Ako Aotearoa Northern Hub News

Teaching and Learning for Success for Maori in Tertiary Settings

The northern hub recently supported three NZ Association of Private Education Providers (NZAPEP) roadshows.

This year, again, we have been making contact with our constituents with a view to strengthening relationships. We are finding some useful ways in which we can work together to improve outcomes for students.

Ako Aotearoa administers the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards.

Continuing the drive to promote and encourage interest in and progress an institutional culture around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in various places throughout the region, a workshop for staff was held at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic last wee

Last week NZAPEP held regional meetings in both Auckland and Tauranga.

Last week the Northern Hub offered a further workshop in conjunction with Ace Aotearoa around ideas for collecting evidence of learner benefit in a report prepared for Ako Aotearoa by Anne Alkema (http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/collecting

This year Unitec's annual Learning and Teaching Symposium was held on 10 October in the stunning whare nui.

First of all, I would like to congratulate the six outstanding teachers from the Northern Hub who were awarded at the recent Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards (TTEAs) ceremony held at the Beehive in Wellington.

The Northern Hub and ACE Aotearoa joined together recently to fund a Men’s Sheds seminar in Auckland that attracted 37 people from Men’s Sheds and other community and educational organisations from as far away as New Plymouth an