Whitireia Community Polytechnic

Whitireia Community Polytechnic
Te Kura Matatini o Whitireia

Motto	Living Learning Sharing
Established	1986 (as Parumoana Community College)
Academic staff	332 FTE 2005
Students	4178 EFTS 2007^[1]
Location	Porirua, New Zealand
Affiliations	Public NZ TEI, WRPF
Website	www.whitireia.ac.nz

Whitireia Community Polytechnic (Māori: Te Kura Matatini o Whitireia) is a crown owned tertiary education institute in New Zealand.

1 History
2 Campuses
3 Faculties
4 Programmes
5 References
6 External links

History

Whitireia was founded in 1986 in Porirua and was originally named Parumoana Community College. It was renamed Whitireia Community Polytechnic in 1989.

Campuses

Whitireia operates a number of campuses located on the North Island of New Zealand, with all but one being in the Wellington Region.

Campus locations:

Porirua campus on Wi Neera Drive in Porirua
Whitireia Performing Arts Studios at Pataka in Porirua
The Industry Training Centre in Elsdon, Porirua
Kapiti campus at Lindale, just north of Paraparaumu
Wellington campus on Cuba Street in Wellington
Auckland campus on Queen Street in Auckland

Faculties

Whitireia has five faculties^[2]:

Faculty of Arts and Communication
Faculty of Business and Information Technology
Faculty of Health Education and Social Services
Faculty of Service Industries and Trades
Te Wānanga Māori

Programmes

Programmes are offered in the following subject areas^[3]:

Arts and Communications
Beauty and Hairdressing
Business and Administration
Catering and Hospitality
Computing and Information Technology
Introductory and Foundation
te reo Māori
Nursing and Health
Online
Pacific
Social and Community Services
Teacher Education
Tourism, Sport and Recreation
Trade and Transport

References

External links

Whitireia Community Polytechnic website