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) KickStart event in Whakatāne.
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BAY OF PLENTY — While most of us enjoyed a long hot summer at the beach, a group of Toi Ohomai and University of Waikato students have devoted their entire holidays to try and turn their ‘start-up’ ideas into business ventures.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology will celebrate its commitment to women’s rights and gender equality in the workforce at an event being held in Rotorua next week.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Eastern Bay of Plenty’s Raanj ‘Rangi’ Rapana, has represented New Zealand in dragon boat racing, touch, waka ama, and as part of the kiwi Masters Women’s rafting team, recently won gold at the World Championships.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Toi Ohomai graduate Deepak (Deep) Kumar has been on a crusade to inspire kiwi kids to be healthier since graduating from our Postgraduate Diploma in Hotel Management in 2012.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A Tauranga woman who wants to install her art across Tauranga City is one of 25 Western Bay students to share $55,000 to complete tertiary study.
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BAY OF PLENTY — “Teaching people with special needs is a very rewarding job for me.
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BAY OF PLENTY — After finishing high school, Emma Fraser knew she wanted to keep studying, she just wasn’t sure what.
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BAY OF PLENTY — "The first time I stepped into a New Zealand classroom as a teacher, my anxiety levels were very high, just because I didn’t know how to deal with multicultural students.
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