Kia ora koutou,
We recently hosted a local advisory meeting here at EIT, where industry leaders had an opportunity to hear directly from the EIT executive team. We had 16 attendees representing 12 different businesses, as well as industry bodies. We asked for expressions of interest in supporting our program development, and have been gratified to have several offers of direct support. Our qualifications exist to support the Industry, and we are very keen to ensure we engage pro-actively with you.
Our post-harvest diploma students are close to completing the safe horticulture business course and will be starting fruit physiology and storage this month, sharing the class with the fruit production diploma students, which is enabling great dialogue and cross pollination of ideas.
Our Level 4s have started the Growing Environment looking at extreme weather events, whilst the Level 3s have just completed the propagation workshops and are starting on Crop Health.
We also have hearty cohorts completing the Certificate in Primary Industry program, and another orchard group upskilling on Excel.
Wishing you a great start to the season from the EIT team.
