Unitec Annual Report 2012 by Unitec

Annual Report 2012

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Contents Chairman’s report

Potential 28

Performance activity and highlights

Cyber Security Research Centre

Big steps forward in sustainability

Creating possibilities

Research Symposium

Scholarships, awards and grants

Fast and furious filmmaking

Chief Executive’s report Performance activity and highlights

08 11

People 12 Māori Success Strategy

Meet Cameron – Carpentry graduate

Pacific Success Strategy

Expedition 18 Building an inclusive environment

Students 19

Place 20

Partnership 38 IBM partnership

Meet Mahsa – IT lecturer

India business development

Run Walk/adidas Auckland Marathon

Mt Albert campus

Sponsorships – Blues, Auckland Rugby, Mystics, V48 Hours and Outlook for Someday

Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae

Partnerships – Massey High School Trades Academy

Northern campus

Performance 48

Waitakere campus

Statement of Service Performance

Governance Report

Financial Statements

Appendices 132

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Chairman’s report We can look back on 2012 with both a sense of achievement and optimism for the future. This year, an important focus for Unitec Council, along with the senior leadership group, has been to look at how we can accelerate the pace of our transformation. This has led to a range of new projects, but also substantial investment in a number of existing projects that will help us to move faster and make a greater contribution to our community. One of the most significant projects this year has been the agreement between Unitec and IBM to establish an IBM Delivery Centre at Unitec’s Mt Albert campus. This will provide hands-on, relevant professional experience for students while they are still studying, as well as a range of other benefits, including the introduction of an Earn As You Learn programme. This type of collaborative project with industry is an essential part of the contribution we can make as an institution. Not only does it provide students with the opportunity to gain valuable experience with a well-respected global company, it also provides a significant contribution to the Auckland and New Zealand economy. The establishment of our Cyber Security Research Centre, in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), is another example of our response to the changing education environment. Working with local businesses we have also established Tēpu, a joint venture with Rosebank Business Association. Tepū will work alongside businesses on projects that encourage innovation, build capacity and enhance competitiveness. It will also provide a range of business advisory services involving students and staff, such as business mentoring and coaching, strategic and business planning, tailored training and research.

As well as investing in these key projects designed to deliver new and innovative models, we have also continued to drive for greater participation and success of priority groups (Māori, Pacific and Under 25), and during 2012 we have seen a substantial increase in the number of Pacific students participating in our programmes. Our infrastructure investment programme has continued, with over $10 million invested in 2012. Part of this was spent on building Maanaki (the wharekai), which is a key part of the Unitec marae complex. We also invested in IT infrastructure projects, refurbishments, water reticulation improvements to enhance our disaster recovery capability and a range of other projects. We have continued to invest in our staff by engaging them in the strategic direction of Unitec and also undertook our biennial staff voice survey. This showed progress in terms of staff engagement and clarity of strategic direction while also identifying areas for future improvement. The external environment has continued to provide challenges for our students and the businesses who will be their future employers. The evolving Eurozone crisis, combined with an ongoing high New Zealand dollar, has continued to create uncertainty especially within the international environment. With the introduction of the Auckland Plan and the Auckland Economic Strategy there is now much greater clarity of the sectors and areas that will be the focus of future economic development. As a key education provider in the area, we have moved to align ourselves to those industries identified as growth areas, or those where gaps have been identified. This will become increasingly important throughout 2013 and beyond and was a substantial focus for the development of our 2013 – 2015 Investment Plan with the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC).

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Another key domestic driver was the increasing pace of work on the Christchurch rebuild and the anticipated increase in demand for building work in Auckland. During the year we have done a considerable amount of work with Manukau Institute of Technology to help align our provision across Auckland. It was pleasing to see that, during 2012, despite this uncertain environment, we experienced a 1.4% growth in our overall equivalent full-time students (EFTS). This was the result of a 1.9% increase in our domestic EFTS and an 8.3% increase in EFTS funded from other sources. This increase in EFTS has coincided with an increase in the number of students choosing to study full-time. This lower-than-anticipated EFTS growth (there was a noticeable softening of student enrolments in the second half of 2012) and lower-than-anticipated income from external research, combined with higherthan-anticipated salary costs in two faculties, has led to a surplus in 2012 of $3.899 million. In spite of the surplus not meeting our expectations, Unitec has been able to continue to progress essential initiatives that position it well for the future. It was pleasing that Unitec was also able to retire its debt incurred for the construction of the Waitakere campus, and maintain good cashflow.

Our Northern campus in Albany, which was opened in 2011, has seen much higherthan-expected demand, with student numbers exceeding even our most optimistic expectations. In 2012, there were 481 EFTS. The growth of this new campus combined with the continuing development of our Waitakere campus in Henderson, has further focused our provision in the west, north and inner west of Auckland. This fits with our ongoing collaborative agreements with Manukau Institute of Technology and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi and the regional needs articulated in the Auckland Plan. During 2013, we are anticipating a further tightening of our financial position as a result of the reduction of government funding for level 1 and 2 programmes. As we move forward into 2013 and start reporting against our next TEC Investment Plan cycle we can see that, while the financial situation will remain tight, we are well positioned to build on our work with businesses to align our provision to their future needs.

This year has been productive, and I would like to thank my fellow Board members for their continuing contribution and commitment, and all of the staff whose dedication and drive to improve the experience of our students has helped to make this year such a success. I would also like to make a special mention of our many business and community partners without whose support we would not be able to offer the learning environment we do.

Eduard (Ted) van Arkel Unitec Council Chairman

Performance activity and highlights

1.4

INCREASE IN EQUIVALENT FULL-TIME STUDENTS

of SAC-funded student population identify as Pacific

74% of MÄ ori students successfully completed their course

of students see Unitec as environmentally responsible

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Chief Executive’s report Over the course of 2012, the potential effects of a number of drivers of change in the global post-secondary education environment have become clearer in the New Zealand context. These drivers include: »» s ignificant debate about the value of higher education especially in terms of employment and employability, and for young people »» t he 'democratisation of knowledge'1 becoming tangible through, for example, the wave of massive online open courses launched over the past months »» t he ability of taxpayer funds to support public education infrastructure in light of future demand »» t he criticality of bridging the transition between compulsory and post-secondary education. During this year, Unitec’s Council and senior leadership group have been exploring how Unitec must continue to adapt and transform in this rapidly changing environment. At the same time, the past 12 months have seen substantial progress across the organisation and in our community at a time when we continue to operate in a challenging and uncertain environment. As the largest institute of technology in New Zealand, we have a significant contribution to make and at the heart of this contribution is the educational and employment success of our students. We have continued to make progress in both of these key indicators. It is particularly pleasing to see the steps being taken towards closing the achievement gap for Māori and Pacific learners, with the success rates of both of these groups improving faster than the institutional average, and the continuing high performance, in terms of participation, of these learners. Unitec’s student demographic

continues to be ahead of the long-term trend in the Auckland subregional demographic. Equity of success is a key long-term objective for Unitec as it is for most tertiary providers. We continue to focus on ensuring all programmes are engaging with, and responsive to, the needs of their learners, in other words that they engage with learners on the learners' terms. Intensive improvement actions were put in place in some environments, with a significant proportion of our programmes being redeveloped to incorporate active group learning and achieving the Living Curriculum Tick (an internal assessment of our education provision). We will continue to focus on achieving further improvement over 2013. We continue to benchmark our progress in this area through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) survey. The AUSSE has shown that Unitec has achieved very high ratings for active learning (well above both Australian and New Zealand benchmarks), and that our focus on increasing work-integrated learning experiences has begun to have traction, although more work is needed in this area. The biennial student satisfaction survey also showed a continuing high level of satisfaction among current students, with an overall satisfaction rating of 73%. The survey also reflected an increase in the number of students who indicated they would definitely recommend Unitec to others, up from 68% in 2010 to 75% in 2012. These findings were complemented by our graduate destination survey that showed 74% of graduates were in employment relevant to their area of study within three months of graduating. These employment outcomes have held up well in the face of a challenging employment environment, however, the Council and I view these outcomes as being nowhere near what should be achieved if we are producing consistently work-ready graduates from all employment-focused programmes. We are well into this journey but not yet at our final destination.

1. Ernst & Young, (2012). University of the Future: A thousand year old industry on the cusp of profound change. Ernst & Young, Australia.

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Collaboration is a cornerstone of our strategy and, as such, 2012 has been significant for the range and level of new collaborative initiatives. The biggest of these was the agreement with IBM to establish the first New Zealand-based IBM Delivery Centre at our Mt Albert campus. This will provide students from across Unitec with the opportunity to gain relevant work experience with a highly respected global brand. The relationship with IBM will also create 400 additional jobs and see the establishment of a range of additional areas of collaboration including research projects, Earn As You Learn programmes, scholarships, interns and guest lecturers. We also established the first New Zealand Cyber Security Research Centre in partnership with Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NICT. This joint venture aims to conduct research and provide organisations around the country with state-of-the-art, cloud-computing-age cyber security technologies. In the area of health science, we launched the Ä&#x20AC;whina Health Campus in partnership with the Waitemata District Health Board. This innovative joint venture creates a learning environment dedicated to student and staff inter-professional education, simulation, research collaboration and innovation. The campus was opened by the Hon Paula Bennett, Minister for Social

Development and Youth Affairs, and is designed to foster collaboration for health practitioners, community agencies and more than 1000 Unitec health science and social practice students in Waitakere. Following the launch in 2011 of Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environmental Sustainability Strategy, 2012 has seen the introduction of sustainability as part of the curriculum in 19 programmes. Over the year, more than 1600 native plants have been planted as part of the restoration of the Wairaka Stream, we have replaced staff bins with desk-top mini bins, introduced composting, included green building features within the wharekai, and established a sustainable arboretum. This flood of activity from students, staff and the community has resulted in Unitec being recognised with the National Sustainable Business Trailblazer Not For Profit Award at the 2012 NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards. All of these areas and achievements have been driven by staff, students and our wider community whose commitment and energy continue to provide inspiration. This year we have achieved a lot together, and I would like to thank all who have contributed for their passion and commitment.

