Wintec Annual Report 2009
Wintec Annual Report 2009
Wintec Annual Report 2009
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OVERVIEW<br />
1995<br />
Land is purchased<br />
on Avalon Drive to<br />
establish a campus<br />
with ample space for<br />
trades, sports and<br />
hospitality training.<br />
2001<br />
Name changes<br />
to the Waikato<br />
Institute of<br />
Technology and<br />
two years later,<br />
the modern <strong>Wintec</strong><br />
brand is adopted.<br />
2007<br />
Award-winning<br />
Gallagher Hub<br />
opens and is<br />
swiftly adopted by<br />
students as their<br />
space for studying<br />
and recreation.<br />
1994<br />
Innovative<br />
Artechmobile is<br />
built and hits the<br />
road to provide<br />
mobile computer<br />
education<br />
to regional<br />
communities.<br />
2000<br />
First postgraduate<br />
qualifi cation is offered<br />
(Postgraduate<br />
Diploma in Nursing).<br />
2003<br />
<strong>Wintec</strong> opens<br />
Beijing offi ce.<br />
<strong>2009</strong><br />
<strong>Wintec</strong> wins three national<br />
tertiary education awards<br />
for its global role (particularly<br />
its partnerships in China),<br />
innovative support services<br />
(for its creative industries<br />
business incubator SODA Inc.)<br />
and relevant learning (for its<br />
employer partnership groups).<br />
<strong>Wintec</strong> receives Government<br />
funding to develop an<br />
agritechnology educational<br />
centre in Waikato, in<br />
partnership with worldrenowned<br />
AgResearch,<br />
AgITO, Innovation Waikato<br />
and the Coalition of 21st<br />
Century Schools.<br />
<strong>Wintec</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2009</strong> _ 5
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