Kia ora ,

Level 3 in force for a further 12 days

We’ve just heard from the Prime Minister that Auckland will remain in Alert Level 3 for the next 12 days, to be reviewed on Friday 21 August. We had already made contingency plans for this eventuality, so this means the following measures will come into effect from Monday:

Campus closure but with click and collect service

Both our Mt Albert and Waitākere campuses will remain closed until further notice. There’ll be a very limited number of staff working on campus, including Security. 

We’ll be operating a Click and Collect service for the Copy Centre and Library at Mt Albert campus from Tuesday.

Online delivery of courses from Monday 17 August

We’ll move to full online delivery of all courses from Monday 17 August for an initial two-week period, please check your Moodle or contact your lecturer for more information. Teaching staff will be posting revised online learning plans on your Moodle course site by Monday which will provide you with an update for your courses, changes to assessments and recording student attendance.

Further information and guidance

I urge you to continue to monitor the official websites for further information and guidance, including COVID-19, Ministry of Health, and the Unitec website. We also aim to provide updates as they become available via our social channels. Follow our Instagram and Facebook page to stay in the loop. We'll send you more information on Monday.

Stay Well

If you are experiencing cold or flu like symptoms, you MUST call a medical or health professional first. This can be your current medical centre or:

• Call Healthline on its dedicated COVID-19 number 0800 358 5453 (or +64 9 358 5453 for international SIMS)
• or Unitecs Medical Centre (Te Puna Waiora) on 0800 10 85 10

I acknowledge the move to Alert Level 3 can be challenging, and urge you to stay vigilant as we do our best to once again reduce the spread of COVID-19. You will receive further communications on Monday with more information around studying from home. In the meantime, I encourage you, if you can, to take some time out this weekend to readjust and recharge.

Be proud of what we’ve achieved so far, and let’s keep moving forward together. He waka eke noa.

Kia kaha.

Helen Vea

Unitec Student President