Auckland Teachers Update Day
31 March 2016
Auckland Teachers Update Day
• Catherine Downes
Associate Director Future
Students
Auckland Advisers
• Sela Pole
Future Student Adviser (Pacific)
• Aaron Letcher Future Student Adviser
House Keeping
Fire alarm
Bathrooms
Breaks
Lunch
The team
• Catherine Downes
Associate Director
Future Student Advisers
• Alonzo Mason
Senior Future Student Adviser (Maori)
• Libby Gray
Māori Liaison Adviser
• Claire Culph
Future Student Adviser
• Cynthia McNabb
Future Student Adviser
• Aaron Letcher
Future Student Adviser
• Alex O’Reilly
Future Student Adviser
• Andy Howells
Future Student Adviser
• Sela Pole
Future Student Adviser -Pacific
• Taha Tangitu-Huata
• Student Ambassadors
Future Student Assistant
Programme for today
9:30
Welcome, University Update
Catherine Downes, Associate Director, Future Students
9.50
Faculty of Engineering, Update and new programmes
Tim O’Brien (Faculty Registrar)
10:20
Pasifika at Waikato
Sela Pole, Future Student Adviser (Pacific) and Cassandra Suemai, MBM student
10.50
Morning Tea
11.10
Waikato Management School
Chairperson and Associate Professor Stuart Dillon and Emma Kay, Student Relations
Co-coordinator,
11:40
Summer Start –Up Programme Scholarship
Nikki Kennedy talks about her experience as a student entrepreneur
12.10
Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship programme
Catherine Downes and Callum Saunders BMS student and Hillary Scholar
12:30
Lunch until 1:30 then departure
Law and Management Building
• Te Piringa - Faculty of
Law
• Waikato Management
School's Centre for
Corporate and
Executive Education
• Student services
Law and Management Building
• Five-storey office tower, rooms
below-ground level
• A "living lawn" roof
• Offices, computer labs, student
services, function areas, reception
and research areas, a sunken
courtyard and a moot courtroom.
• Furnishings in the moot courtroom
came from the old Manukau
District Court
• Vertical sunshade vanes that
symbolise the tukutuku reed panels
of a traditional meeting house
Law and Management Building
• Five-storey office tower, rooms
below-ground level
• A "living lawn" roof
• Offices, computer labs, student
services, function areas, reception
and research areas, a sunken
courtyard and a moot courtroom.
• Furnishings in the moot courtroom
came from the old Manukau
District Court
• Vertical sunshade vanes that
symbolise the tukutuku reed panels
of a traditional meeting house
QS Star Rankings
• 12 subjects in the top 250
• English Language and
Literature
• Linguistics
• Modern Languages
• Computer Science
and Information
Systems
• Geography
• Accounting and
Finance
• Business and
Management
• Communication and
Media Studies
• Education
• Economics and
Econometrics
• Law
• Sociology
Scholarships
Vice-Chancellor’s
Academic Excellence
School Leaver Scholarship
University of Waikato
Academic Merit
School Leaver Scholarship
Sir Edmund Hillary
Scholarship Programme
$5,000
No application required
$3,000
No application required
$10,000
per year
Applications close 31 August
Curriculum Enhancement
programme
• University strategy - a strong reputation
- pathways to the future
• Pathways
• University-wide curriculum enhancement programme
(CEP)
• A key purpose of this programme is to examine the
curriculum and for each of the Faculties
• In the context of the global, national and local
environments, a major objective of the CEP is to design
and deliver a more future-focussed curriculum that is
responsive to changing student, employment and societal
needs.
CEP
• examining teaching approaches
• opportunities for flexible learning
• variety of delivery modes.
• 15 point papers
• industry Experience
• 2018 applicants
• Pathways
August 2016
May 2016
June – July 2016
Visit us at Open Day
on 13 May
We’ll be back with
more info
Halls applications open 1 August
Course planning visits begin
August 2016
October – November 2016
December 2016
StudyLink application close
Make sure you’ve applied
to Waikato
Halls applications close 1 October
NCEA exams begin – good luck!
January 2017
NCEA results are
out!
Waikato will send
you a confirmation of
enrolment
February 2017
Semester starts
20 February
Most scholarship
applications close
31 August
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