Consistency is a key theme in the Dunedin flat of twin Heffernan sisters Kate and Georgia as they take aim at the rebooted ANZ Premiership.

The duo is part of a new-look Ascot Park Hotel Southern St…

A lust for travel and photography has led Joseph Pooley to Lake Tekapo, a destination the former mechanic reckons is one of the most beautiful places on the planet.

Joseph rolled the dice on a solid c…

New Zealand’s ‘home of netball in the Deep South’ will host the 2020 ANZ Premiership Finals Series with all six teams converging on Invercargill in August.

The revised season comes to a conclusion wi…

New Zealand’s six ANZ Premiership teams will prepare for home matches from 30 July with netball returning to venues around the country.

The revised schedule includes round robin games in Invercargill…

Over 200 unemployed workers from the Southern region attended the Agricultural Redeployment Expo in Queenstown and Te Anau last week. The new initiative, the brainchild of Penny Simmonds, Chief Execu…

Leading edge IT tutor, Anita Murphy, had her students’ welfare at the forefront of her mind when she organised for her Year 3 Bachelor of Information Technology students to sit their mid-year assessm…

It was a real pleasure to get back on campus in mid May after the COVID-19 lockdown period but we acknowledge what a privileged position we are in, in comparison to the many businesses that have suff…

Maree Howden, Deputy Chief Executive, Academic Manager, Head of Faculty Health, Humanities and Computing
Health and Social Services Skills Response Group

Chami Abeysinghe, International and Marketing…

The changes for the Reform of Vocational Education have continued and on 1 April the existing Council of the Southern Institute of Technology was dissolved, and a new Board of Directors was appointed…

The joy of classroom interactions without the delays and glitches of overloaded Wi-F and sometimes domestic commitments is without measure. It is a time to feel grateful for the ordinary. For the onl…

SIT/Telford and the Southern Rural Workforce Action Group and other agri-related organisations are planning to boost the agricultural and forestry workforces for the southern region. They have teamed…

Once the Lockdown Response Level 4 was activated, all New Zealanders were instructed to go home and stay home. This severely impacted our local tourism businesses and as a result has meant the loss o…

At SIT’s Annual Award Ceremony many outstanding young women received awards for their excellent contribution in the trades sector. The following young women were all celebrated for achieving the top …

Engineering and automotive trades students returned to SIT during Level 3 under strict health and safety conditions to undertake practical assessments. Head of Faculty Doug Rodgers recognised the imp…

As a niche provider of health and safety management programmes for students throughout New Zealand, SIT was delighted that the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand (HASANZ) awarded two of the…

In March the lives of all New Zealanders were turned upside down as the country went into lockdown, Response Level 4, to combat the global Covid-19 virus pandemic.

SIT Chief Executive Penny Simmonds …

These companies supported students in the music and audio production areas during lockdown to help keep their creative juices flowing. Our Music and Audio School tutors collaborated with these provid…