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NorthTec is the region's largest provider of tertiary education, with campuses and learning centres in Whangarei city and Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, and Learning Centres in Rawene on the shores of the Hokianga, Dargaville, Kaikohe and our northernmost site in Kaitaia. NorthTec remains the only Northland-based Tertiary Education Institute (TEI) that provides programmes from foundation to degree level.History:Originally opened as the Northland Community College in 1978, with a staff of ten tutors, the college was hailed as ""a significant centre for learning and an administrative centre for courses to be run in the wider community."" In 1987 Northland Community College changed its name to Northland Polytechnic [Tai Tokerau Wananga] and to NorthTec [Tai Tokerau Wananga] in June 2006.NorthTec Today:30 years later our institution has taken courses beyond the main campus to the two-thirds of northland's population who do not live in Whangarei.NorthTec staff and management are committed to Charter to make tertiary education accessible to all Northlanders. They offer high quality and industry-focused education, with flexible learning options and a personalised classroom approach.NorthTec supports and encourages the development of staff and a strong research culture. Staff continue to participate in a wide range of research and other developmental activities, with particular encouragement being given to new researchers to attend workshops and presentations. Institute staff and established researchers are increasingly collaborating both internally and externally to ensure the quality of what they offer to students.Each year NorthTec welcomes over 200 international students from more than 30 countries. Future business people, chefs, artists, designers, ecologists, nurses and engineers learn alongside each other in classrooms, video conferences, online, in lecture theatres and in practical workshops and clinical placements. Education at NorthTec is challenging, varied, real, and exciting.

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