We welcome Northpower Fibre’s announcement on Friday, April 3, that it will waive its monthly wholesale connection charges for 842 student households in Northland. The waiver means online education is more accessible for students who would otherwise be living without broadband during the … [Read more...]
Northpower Fibre: Our dedicated founding sponsor
Northpower Fibre Chief Executive Darren Mason tells us how their ultrafast fibre network helped bring our trust to fruition. We didn’t look for a sponsorship, we built one out of need. It all came about in 2010 when we began rolling out the Northpower fibre network. Whangarei was the very … [Read more...]
Meet our Team: Allan Pivac
How and why did you come to be involved with Taitokerau Education Trust? It goes back to a Northland community leaders seminar in 2012. At the time I was working for Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, one of the three Iwi who had built and commissioned a fibre optic network to directly connect Whangarei … [Read more...]
Meet our team: Jo Brosnahan
Our Chair shares the story of how Taitokerau Education Trust came to be, and the people and organisations that worked together to make a difference for Whangarei and Taitokerau. How and why did you come to be involved with Taitokerau Education Trust? I became involved with the Taitokerau … [Read more...]
Digital learning brings te reo to Maori kids in Sydney
Online learning tools acquired through our Digital Immersion Programme have enabled one of our schools to bring te reo lessons to an Australian classroom. Te Kura o Otangarei principal Myles Ferris has collaborated with Sydney’s Briar Road Public School in an innovative move to connect Maori … [Read more...]
