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The new name was gifted by local iwi, and means "to aim high and achieve great heights; to be awakened by learning." [ 2 ] On 1 April 2020, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology was subsumed into Te Pūkenga (the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology) alongside the 15 other institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs).
The letter came in response to the proposed inclusion of mātauranga Māori in the school curriculum on equal terms with "other bodies of knowledge", with the authors arguing that mātauranga Māori "falls far short of what can be defined as science itself", and disputing "the notion that science is a Western European invention and itself ...
Tauranga Bond Store Category 1 1 The Strand and Anson Street, Tauranga Central: 1883 2008 7738 Built in 1883 as a warehouse and bond store, the building was owned by wholesale wine and spirits importers from 1908 to 1987, and has since seen various business tenants. It is the oldest remaining commercial building in Tauranga. [12] Kairua Wāhi ...
A high-power rocket lifts off at Taupiri. The New Zealand Rocketry Association is a model rocketry organisation based in Auckland, New Zealand.The NZRA holds launches and meetings bi-monthly at its Taupiri launch site, [1] an hour south of Auckland, and has an annual launch day. [2]
The National Science Challenges (NSC) were 11 ten-year collaborative science programmes in New Zealand, established in 2014 and ending mid-2024. They were "cross-disciplinary, mission-led programmes designed to tackle New Zealand’s biggest science-based challenges", funded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment .
Due to escalating costs caused by control system delays, the hybrid rocket for Bloodhound will instead be developed by Nammo. [16] On 10 June 2015, Jubb visited Stokesley School and spoke with Year 10 students extensively about Rocket Science and assisted them in fitting their own rockets with motors, which was a great success.
The company behind a search for pilot Amelia Earhart's possible crash site in the Pacific said a sonar image believed to resemble her plane turned out to be the sea floor's normal shapes.
Waterfront along Auckland CBD, a major hub of economic activity. New Zealand has an advanced market economy, [236] ranked 16th in the 2022 Human Development Index, [237] and fourth in the 2022 Index of Economic Freedom. [238] It is a high-income economy with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of US$36,254. [239]