We can also look forward in 2013 to new organisations joining us and adding their own value to our development, with the launch early in the new year of the IBM New Zealand Delivery Centre and the new initiatives and collaborations that it brings.

Rick Ede Chief Executive

Performance activity and highlights

of graduates would recommend Unitec

>90% of programmes now have embedded work-based learning

tonnes less paper was used at Unitec in 2012 compared with 2011

74% of graduates are in employment relevant to their area of study

19,014

The volume that Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water consumption was lowered by in 2012 compared with 2011

82% of staff say they are satisfied with their job

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of graduates are in employment relevant to their study

People are what Unitec is all about.

People Our students, our staff, our industry partners and our community are what make Unitec the vibrant, innovative and supportive learning environment it is. This year has been one of substantial achievements. Our students were finalists in the Microsoft Imagine Cup, we won a sustainability award, we received recognition for our equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives and our award-winning marketing campaigns. Unitec students have also won design awards, film awards and our Department of Performing and Screen Arts was voted one of the top 10 in the world. Our students We had 21,221 students (10,770 EFTs) enrolled in 152 programmes of study in 2012 with around 66% of all equivalent full-time students being enrolled in programmes at level 5 and above. The number of Māori students increased by 4% in 2012, while Pacific students made up 17% of the total government-funded students. International equivalent full-time students made up around 16% of our student body. A priority for us is ensuring students get the right support and information when they need it and in a way they can use it. At the end of 2012 we signed a new contract with USU that changed it from being Unitec’s Student Association to being a service provider for us. The changes mean that we will be able to increase our direct communication with students, have improved coordination of activities and have greater control over the look and feel of communications that go out to students. We also ran two student surveys over 2012 measuring student satisfaction and student engagement with Unitec. The AUSSE survey – a student survey undertaken by tertiary institutes across New Zealand and Australia – showed that Unitec had improved on our 2010 scores on all scales of student engagement – learning, environment, interaction with staff, experience and academic challenge.

Our graduates Our graduates go on to work in a range of fields contributing to business and the community throughout New Zealand and the world. Employment outcomes for graduates are an important indicator of the relevance of our qualifications and quality of our teachers. Through our annual graduate survey, our focus is on creating a profile of recent graduates to look at their employment situation in the months after graduation. In 2012, the response rate increased by 16 percentage points and this has helped improve the reliability of the information we use. Eighty-two percent of our graduates were studying, working or combining both, with 74% in employment relevant to their area of study. Fifty-three percent of graduates also indicated they were interested in returning to Unitec for further study. Our staff Unitec has a wide range of academic and professional staff who bring extensive knowledge, experience and expertise to the job. Many of our teaching staff are working professionals who are authorities in their fields, industry specialists with in-depth knowledge of their subjects and professional academics undertaking research in their areas of expertise. Eighty-three percent of our academic staff have a degree, with 60% having postgraduate qualifications and 15% with doctorates. In 2012, funding was awarded to 22 staff members through the Professional Development Fund for allied and non-academic staff. Overall, staff training and development was higher than in 2011, although below budgeted expenditure. The 2012 staff survey indicated an improvement since 2010, with 82% of staff saying they were satisfied with their job. Scores generally improved across the board, with key strengths being overall engagement and job satisfaction, a strong sense of teamwork and a clearer understanding of how they contribute to the success of Unitec.

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Māori Success Strategy The Māori Success Strategy is driving remarkable change.

The Māori Success Strategy, which aims to improve the educational outcomes of Māori students and their whānau, is now firmly embedded across Unitec and is driving change. Champions for success During 2012, a number of new positions were created with the appointment of a new Dean of Mātauranga Māori and three Kaihautū Mātauranga Māori, one within each of the faculties. As champions of the Māori Success Strategy, they play a vital role in driving the strategy’s implementation and in working with our staff to enhance Māori student engagement, success and retention – ensuring that we provide a supportive environment and positive experiences for Māori students. They also provide a mentoring role, offering advice 14

and support for staff and students around Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and helping to build the capability of staff to engage with te ao Māori. Through their networks we will open up new pathways and new opportunities for active engagement with Māori communities. Māori in trade and industry In August, Unitec and Māori in Tertiary Education (MITE) hosted two special events, the Māori Affairs Trade Training Dinner and the Māori Trade Event for secondary students. MITE is a joint venture between Unitec, Manukau Institute of Technology, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and the University of Auckland to support Māori student training and employment in trade and industry. Both events align closely with our vision of “going the extra mile to help prepare work-ready students”.

of MĀori students who took part in the Whai Ake mentoring programme completed their first year of study

This page: Te Noho Kotahitangi – Unitec’s cultural heart. Opposite page: A welcome onto Unitec's marae; Hare Paniora, Unitec's Pae Arahi.

Robert Borrell Recipient of a oneyear Māori Carpentry Scholarship for Ngāti Whātua o ōrākei descendants

"My family is all involved, we’re from Ngāti Whātua. I was planning to do carpentry anyway – even without the scholarship – but in the end it was a better option. And the course was good.

The dinner – hosted by Unitec Chief Executive Dr Rick Ede and opened by the Minister of Māori Affairs, Hon Dr Pita Sharples – honoured graduates from the original Māori Affairs Trade Training Scheme, which ran from 1959 until the mid-1980s. The event also brought together a number of trade and industry organisations helping to foster valuable internship and employment opportunities for current tertiary graduates, amongst a network of supportive industry employers. At the Trade Event, Māori secondary students were given a 'taste' of careers in trade and industry, with interactive demonstrations and workshops from multiple tertiary providers. A ‘speed dating’ section at the event also gave qualified trade and industry graduates the opportunity to meet prospective employers.

Whai Ake mentoring programme The Whai Ake mentoring programme, set up to support Māori students in their first year of study, saw over 90% of participating students – or ‘mentees’ – completing their first year of study in 2012. Following the tuakana/tēina (older/younger sibling) mentoring model, mentees are paired with a senior Unitec student, who has been through the Whai Ake programme, and are provided with pastoral, cultural, financial and academic support in a kaupapa Māori environment. Students of the programme say they appreciate the opportunity to connect and share as a whānau and to receive support and encouragement from other Māori students who are doing well. It’s a way of celebrating Māori success.

"I had a job lined up and went straight from Unitec into work. My family helped me find the job, but it was set up through MITE. Riana there helped my family out a lot. She’d pick us up. Get us from A to B.

“I didn’t know what to expect when I started, now I can’t wait to get qualified.” "I’m doing commercial residential with Livefirm Construction, a sub-contractor to companies like Hawkins. At the moment I’m at a power station on the Shore and I’ve been to Sky City and Waiheke Island. “I didn’t know what to expect when I started, now I can’t wait to get qualified.”

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Meet Cameron

“I worked on the construction of Auckland Art Gallery’s 22 ceiling panels. Each panel was constructed on a custom-made table, and some had to be built in separate pieces so they could be transported. There were 224 pieces altogether. It took 22 floor staff at the biggest part of the contract to install the panels and I was there to supervise and deal with technical issues. Every piece of New Zealand kauri used was hand picked for colour and grain, and I checked it for colour blending and finish.

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Together with my team we made the Art Gallery that the world sees today. I’m proud of the responsibility I was given and I’m sure I did Papakura Joinery proud.” Cameron Wintle Joiner, Papakura Joinery

Pacific Success Strategy The Pacific Success Strategy has been placed in the spotlight this year, with numerous successes recorded for the team at the Pacific Centre for Teaching & Learning. At the very start of the year, a Pacific Orientation was held for all first-year students to introduce them to the Unitec environment and provide networking opportunities with their fellow students and staff. As an extension of this, for the first time all three faculties supported a Fanau Evening for first-year Pacific students and their families. The Pasifika Strategy 2010 – 2015 was evaluated across the three faculties, as well as the directorates and services, and the Pacific Centre held a Unitec-wide Pacific staff planning day. Collaboration with external stakeholders was also high on the agenda. The Police

of SAC-Funded Pacific students successfully completed their course

Recruitment Programme now has over 140 police officers in the New Zealand Police who are alumni of Unitec, and, in 2012, 30 students were enrolled into programmes within the Faculty of Technology and Built Environment, as part of the Pasifika TEC Scholarships programme. A ‘Return to Nursing’ programme was also developed in collaboration with the Department of Nursing and Languages, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, to support Pacific-trained nurses to gain nursing registration in 2012.

The Pacific Centre continued to work with various organisations in the community, such as Raise Pasifika, Ako Aotearoa, West Pacific Fono, Pacific in the Park – West Auckland as well as government agencies such as the Ministry of Education, TEC and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), to ensure the work we are doing is valuable and relevant. Research into the entrepreneurial activities of people in Vanuatu was presented to the Consulate General of the Republic of Vanuatu by the Pacific Centre and the Department of Management and Marketing. It was part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project, designed to evaluate entrepreneurial activity worldwide.

