Educators join forces to ensure Wanganui gets the best

Educators join forces to ensure Wanganui gets the best

Educators join forces to ensure Wanganui gets the best Wanganui-based tertiary education providers get together next week for a seminar aimed at and ensuring students in the region benefit from the best possible teaching.

A combined seminar and dinner, to be held next Monday, has been organised by providers involved in the award-winning Whanganui Tertiary Education Collaborative Venture which incorporates 12 Wanganui tertiary training providers. It will be held the at the Matapihi ki te Ao campus in Rutland Street.

One of the organisers, Sasha Crafar from UCOL, describes it as a seminar with a difference. “We are drawing on the collaborative relationship between providers, facilitated by the WTECV project, so that we can share ideas about best practice methods and techniques to develop student engagement”.

She says the seminar will bring together people from both Government-funded and private providers – tutors and lecturers, managers and owners, to network, consult and share information. “It’s another great example of Wanganui tertiary education providers working together as a team to improve educational outcomes for the whole of Wanganui.”

The seminar also offers a lineup of high profile and high flying speakers. Keynote speaker is Julia Bruce from Wintec in Hamilton, winner of an Ako Aotearoa Teaching Excellence Award in 2008.

Topical speakers include Chrissie Zurcher from Training For You, Carl Bates from Sirdar and Rangi Maniapoto from Wanganui Police.

The Government-funded WTECV project is a first in the New Zealand tertiary sector. This year it took first place in the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics of New Zealand (ITP New Zealand) annual awards, in the category of ‘Successful Cooperation – working successfully with other education providers, the community or industry.’

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