Expedition In June, Unitec held an Expedition at the Auckland Museum to present the updated strategic framework to all staff. Designed to bring staff together to establish a collective understanding of where Unitec is heading and how staff can work collaboratively and individually to help achieve this vision, Expedition was an interactive and informative day off campus.

With a tailored event for leaders within Unitec and a separate event for wider staff, Expedition provided Unitec staff with the opportunity to discuss elements of the strategic framework in depth and how it can be applied within different areas of the institution. Throughout the course of the event all staff participated in a clue hunt around the museum galleries, two interactive workshops,

and a question and answer session, and heard directly from the Leadership Team sponsors of the four strategic initiatives. Expedition was not a stand-alone event but the start of a dialogue about Unitec’s future; how far, how fast. Projects supporting the refreshed strategic framework presented at this event continue to be planned and delivered across the institution.

This page: Unitec's award-winning career-finding app, YouFinder, at the Coke Expo; Potential students using the YouFinder app. Opposite page: Unitec Pacific graduate; Equity and Diversity Manager Matthew Farry.

Building an inclusive environment

Ending the year on a high note, in December we received a certificate of acknowledgement from the Office of Ethnic Affairs for our success in equipping staff to communicate across social and cultural boundaries. At the ceremony, which took place at Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, 16 front-line staff received certificates for completing the Intercultural Awareness and Communication (IAC) Programme.

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded Māori students

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded Pacific students

2009 74% 2010 73% 2011 76% 2012 78%

Successful course completion rate for all SACfunded students

2009 82% 2010 74% 2011 73% 2012 79%

Successful course completion rate for all students

Note: 2012 figures are preliminary estimates (based on data as at 31-01-2013) and are subject to change.

2009 73% 2010 74% 2011 76% 2012 76%

Successful course completion rates

2009 61% 2010 63% 2011 66% 2012 68%

Over 2012, we have made a number of changes to improve the experience students have at Unitec. The Student Satisfaction survey highlighted areas for us to focus on. We have made improvements to our online enrolment systems, making enrolment processes more accessible. We have streamlined communication processes to make sure students get the information they need when they need it about the services that support them to successfully complete their studies. We have started to look at how we can engage better with our alumni, and have enhanced our social media profile.

We continued to support diversity and inclusion on campus by implementing the Ally Network Programme. Ally is an initiative that aims to create a more inclusive culture by promoting greater visibility and awareness of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) staff and students and their related issues. Unitec is the first New Zealand tertiary institution to use this programme. The Ally Network is made up of staff and students who want to support the building of an inclusive working and learning

2009 68% 2010 71% 2011 73% 2012 74%

Students

environment for all. Unitec joined the Trans Tasman Ally Network in June, in association with the University of Western Australia (UWA), and supported by Queer@Unitec.

2009 77% 2010 77% 2011 79% 2012 79%

The programme is an initiative of our equity, diversity and inclusion strategy, Towards Inclusive Excellence, and was designed to promote an inclusive learning, working and campus environment for staff and students. By helping staff to build the capability to communicate effectively with people who are socially and culturally different from themselves, the programme aims to improve cultural understanding across Unitec. In

August, the EEO Trust’s Life and Work Awards acknowledged the programme as one of the top four nominees in the Ethnic Diversity award category.

2009 77% 2010 77% 2011 78% 2012 79%

In May, our Intercultural Learning and Dialogue Programme was announced as a finalist in the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (IPANZ) Gen-i Public Sector Excellence Awards – Excellence in Ethnic Diversity category.

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded students who are under 25

Successful course completion rate for international full fee paying students

Successful course completion rate for students with disability reported

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Our place is a vibrant, innovative learning environment.

2964 number of international students at Unitec

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Place As well as our three campuses in Mt Albert, Henderson and Albany, our students and staff take part in a number of initiatives and projects throughout Auckland. In 2011, we developed our sustainability strategy and we have spent 2012 embedding this into our environment, learning and curriculum. Over the year, staff rubbish bins were replaced with desk-top mini bins, we introduced composting, included green building features within the wharekai and established a sustainable arboretum. The planting of native trees as part of the Wairaka Stream Restoration Project, as well as a range of waste-reducing initiatives we have put in place, mean that more staff and students see Unitec as environmentally responsible. In 2012, we started the ‘We Make the People who Make It’ campaign, focusing on Auckland City and celebrating the men and women who’ve built our amazing city – the carpenters, joiners, plumbers, civil engineers, builders, site managers and surveyors whose skills have put Auckland on the map. As part of this campaign, we created the ‘Made it Map’ encouraging people to put their name to the buildings they’ve helped create. Almost 300 people so far have tagged themselves on the map. In September, Unitec’s landscape architecture students took part in PARK(ing) Day. PARK(ing) Day is an annual international event in which participants use metered parking spaces in an effort to create a temporary 'park' installation or public space. Our students took over two parking spaces on Shortland Street in Auckland’s central business district, where they created a 3-D image of Auckland City to encourage members of the public to nominate what they wanted their city to look like by the year 2050. The map was then presented to the Auckland Council.

In September, we completed the comprehensive, library-specific Insync client survey. Again, more than 2000 students and staff participated. Insync allows us to benchmark our performance and impact against the libraries of 40 other, mainly Australasian, tertiary institutions. All but one of the 40 institutions are universities – Unitec is the only institute of technology participating. The survey rates respondents’ perceptions about the importance of a number of factors including communication, service delivery, facilities and equipment, library staff and information resources. Over 80% of respondents think library services – staff, resources and spaces – ‘support their study and research’ and ‘enhance their overall Unitec experience’. The student and staff surveys completed through the year showed improved scores across the board, with staff feeling more engaged and 75% of students saying they would definitely recommend Unitec to others. Nine out of 10 graduate survey respondents would also recommend Unitec to others. Our Northern campus in Albany has continued to flourish, with almost 1200 students (481 EFTS) undertaking courses in 2012. This is a greater than predicted expansion rate, and work is being undertaken on that campus to further improve student facilities and the environment. Our Waitakere campus in the heart of Henderson has over 3000 students attending courses, and with the opening of the Āwhina campus at Waitakere Hospital, our connection with, and commitment to, the community remains strong.

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Mt Albert campus The opening of the new facility enhances Unitec’s capacity and capability as host to manaaki manuhiri.

The Mt Albert campus has seen a number of exciting developments this year. Unitec’s stunning marae complex, Te Noho Kotahitanga, was completed with the opening of our new wharekai (dining room), Manaaki, in November. Manaaki links the ornately carved wharenui (meeting house) Ngākau Māhaki with our teaching and learning space, Puukenga, and enhances not only the physical marae and wider Unitec environment but more importantly our role as hosts in caring for our manuhiri (visitors). Aptly named, Manaaki meaning 'to care for, share and provide hospitality,' the opening of the new 200-seat facility enhances Unitec’s capacity and capability as host to manaaki manuhiri (care for our visitors).

In June, to celebrate World Environment Day, we held a planting day to kick start the Wairaka Stream Restoration Project. Students from Unitec’s Engineering Department worked with David Phillips, Head of the Civil Engineering Department, and Caleb Clarke from Morphum Environmental to examine ways to improve the hydrology of Wairaka Stream. As a result of this, a fourstage restoration plan was developed. The Planting on World Environment Day marked the start of Stage One. Unitec staff and students joined the Friends of Oakley Creek and local residents to plant over 10,000 plants and enjoy a free barbecue afterwards. Mel Galbraith from the Department of Natural Sciences is gathering key information about the Wairaka Stream to provide a baseline for measuring campus

10,000 number of plants and shrubs planted at unitec in 2012.

This page: Manaaki, Unitec’s new wharekai. Opposite page: Lynda Toki, Unitec’s Kai Awhina.

Alistair Kay Architect of the wharekai

“I see building as a very precious opportunity. More and more we are looking at the world and saying resources are not there to be wasted. Land, particularly land connected with something special, is even more precious. So this was a unique opportunity for me to build next to the wharenui. biodiversity. Lecturer Penny Cliffin and her students have been developing Unitec’s tree collection into a nationally recognised sustainable arboretum and are now starting to look at pathways and connections through campus and alongside the stream. After consultation with staff, students and other organisations located on our campuses, we have signed up to go smokefree in 2013. Our Smokefree/Auahi Kore Policy will come into effect on World Smokefree Day, Thursday 31 May in 2013, and includes all three of our campuses – Mt Albert, Waitakere and Northern. This initiative will help us ensure we are providing a healthy working and learning environment for our students, staff and communities. A number of support measures will be put in place, to help ease our staff and students’ transition. Unitec’s Health, Safety and Environment team will also train

additional staff and students to support its ‘quit smoking’ and nicotine replacement education programme, which will be rolled out from early 2013.The policy will apply to all staff, students and visitors to each of its three campuses, and cover all carparks and vehicles on Unitec grounds.

"The community around the marae made me very welcome. I was able to engage with Lyonel Grant [the master carver] and he took me through the concept he had of a manaia creature reclining on the site - with the wharenui as the head and the wharekai as the body that connects to it.

The IBM New Zealand Delivery Centre will be based on the top floor of building 172, currently housing the Departments of Communication Studies, Management and Marketing, and Accounting and Finance. Refurbishment began at the end of August and is due for completion early 2013. Staff and students' classes were rehoused in order for building work to start. Additional car parking is being developed adjacent to Building 172.

"We spent a lot of time refining what we would build before we drew it up and that was why the building succeeded, because of an engagement over time and the thoughtful process that we went through before committing to the build. "It’s not just about the materials and keeping within a budget but what everybody in the community brings to it. Everybody has to take the building on and say ‘this is ours’. For me the fulfilment is that people take the building and make it their own.” UNITEC ANNUAL REPORT 2012

A vision beyond its time

Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae is unique in New Zealand. It is the first marae for almost a century that has been built incorporating more traditional architectural approaches. Te Noho Kotahitanga is a hub for teaching and learning about te ao MÄ ori, a place for ceremonial and celebratory gatherings and a repository of local and historical knowledge.

The Northern campus is embracing innovation in teaching and support. Northern campus The newest campus in the Unitec stable turned one in 2012, with celebrations held in August. The Northern campus, based in Albany, serves the educational needs of students and the community of the North Shore and Rodney regions. With the population of Auckland north of the harbour bridge expected to grow from 329,000 in 2012 to 431,000 in 20 years’ time, the Northern campus is well placed to meet the needs of this community. Covering programmes including business, communication, information technology, health care, trades and languages, the Northern campus offers industry-relevant qualifications to equip students for future employment as well as offering preapprenticeship training. The campus has outgrown predictions, with 618 students enrolled in 2011 and almost 1200 students (481 EFTS) enrolled in 2012. Of these, 93 people identified as Māori and 67 as Pacific. The Northern campus is embracing innovation in teaching and support. Careers NZ is piloting an office at the campus, to be onsite to help students find the right roles, and to support them in their search for employment. As their only North Shore-based office they provide independent advice to students and the community.

Another innovation in teaching and learning is the smart sheds the building technology team use to teach students the ins and out of the building trade. Available at both Northern and Mt Albert capmus', the Northern site is based inside a massive warehousestyle environment. Students can build in all weather and use their smart phones and other technology to enhance their learning.

1195

students enrolled at Northern campus in 2012

Plans are under way to expand the breadth of industry areas covered at the campus as well as the level of programmes on offer, including applied degrees. With the redesign of Student Central (Te Pae Kōrero) and improved meeting spaces, the Northern campus is preparing for another busy year in 2013.

Waitakere campus The west is a unique area of Auckland, and in 2012 Unitec celebrated 10 years of having a campus serving the community in that region. Siobhan Marshall, who played Pascalle West in Outrageous Fortune and is a Unitec performing arts graduate, was a special guest at the themed event, aimed at thanking the key stakeholders who have supported the Waitakere campus as it has grown and flourished.

The Waitakere campus has become known for having a great choice of programmes, from certificates to master's programmes, that are well matched to the local community’s needs. Staff members who work from the Waitakere campus are proud to be part of the local community and are passionate about inspiring students to achieve. In 2012, the Āwhina campus was officially opened. The Āwhina campus is a joint venture between Unitec and the Waitemata District Health Board that opens the doors for practical collaboration, including research, innovation and learning in a productive and specialist environment. Based in the refurbished Snelgar and Health West buildings at Waitakere Hospital, the Āwhina campus is a physical and virtual hub that works alongside community organisations to encourage and promote collaboration and develop the future health workforce in west Auckland. Since Unitec opened its doors in Henderson 10 years ago, over 3000 students have graduated from social and health-related programmes. Many of these students have had the benefit of having practical training at the Waitakere Simulation Centre and in Waitakere Hospital. In 2012, there were over 3000 students (1420 EFTS) undertaking courses, with 474 of these identifying as Māori and 637 identifying as Pacific.

3113 students enrolled at waitakere campus in 2012

Top left to right: Students on Mt Albert campus; Lecturer Kamuka Pati using the smart shed; Students on the Northern campus. Below left to right: Celebrating 10 years at the Waitakere campus; Unitec graduate Siobhan Marshall.

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Our potential lies in our students, our staff, our graduates, our community and our industry partners.

of programmes now have embedded work-based learning

Potential Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential lies in its students, staff, graduates, community and industry partners. Our four key strategic initiatives: Highly Productive Talent, Reframing our Workforce, Reconceptualising our Services and Unshackling the Property Anchor helped guide our progress through 2012 and will help drive continued transformation. Over 2012, we have seen significant developments. In 2009, Unitec committed to a new approach to learning and teaching â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Living Curriculum. This approach is in line with best practice internationally. The Living Curriculum is about students being more actively involved in their learning. Over 90% of programmes now have embedded work-based learning practices. Fifty-five percent of programmes have been redeveloped with the Living Curriculum. The Department of Foundation Education revised the programme design of the Certificate in Foundation Studies (Level 2) and the Certificate in Foundation Studies (Level 3) for delivery in 2013. The new framework, Bridgepoint, links education with employment routes or vocational pathways. The vocational pathways are guided by industries across the sector and increase the relevance of learning. They ensure we get valid learning outcomes that are supported by real-world project-based activities. As well as the redeveloped Bridgepoint programme, we will be delivering the 60-credit Certificate of University Preparation (Level 4) and the 120-credit Certificate in Foundation Studies (Level 4) in partnership with Massey University Foundation Education, from 2013. Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eLearning strategy continued apace in 2012. Although the whole-of-institution-funded initiative was completed at the end of 2011, much activity and progress continued throughout 2012. The faculties retained eLearning Development Advisors, and several departments retained funded release time for eLearning Community Coordinators, meaning the level of support for embedding and capability development was retained at a high level. During 2012, a major upgrade to Moodle 2.4 was undertaken. An iPad community

of practice, with more than 100 members, was established and remains very active, and several wireless mobile device pilots were either progressed or initiated. All this was made easier by continuous improvement to the infrastructure including expansion of the wireless network. Unitec continues to prioritise the development of capability and innovation in eLearning to stay ahead of international trends in web-based pedagogy. In 2012, we also embedded our Environmental Sustainability Strategy. We were the first New Zealand signatory of the United Nations Commitment to Sustainable Practices of Higher Education Institutions and won the 2012 Sustainable Business Network Trailblazer Not for Profit Award. With the range of waste-reducing initiatives we have put in place, the student and staff footprint is becoming smaller and shows that everyone is taking on board the sustainability message. Sustainability is now part of the curriculum in 19 programmes, and with more planning to incorporate it in 2013 and with a fully developed online Environmental Management System, we are in a position to seek ISO14001 certification in 2013. This will bring the organisation into line with best international business practices. As an institute of technology, our research is applied and practical. It has an impact on the world around us and can be used by the people in the industries we support. We give priority to research that makes a difference to our stakeholders, to our students and to the community. Students and staff have undertaken a range of research projects that have benefited the environment, the community, our business partners and local government. In 2012, our research magazine, Advance, was redesigned and the Advance research blog created. We are continuing to develop our research capability and industry recognition for applied research.

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Cyber Security Research Centre Another major event for Unitec has been signing a joint venture with National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan’s national research institution. The new Cyber Security Research Centre is staffed by Unitec researchers, with the physical space at Unitec’s Mt Albert campus, while the equipment and funding is provided by NICT. The Centre has been set up in response to the rapidly changing online environment, including a rise in cyber crime, and has provided a unique opportunity for Unitec’s Department of Computing to become world leaders in cyber security. The Cyber Security Research Centre aims to produce new results in this cutting-edge area of research and produce highly employable graduates who are in demand around New Zealand. This new agreement includes a three-year research project headed by Associate Professor Paul Pang, and will involve both staff and students, who will have the opportunity to be part of high-quality research outputs and come away with the knowledge and experience vital to providing a safe cyberspace environment in New Zealand and around the world. Cyber security is vital to protecting New Zealand’s infrastructure assets and this is one of the main reasons for this kind of

research, which could prevent serious future issues. The aim of the Centre is to keep New Zealanders safer. Aside from the obvious opportunities provided by the new Research Centre at Unitec, other by-products have already emerged from the collaboration. A doctoral student is currently at NICT for one year, paid for by NICT. On his return, he will have a wealth of knowledge to put back into the Centre and will continue his research with help from NICT and Unitec supervisors. Through the association with NICT, the Department of Computing is also working with another tertiary institution in Japan, the Nara Institute of Science and Technology

(NAIST). The arrangement includes a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to do research, staff exchanges and student exchanges, and has come about as a direct result of the move into the cyber security arena. Students from Unitec have already travelled to NAIST (funded by NAIST) to get information and use their facilities for projects related to work we’re doing here at Unitec. The new Research Centre offers students and staff with opportunities to become experts in an important field worldwide, and offers an essential combination of teaching and research that will produce work-ready graduates in an area of need in New Zealand.

Opposite page: Dr Kazumasa Enami and Executive Dean, Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Leon Fourie officially open the Cyber Security Research Centre; Chief Executive, Rick Ede signs the MOU.

We’re excited by the first-rate capabilities of the researchers in Unitec's Department of Computing.

“NICT has many relationships with research institutions around the world, and we expect these partners to maintain our high standards in everything they do, not only in terms of their research outputs, but also in terms of the institution-wide policies and procedures.

Dr Kazumasa Enami

Vice President of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

"I am happy to say that Unitec easily meets our requirements for an outstanding research partner. I met personally with Unitec Chief Executive Rick Ede and the leadership team, and was impressed with their vision for the institution. The professionalism and organisation I saw at Unitec has given me confidence that this will be a long-standing and sustained relationship. “Our aim is to become the leader for cyber security research in New Zealand and eventually in the wider Asia-Pacific region; the new Cyber Security Research Centre is another step towards that.

Dr Hossein Sarrafzadeh Head of Department, Computing

"Many commentators are saying that if you want job security, look to cyber security as a profession. I think we’ve combined teaching and research in an environment where graduates will come out ready for work in niche areas, and areas of need in the industry. We want our students in New Zealand to be able to develop products for the international markets. It’s our aim to create a cyber security capability in New Zealand that directly translates to export dollars for our economy.

"Collaboration is the most important thing for us, and it’s why we are here. We’re excited by the first-rate capabilities of the researchers in the Unitec Computing Department and believe the relationship will only strengthen us in the fight against cyber attacks, and ensure both institutions become world leaders in this area of research. "We are hoping to extend the collaboration to other areas of mutual interest in the near future and are looking forward to working with Unitec on a wider scale.”

We’ve also been able to send students on exchange to NICT and NAIST, and this will continue in the future. This by-product of the arrangement with NICT is just as important as the general aims we have for the centre, because the most important thing for us is the students. This is out of a clear strategy that Unitec is following, centred on producing highly productive talent, innovation in teaching and learning, and an excellent student experience. If we train them well, then we’ve achieved our goal. To train them well we need a real-life environment for them to learn in; the new Cyber Security Research Centre is the best way to achieve that.”

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Big steps forward in sustainability Award winning High-quality environmental sustainability practices became a reality in 2012 as Unitec won the Sustainable Business Network Trailblazer Not for Profit Award. The award is given to organisations that show leadership in sustainability, and, according to the judges, Unitec showed not only the desire to improve its performance but also “deepened its stakeholders’ understanding of sustainability − extending to investing in regenerative practices and aspiring to create shared value. Unitec has a commendable vision for their core delivery areas which together with a strong collaborative approach is delivering very impressive results. They have robust governance, strategic planning and reporting regimes, plus admirable sector leadership.” Internationally significant Unitec also became the first New Zealand signatory of the United Nations Commitment to Sustainable Practices of Higher Education Institutions. By signing the commitment and responding to the urgency of global sustainability issues, Unitec cemented its existing pledge to sustainability at an international level and took a major step towards becoming a leader in sustainability in the Australasian tertiary sector.

Teaching what we’re preaching Sustainability has been acknowledged as an essential part of our curriculum, and a new requirement has been added to the Living Curriculum that our programmes include sustainability content. A goal of 15% of programmes meeting this requirement in 2012 was easily met, with 19 programmes now officially recognised as having sustainability content.

The percentage of staff who consider Unitec environmentally responsible

Culture of sustainability To help create a culture of sustainability Unitec held multiple events for students and staff in 2012, showcasing sustainability across the three campuses. Staff and students both became more aware of Unitec’s commitment, with surveys showing that 68% of staff and 67% of students see Unitec as environmentally responsible. At the end-of-year staff awards, the sustainability team won the Chief Executive’s Award in recognition of their hard work.

Better practice on campus Greening our campuses is seen as a priority and a range of new initiatives were put in place in 2012. These included food scraps composting, staff mini-bins, double-sided printing, replacing leaking water mains, establishing a sustainable arboretum, a bike rack design competition, worm farms for both on-site childcare centres, green building features within the new wharekai and a new carpooling service. Environmental Management System Unitec now has a fully developed online Environmental Management System. This positions Unitec to seek ISO14001 certification in 2013, bringing the organisation into line with best international business practices and positioning it to work towards full sustainability reporting in the future. Accessible to all Unitec staff, students and key stakeholders, the Eco-Portal online platform ensures that Unitec remains fully accountable for its commitments and encourages staff and student engagement.

From left to right: Planting day at the Wairaka Stream; The award-winning sustainability team.

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Unitec’s water consumption went down by

in 2012 ,there was A reduction in unitec’s paper consumption of at unitec in 2012 there was a decrease IN waste of

Architecture student

“As an eco-rep and student representative on the Environmental Sustainability Strategy Committee I had the chance to experience what was going on at Unitec – both in policy making and advocacy at board meetings, as well as in practical measures and what was taught in the classroom.

Student footprint

"During the year I had many chances to get involved in tree plantings, lectures and conferences on sustainability, advocating for recycling. I enjoyed watching an institution becoming a more sustainable school!

Waste kgs/EFTS 2012

35.72

2011

36.53

2010

Water

39.33

"An exciting aspect is the amount of teaching we had on sustainability. As an architecture student it's a big part of our curriculum, but many teachers would willingly promote ‘sustainability’ in-depth.

m3/EFTS

2012

7.75

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9.48 10.16

Energy KWh/EFTS 2012

1,261

2011 2010

1,250

1,265

"I also found that through my involvement with the advocacy team I had a stronger connection to the place I was studying. Thanks to the feedback and statistics, as well as the vast amounts of resource and enthusiasm provided by Carolyn Cox in her role, the giant task of making Unitec more environmentally sustainable was made plausible, achievable, and fun.” UNITEC ANNUAL REPORT 2012

Our campuses provide a learning environment where students can achieve their potential. Our research is applied and practical. It has impact on the world around us and can be used by the industries we support. We look for creative new ways of doing things so that whatever our students study, they leave Unitec with the skills they need.

Creating possibilities

This page: Nigel Adams, winner of the Research with Impact prize, with Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Simon Peel; Two minutes 30 seconds into Saul Taylor’s talk. Opposite page left to right: Scholarship-winning student Monari Falepeau; Unitec graduate/lecturer Alan Parr in action.

Research Symposium Research is a vital component of the academic life at Unitec, and the annual Research Symposium provides an opportunity for staff and students to network and learn about the research happening at Unitec, as well as compete for the Research with Impact prize (staff) and the Three Minute Thesis Competition (students). The range of projects is vast, with topics from a variety of disciplines across the campuses. This year’s symposium included an army of topics, from judging bias in laying hens and the impact of mega events on construction planning, to Arabic-speaking students’ language needs and measuring the cardiorespiratory system efficiency in trained rowers.

“It’s important that researchers from the different disciplines at Unitec are able to connect with each other, making useful relationships for possible future research, but also to see that they are not alone, that

their work is part of a greater whole, adding up to a wide variety of important and useful research taking place across out campuses,” says Simon Peel, Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies.

aspirations and success of the local hapū. In 2012, Unitec offered four Māori Carpentry Scholarships for Ngāti Whātua o Orakei descendants and provided five places on Unitec’s STEP UP programme, which provides senior secondary students with revision and preparation for their external NCEA exams and some Cambridge International Examinations.

is relevant to the future development of the hapū, was awarded for the first time in 2012. The inaugural recipient, Ngaire Hotu, is studying for a Bachelor of Nursing – which is an area of high priority for the hapū, which owns and runs four health clinics.

Scholarships, awards and grants Unitec offers more than 100 scholarships, awards and grants to help students get the most out of their study. These awards cover all programmes of study from foundation education study awards to postgraduate scholarships, and from book vouchers to the payment of tuition fees. Ngāti Whātua o Orakei scholarships Unitec has worked closely with Ngāti Whātua o Orakei for a number of years to develop educational initiatives that support the 36

A new Tu Ake scholarship, to assist a student enrolled in a Unitec degree programme that

Unitec offers more than 100 scholarships, awards and grants to help students get the most out of their study.

Fast and furious filmmaking In one hectic weekend in May each year, over 800 teams of filmmakers from across New Zealand participate in the V48 Hours filmmaking competition. Entrants are given a prop and must create a short film in 48 hours. As a silver sponsor, we offer one entrant a Unitec Study Award scholarship to the oneyear Graduate Diploma in Creative Practice majoring in either directing, screenwriting or art direction. Entrants are also eligible to attend three free filmmaking workshops hosted at Unitec. In 2012, the calibre of those involved was high, with the finalists being judged by international experts including Hollywood actor Elijah Wood. Director Sir Peter Jackson also picked a wild-card entry for inclusion in the grand final.

Working alongside industry organisations such as the New Zealand Film Commission, Wingnut Films, Rialto Cinemas and postproduction companies, Unitec is able to support filmmaking at a grass roots level.

800

number of teams of filmmakers competing in V48 hours

Unitec students have featured strongly in the finals, being part of the winning teams in 2010 and 2011 and National Grand Finalists in 2012. The 2010 winner, Yamin Tun, had the film she made during her year of study accepted to be shown at the 2012 Auckland International Film Festival, while 2011 winner Alan Parr, who teaches part-time at Unitec, has been selected twice by Peter Jackson as the wild-card entry.

For the past two years students and staff from the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China have taken part. Hosted by Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Performing and Screen Arts Department, the 2012 Shanghai students were placed in two teams and finished second and third respectively in the Audience Vote in heat one of the Auckland City finals. UNITEC ANNUAL REPORT 2012

400 Number of jobs that could be created over the next TWO years through the IBM NEW Zealand Delivery Centre

Through partnerships we find out what our community and industry need.

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Partnership Partnerships with other organisations help us to achieve our strategic goals. Through partnerships we find out what our community and industry need, help build capability, create opportunities for our students, access new and innovative ways of teaching and ensure we operate in an efficient, effective and sustainable way. Over 2012, Unitec has continued to develop a wide range of industry partnerships. From our local business community to national and global organisations and overseas tertiary partners, 2012 has seen some exciting developments. The most significant partnership that has come to fruition over 2012 is the signing of a joint venture with leading business and technology solutions provider IBM. This initiative will see the opening of IBM’s only New Zealand-based Delivery Centre at our Mt Albert campus in February 2013, providing students with part-time work, access to scholarships, internships, graduate hire programmes and Earn As You Learn degrees. This collaboration provides a template for new and innovative ways tertiary organisations can work with industry. In 2010-11 we focused on effective stakeholder and community engagement initiatives across all faculties and departments. Departments have reported on how they have identified their industry and community stakeholders and what engagement strategies they have put in place. In 2012, we developed a suite of tools to support this work and built internal capability with the appointment of a Manager Partnerships and Community Engagement. We are continuing to implement the Unitec Engagement Strategy including creating a Health and Social Care Workforce Forum for west Auckland, partnering with Rotary International for Walk for Water and working alongside Manukau Institute of Technology and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa to identify emerging gaps in vocational tertiary provision in Auckland.

We have worked in partnership with USU – Unitec’s Student Association throughout 2012. USU has provided social activities for our students, student-to-student communication, student media including the student magazine, Script, and been the gateway for us as an organisation to communicate with students. While we have sponsored the Westpac Auckland West Business Awards for a number of years, this year we also became a supporter of the Westpac Auckland North Business Awards. As part of our commitment to these business regions, Unitec staff provided coaching to entrants including how to put their application together. Ten out of the 19 winners were coached by Unitec. In the west, we sponsored the workplace development category. Award winners of each category receive a $2000 study grant to go towards staff education. For the first time, in 2012, we sponsored an award at the Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards for the Best Medium-Sized Business. Over the year, we had the official launch of a joint venture with the Rosebank Business Association, Tēpu, which will provide work-based learning opportunities for students, develop potential projects and undertake research. We signed an MOU with Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) that aims to deliver more and better work-ready, high-tech workers to New Zealand manufacturing and service industries. This collaboration will give IRL access to the skills and capability existing within Unitec, but also provide Unitec students with real-word experience on industry projects and deliver work-ready graduates to industry. We have signed three MOUs with Indian training organisations, expanding our business in this region, and joined with Japan’s NICT to establish New Zealand’s first Cyber Security Research Centre.

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IBM partnership

This page: Chief Executive, Rick Ede, Prime Minister. John Key, IBM NZ Managing Director, Jennifer Moxon at the launch; Inside the new Delivery Centre; First batch of students recruited to work with Westpac. Opposite page: Prime Minister John Key officially opening the Delivery Centre.

In August, Unitec announced that IBM’s first New Zealand Delivery Centre would be based at its Mt Albert campus. The Delivery Centre will open in February 2013 and employ up to 400 full and part-time professionals, Unitec graduates and current students over the next two years. The Delivery Centre is based on IBM’s successful model at the Ballarat University Delivery Centre in Australia. The Delivery Centre has been formed through a new style of collaboration between industry and education in New Zealand, aligning talent, technology infrastructure and business opportunities. IBM has a long history of collaborating with the tertiary sector to develop graduates with the right skills to work in today’s services-oriented economy. This agreement with IBM will enable annual scholarship programmes, internships, graduate hire programmes and extended industry-based Earn As You Learn placements. It will also provide students studying at Unitec with relevant, paid work experience with IBM. Working with a highly respected global company such as IBM will give our students the head start they need to get a great job when they graduate. Bringing innovative businesses such as IBM into the education environment is about matching the skills of our students with the demands of business and providing students with the experience they need to make a difference in their communities and in New Zealand. 40

IBM will give our students the head start they need to get a great job when they graduate.

Unitec staff will benefit from new development opportunities through jointly developed guest lectures and mentoring with IBM staff, bringing real-time experience of current technology and business services industries to the classroom. The Delivery Centre will increase Auckland’s capacity to service local and international businesses with high-value skills by providing a range of advanced technology and business

process services. This means New Zealand organisations will now have another strategic option for outsourcing business processes to enable them to compete internationally. This initiative aligns very closely with Unitec’s aspirations, purpose and strategy, and redefines how a tertiary institution can work with industry to achieve both significant graduate employment outcomes and also make a significant contribution to economic growth and productivity. The model characterises Unitec’s work-integrated learning approach and will enhance its relevance to prospective students and their families. IBM has signed its first client. Westpac New Zealand will be the anchor client of the Delivery Centre. Unitec students will be providing Java programming, testing, integration and data management services for them.

Jennifer Moxon Managing Director, IBM New Zealand

"Generating economic growth is a collective responsibility. It requires bold thinking and new skills, unexpected partnerships and smart industry collaboration. In August 2012, IBM and Unitec Institute of Technology joined together to establish the first IBM New Zealand Delivery Centre based at Unitec’s Mt Albert campus. We see this as an example of the collaboration between business and educational institutions needed to develop graduates with the right skills to work in today’s digital services-oriented economy. "This New Zealand Delivery Centre is now one of more than 50 delivery centres that IBM runs across five continents, and represents a multimillion dollar investment in New Zealand. To be formally opened in February 2013 by the Prime Minister, the Delivery Centre will give students valuable IT industry experience as they study, and job opportunities when they graduate.

"Earn-As-You-Learn placements, guest lectures, mentoring and internship are all elements of a programme to match skills and learning with industry demand. In tandem, students and experienced IBM developers and managers will provide our clients with flexible, long-term access to specialised services in areas spanning human resources, supply chain management, finance and administration, customer relationship management, technology support and consulting. "It is this type of collaboration – a combination of established leading information technology practices and practical learning – that can deliver profound results in terms of skills development, business productivity and innovation. This partnership is also about job creation – and we fully expect to create 400 high-value jobs over the next two years, servicing IBM’s local and global client base. "IBM might be the world’s largest private research company, but no one has a monopoly on smart ideas and innovation. In partnering with Unitec, we are excited to get closer to the people shaping tomorrow’s world – thinkers and innovators who will provide the creativity so crucial to our business community and New Zealand’s future prosperity."

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Unitec Computing Lecturer Mahsa Mohaghegh was the winner of the 2012 Google Anita Borg Scholarship for postgraduate students in New Zealand and Australia, the first time a New Zealand entrant has won the prestigious award. She firmly believes that getting more women into computing is about giving them an insight into what computer science and computer engineering are really about. When she arrived back in New Zealand after winning the scholarship and spending time at Google headquarters, Mahsa says she was motivated to do something more to encourage women in the field, and has since applied for funding from Google to run workshops for teachers in technology to be held at Unitec.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a whole realm of creativity involved; computing is not just about sitting in front of a screen programming all day. For any women who have a passion for computer science, I really recommend they apply for the scholarship. It is a really prestigious award, and it is there for us.â&#x20AC;? Mahsa Mohaghegh Unitec Lecturer

Meet Mahsa

India business development Unitec recognised that there was an opportunity to work with organisations in India to build capability in delivering workintegrated vocational training.

Unitec has been looking at developing a number of joint ventures with educational providers in India. India’s accelerated economic growth and increasing demand for skilled manpower will require intensive efforts if they are to achieve the target of upskilling 500 million workers by 2022. Recent estimates have only 10% of the total workforce (459 million) in the country receiving some kind of skills training (2% with formal training and 8% with informal training). The unorganised sector is not supported by any structured skill development and training system to acquire or upgrade skills. Unitec recognised that there was an opportunity to work with organisations in India to build capability in delivering work-integrated vocational training. Chief Executive Dr Rick Ede made two trips to India in 2012, including one as part of a Ministerial delegation. As a result of these visits we formed a number of strategic alliances. In September we signed an MOU with Whispering Woods, Asia’s largest film school. Based in Film City, Mumbai, Whispering Woods was founded by one of India’s leading filmmakers and is Asia’s largest film, television, animation and media arts institute.

We also signed a two-year MOU with Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) based in Mumbai.

10,000 number of employees CMC has

WeSchool is an autonomous institute that also offers distance learning programmes. With campuses in Bangalore and Mumbai, they take a ‘design thinking’ approach towards education, where the emphasis is on creativity and innovation. Students largely design their own curriculum and learning is real-world project based. They have around

500

number of workers India wants to upskill by 2022

From left to right: Unitec construction student; CEO of CMC Mr Ramanan and Chief Executive, Rick Ede after signing MOU witnessed by Minister Steven Joyce.

CMC Academy

Mr Ramanan, CEO and Managing Director

"CMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Education and Training business unit wants to bridge the skills gap between industry needs and training currently available in India. Our focus is to create specific job-enabling training programmes through CMC Academy and proactively assist students to find jobs when they finish. 2000 students with 100 permanent and 400 visiting staff, most of whom have an industry background. The MOU will look at collaborative initiatives such as reciprocal study tours, promoting student exchange programmes, opportunities for joint research studies, joint development of sustainable technologies, internships and work experience. These initiatives are about developing educational partnerships. In October, we formed an alliance with CMC Limited to offer vocational education and training from CMC Academy centres in India. CMC is a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Asiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest software company. Operating out of 18 offices and 180 service locations in the country, CMC

employs over 10,000 people and is a wellregarded established education and training provider in India. CMC Academy currently offers Job Enablement Training in information technology, accounting and finance and several skill areas through 250-plus training locations across India. CMC Academy and Unitec will work together to provide training programmes to address the skills gap. The MOU, which was signed in Mumbai by Mr Ramanan Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CMC and Dr Ede Chief Executive of Unitec, was witnessed by Hon Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment.

"Our alliance with Unitec will help us offer world-class vocational training courses that will accelerate vocational training and job placements in India. CMC Academy and Unitec will provide training programmes to address the skill gaps while students will get worldclass training that is adapted to the Indian market and industry needs. CMC and Unitec will launch vocational training for one ICT course and one non-ICT course in early 2013. This will then be expanded to other training centres. Partnerships will be set up with relevant industries to offer jobs to students who complete these courses. "This is a great opportunity for the partnership between CMC and Unitec to grow and we look forward to a successful pilot and the launch of co-branded vocational training courses across the whole CMC Academy network of training centres in India in 2013." UNITEC ANNUAL REPORT 2012

Run Walk/adidas Auckland Marathon The sponsorship of the Unitec Run Walk series and adidas Auckland Marathon has enabled Unitec to raise its profile by supporting a community activity that fosters healthy lifestyles and students contributing positively to society. By providing post-race sport recovery treatment, the Departments of Osteopathy and Sport demonstrated active marketing and student engagement. Additionally, it helps develop long-term relationships with participants and key stakeholders from the first event right through to the adidas Auckland Marathon. Significant growth and development has occurred over the two years of the partnership, increasing engagement with staff, students and community, and resulting in some key achievements in 2012. Event one of the Run Walk series was held on Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mt Albert campus, with over 200 runners participating. Clinic 41 services were promoted by 40 osteopathy students treating approximately 350 participants at the adidas Auckland Marathon, creating 30 referrals that each had six sessions at the osteopathy clinic. The Human Performance Lab added 50 additional people to the database and provided 10 follow-up assessments.

Human interest stories raised awareness of the Run Walk events. Mike Mcleod (Unitec osteopathy student and Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Trust Scholar) developed a health initiative for inactive men, which included 10 inactive males who participated in training sessions and took part in some of the Run Walk events. His story attracted radio coverage. Ngaroimata Reid, who used the Human Performance Lab to help her train for the New York Marathon, was an ambassador for the Unitec Run Walk series and appeared in newspapers and on MÄ ori Television. Both the Sport and Osteopathy Departments had research articles published on the adidas Auckland Marathon website.

A social media campaign developed brand association and engagement with the adidas Auckland Marathon and promoted sport and osteopathy, with six posts over eight weeks before the marathon. An average of 2000 people were reached with each post, along with 200 views of the staff video and 2400 clicks on the marathon day photos. An internal staff pedometer challenge showcasing osteopathy and sports services/skills resulted in 80 staff participating and prompted Unitec to host a Running Masterclass Event for the community with ultra marathon runner Lisa Tamati and Ngaroimata Reid as the motivational speakers.

This page: Mystics in action; Blues fans taken by one of the ’FanCam’ photography students. Opposite page: Participants starting the Run Walk series.

Sponsorships – Blues, Auckland Rugby, Mystics, V48 Hours and Outlook for Someday Unitec was proud to be associated with a range of sponsorship properties including the Run Walk series, adidas Auckland Marathon, Blues (Super 15), Auckland Rugby (ITM Cup), Mystics (ANZ Netball Championship), V48 Film Festival and the Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge. The association with the Blues, Auckland Rugby and Mystics not only develops brand awareness and visibility but also fosters education and research opportunities for students by creating valuable internships/ involvement with these professional sporting organisations. Five Unitec photography students from design and visual arts took part in the Unitec

‘FanCam’ initiative, capturing the excitement of the Blues’ home games to share with fans. The initiative helped the students practise their event photo-journalism skills and build a portfolio of work while they studied. The students’ photos were posted regularly on the Blues’ official Facebook page and shared online with the franchise’s loyal fan base. Fans actively tag themselves and their friends, liking, sharing or commenting on the students’ photos at a rapidly growing rate. Unitec and the Department of Performing and Screen Arts were proud to be the Tertiary Partner for the Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people in 2012.

There were 191 entries to the film challenge, involving 700 participants. Talented youngsters from the age of seven to 24 from all over New Zealand were able to use their creative ideas and technical knowledge to raise awareness about subjects ranging from climate change and recycling to the sustainability of language and culture. Unitec hosted workshops sharing values of sustainability and social responsibility as well as developing students' skills and experience during the filmmaking process. Unitec was well represented at the Outlook for Someday Awards, with alumni Liesha Ward Knox MCing the event and Kiel McNaughton giving the closing speech.

Partnerships – Massey High School Trades Academy The first year of the new West Auckland Vocational Academy (part of the Government’s Trades Academy programme) saw 88 students enrolled through Massey High School, with 14 of those students taking carpentry and 22 taking electrotechnology through Unitec. The collaboration between Unitec and the west Auckland high school allows students to learn more practical subjects with Unitec tutors while still studying for NCEA through Massey High School. According to Massey High School’s principal Bruce Ritchie, Academy students will likely be young people who are not enjoying, and

consequently not achieving in, traditional school courses. “They do, however, have the potential to engage, focus and work hard in a modified school environment,” he says. “The enthusiasm and excitement that this project has created among our students has been fabulous. We couldn’t have wished for a better start.” The carpentry students built a house at the Massey High School campus, in an experience similar to full-time carpentry students enrolled at Unitec, says Carol Ngawati, Director Māori Student and Community at Unitec. “It’s not a one-size-fits-all process.

It’s about trying to meet the needs of our community.” Offering the students an alternative to the standard school experience has kept them interested and engaged with learning. “For some of these kids, this is a second chance,” says Ngawati. “Their families love this programme because they know these kids are going somewhere, that they have a purpose.” Of those students who participated in the 2012 carpentry course through Massey High School, 12 applied to go to Unitec and two have apprenticeships. UNITEC ANNUAL REPORT 2012

Contents Statement of Service Performance

Financial Statements

Introduction

Statement of Responsibility

Statement of Service Performance Part A

Independent Auditor's report

Statement of Service Performance Part B

Statement of Comprehensive Income

Governance Report

Council functions and duties

Accountability and communication

Council structure and membership

Council and committee attendance

Appendices 132

Council and committee fees

Students 134

Council register of interests

Staff 136

Investing in our staff

Student services fee

Key staff statistics

Statement of Financial Position

Statement of Changes in Equity

Statement of Cash Flows

Notes to the Financial Statements

Statement of Service Performance for the year ended 31 December 2012

Introduction Tertiary Education Sector Performance Framework and Relationship to Unitec’s Statement of Service Performance Tertiary Education Strategy (Describes sector priorities)

Unitec Investment Plan

(Describes how Unitec will contribute to sector goals within allocated resources)

Unitec Institute of Technology Statement of Service Performance (Describes how we performed against our Investment Plan goals)

Inputs SECTOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Economy

What funding and resources do we have and use?

The purpose of this Statement of Service Performance is for users of the Unitec Institute of Technology Annual Report to understand how we perform against non-financial performance targets alongside performance as measured by the financial statements. Without both financial and nonfinancial performance being measured, users would struggle to get a good understanding of Unitec’s achievements and areas of improvement. Unitec measures its performance against a range of non-financial targets and measures. These are selected to reflect appropriate measures against the benefits (outputs and outcomes), resource allocations (inputs) and quality dimensions. Unitec is part of a larger tertiary education sector. As such, we work within the framework of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2010 – 2015, which sets outcome targets for the sector as a whole, including contribution to the economic and social wellbeing of New Zealand and the employment and education aspirations of New Zealanders. Unitec has a current Investment Plan that includes performance targets that have been agreed with the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to reflect how Unitec can contribute toward the outcomes contained in the Tertiary Education Strategy. These include targets toward: »» people progressing to higher levels of education »» people progressing to employment »» values added to industry and society

Outputs What activities are we undertaking? Primarily Education Services

Impacts are we making?

Outcomes What does the sector achieve for New Zealanders?

»» more engaged communities and »» enhanced environmental sustainability. Performances against these targets are best measured by the mandatory Education Performance Indicators (EPIs). Unfortunately, EPIs are trailing measures, often available well after a year end, and therefore other measures have been included to provide some lead indication of this performance. They do have the advantage of comparability across the tertiary education sector. Non-financial performance targets for this report, as can be measured using Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP), are included in the Unitec Investment Plan 2011 – 2013. These reflect the outputs and education service delivery performance that are expected of Unitec, by both Unitec Council and the TEC. The measures selected attempt to provide a balanced understanding of performance around dimensions such as education service quality, quantity, timeliness, achievement, and the alignment to our communities and the aspirations and needs of those communities. Measures used in the Statement of Service Performance are often annual measures reflecting more regular measurement used by management on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Part A This part of the Statement of Service Performance includes all measures from the Unitec Investment Plan for 2011 to 2013.

A1: Meeting the needs of our communities A1.1: Impacts Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 Target

2011 Actual

People progress to employment

Graduate Survey: Response rate

Yes

51%

45%

35%

Value added to industry and society

External research and tech1 transfer income ($000)

$478

$1,651

$3462

Value added to industry and society

Target groups participation: student achievement component (SAC) funded equivalent full-time student (EFTS)

8,481

9,044

8,3053

Value added to industry and society

Target groups participation: Youth Guarantee EFTS

128

160

145

Value added to industry and society

Target groups participation: % of SAC EFTS who are Māori

Yes

11%

Value added to industry and society

Target groups participation: % of SAC EFTS who are Pacific peoples

Yes

17%

13%

15%

Value added to industry and society

Target groups participation: % of SAC EFTS who are under 25

57%

NA4

57%3

Value added to industry and society

Proportion of academic portfolio >= level 4

Yes

86%

80%

84%3

More engaged communities

Carnegie Community Engagement Classification: Undertake improvement plan to enable participation in 2015 assessment

Yes

Completed

Undertake improvement plan

NA5

More engaged communities

Community relationships: Develop Auckland Vocational Sector Strategic Industry Engagement Forum with Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA)

Not completed

Develop forum

NA5

More engaged communities

Community relationships: Implement Unitec engagement strategy

Not completed

Implement strategy

NA5

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Number of environmental sustainability events hosted

Yes

NA5

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Percentage of staff who consider Unitec environmentally responsible

Yes

68%

62%

58%

1. Unitec created income from external research and technology knowledge transfer. From 2012, the definition of this measure has been changed and it excludes the income from building projects. The 2011 figure has been adjusted based on this definition. 2. Figure differs from 2011 Annual Report due to change in definition of this measure. 3. Figure differs from 2011 Annual Report due to data corrections. 4. This measure was approved as a performance indicator outside of the 2011 to 2013 Investment Plan and hence no target was set. 5. This is a new performance indicator and figures are only available for the current year.

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Unitec has carried out a survey of graduates every year since 1994. The main focus of the survey is to provide a profile of recent graduates and to explore their employment situation in the months after they received their Unitec qualification. Targets have been set for the response rate of this survey in a drive to improve the reliability of survey estimates. The 2012 Graduate Survey achieved a response rate of 51%, which was 16 percentage points higher than the 2011 survey and met the target set for 2012.

In 2012, a total of 8,481 equivalent full-time students (EFTS) at Unitec were funded by the TEC’s student achievement component (SAC) funding. This figure excludes those funded under the Youth Guarantee Scheme. The 2012 total was 176 EFTS higher than in 2011 and 563 EFTS (6%) below the investment plan EFTS target for 2012. However, in late 2011, Unitec negotiated with TEC through the Mix of Provisions (MOP) process, a revised SAC EFTS target of 8,549 for 2012. The 2012 SAC EFTS was 1% short of the revised target. The number of students receiving education has decreased in 2012, possibly reflecting an improving job market.

51% 35% 33% 21%

22%

Graduate survey response rate for the past five years

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 External research and technology knowledge transfer income has fallen short of target by 71%, however, this is due to a redefinition of items to be included in this category this year. Using the previous definition, Unitec would have achieved the target by 1% ($1,676,000). The 2012 figure represents a 38% increase on the 2011 adjusted figure. Unitec continues to develop its research capability and industry recognition for applied research. The appointment of Business Development Managers to each faculty in 2011 has assisted in ensuring there is an ongoing awareness of this role for Unitec. However, they are operating in a difficult business environment in which to achieve higher levels of external research income. Unitec continues to participate in the development of a framework for applied technology research, development and technology transfer to industry for Auckland.

A total of 128 EFTS were funded under the Youth Guarantee Scheme in 2012, a decrease of 1.2% on the 2011 figure. The 2012 result was 80% of target. The number of SAC-funded Māori EFTS at Unitec in 2012 was 4% higher than in 2011. At 11% of all SAC-funded EFTS, the participation rate of Māori students was the same as 2011. Over the same period, the number of SAC- funded students identifying with a Pacific ethnic group increased by 14%. This increase led to a 17% participation rate for Pacific students in 2012, exceeding the target by four percentage points. The above figures match well with the population mix for Māori (11%) and Pacific (15%) in the Auckland region. The proportion of EFTS studying formal programmes at level 4 and above rose from 84% to 86% between 2011 and 2012. This was driven primarily by a fall in the number of EFTS studying at level 2 and a significant increase in the number studying at level 4. Through its mission and via institutional and academic strategies Unitec clearly articulates the importance of effective stakeholder and community engagement. Community/stakeholder engagement is the mechanism by which external stakeholders influence and inform programme development, content and delivery. In December 2010, an Academic Board audit of stakeholder and community engagement at department and programme level was received. In 2011, the Annual Programme Reports included selfassessment on the identification of the industry/community stakeholders for each programme and the means by which stakeholders are engaged in ensuring programme relevance. These reports were provided to faculty academic committees, and received by the Unitec Academic Board, identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement. In 2012, Unitec developed a suite of tools to support collaborative work and resources capability building through the appointment of a Manager Partnerships and Community Engagement. The Unitec Academic Board received summary reports from faculty deans regarding progress on improvement plans. This will be further developed and completed in 2013.

The Auckland Vocational Sector Strategic Industry Engagement Forum with Manukau Institute of Technology and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa has not proceeded in the format originally planned. Unitec had collaborated with Manukau Institute of Techology (MIT) and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA) to identify emerging gaps in vocational tertiary provision in the Auckland sub-regions. The product of this collaboration A Strategy for Auckland Tertiary Education Provision (2010) has since guided a cooperative approach to matching programmes and qualifications to the needs of communities at a sub-regional level. Collaborative work between the Auckland tertiary organisations is now being coordinated through the Auckland Tertiary Education Network, which includes in its membership Auckland University of Technology, Massey University, Manukau Institute of Technology, Unitec Institute of Technology and the University of Auckland. The network, supported by Auckland Council, seeks to improve the linking between industry and education provision through a range of work programmes. In 2012, Unitec Institute of Technology and Manukau Institute of Technology completed a scoping project to identify opportunities for collaboration, academic and shared services provision. A framework for assessing opportunities was approved and will be advanced in 2013. The Unitec Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and supporting Stakeholder Plan were reconfirmed in the Unitec Investment Plan 2013 – 2015. The Unitec Stakeholder Engagement Strategy continues to be implemented with the outcomes of engagement being mapped against the Craig and Courtney (2004) Potential of Partnerships Continuum. Since 2010, Unitec has used Annual Programme Reporting to assess and inform the contribution of external engagement to programme development. Work on this strategy is ongoing. Examples of more recent developments include the development of a Health and Social Care Workforce Forum for West Auckland, partnership with Rotary International for the Walk for Water event and the West Auckland Vocational Academy with Massey High School. In 2012, Unitec held multiple events for students and staff showcasing sustainability and various approaches to it across the three campuses. Staff and students both became more aware of Unitec’s commitment to sustainability, with surveys showing that 68% of staff and 67% students see Unitec as environmentally responsible. At the end of year staff awards, the sustainability team won the Chief Executive’s Award in recognition of the hard work the team has put in over the past year.

A1.2: Outputs Components

Key indicators

Achieved 2012 Actual

2012 Target

Vocational education that meets the needs of students/ employers

Employer Satisfaction: Develop and run the initial survey

No Not completed

Vocational education that meets the needs of students/ employers

Employer Satisfaction: Improvement programme and targets for 2012 and 2013 based off 2011 baseline

Undertake NA Not completed6 improvement plans and set targets for 2013

Vocational education that meets the needs of students/ employers

Relevance of qualification to graduate employment7

No 74%

2011 Actual

Undertake survey

>75%

NA5

73%

While Unitec started working with other institutes in 2011, this project did not come to fruition in 2012 and was disestablished as a work stream. This is now seen as being a broader initiative than purely an Employer Satisfaction Survey and Unitec is looking to develop the survey to have a wider scope and increased relevance to the economy and measure Unitec’s place within that economy. Unitec has commenced scoping and benchmarking work that will be built on in 2013. This is now a part of Unitec’s ‘highly productive talent’ project and this information will be gathered throughout 2013 for this strategic objective. Unitec is also participating in national measurement planning in this area. The percentage of graduates moving into jobs related to their qualification was one percentage point more than the 2011 figure, reflecting slight changes in the labour market situation.

6. As a result of not completing the employer satisfaction survey, this performance indicator has no figures available. 7. Proportion of respondents gaining employment who ranked their qualification as ‘highly’ or ‘moderately’ relevant to gaining employment.

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A2: Enhancing the student experience

A1.3: Processes Components

Key indicators

Engagement with industry and communities

Redevelopment of programme external advisory bodies off 2010 baseline

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 Target

2011 Actual

>90%

100%

33%

All programmes have advisory mechanisms for engaging with external stakeholders but as yet not all are acceptably robust. Strengthening of engagement within Medical Imaging, Language Studies, Automotive Engineering and Marine will be priorities in 2013. Further, the Unitec Strategic Framework has been launched with a philosophy of creating Highly Productive Talent. This refers to talent in our staff, students and industry, and requires cross-cutting actions to increase innovation, a shift from transactional to collaborative relationships. An ecosystem approach to engagement will be adopted. This will involve Unitec disciplines working with clusters of stakeholders that include professional and employer bodies, individual employers and practitioners, graduates and communities, and other providers.

A2.1: Impacts Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Estimate

2012 Target

2011 Actual

People progress to higher levels of learning

Progression: L1-3 for all SAC-funded students

38% – 42%8

>60%

38%9

People progress to higher levels of learning

Progression: L1-3 for SACfunded Māori students

52% – 53%8

>60%

52%9

People progress to higher levels of learning

Progression: L1-3 for SACfunded Pacific students

45% – 53%8

>60%

45%9

People progress to higher levels of learning

Progression: L1-3 for SAC-funded students who are under 25

52% – 53%8

>60%

52%9

Student progression and successful course completion for SAC-funded students are measured by TEC, using information supplied by Unitec and other tertiary education institutions, as two of four EPIs. The student progression relates to the student outcome across all study not just at one institution. The final indicators for 2012 will be available in mid-2013. The 2012 figures for student progression are an estimate based on the 2011 outcome and historical data, which Unitec considers the best available estimate for 2012, after considering the current environment. Preliminary information available internally to Unitec will be combined with other information available to the TEC to produce the final measure. For SAC-funded students, the rate of progression in 2011 declined significantly, due to a 50% increase in student qualification levels completed, while the number of student qualification levels progressed only increased by 8%. This increase in qualification levels completed was the result of Unitec systematically improving the business processes relating to this measure, which resulted in a step-change improvement in 2011 actual results. A similar trend is exhibited across the target groups.

8. Figures for 2012 are preliminary estimates and subject to change. 9. Figure differs from 2011 Annual Report, which reported an estimated figure for 2011.

Thirty-eight percent of SAC-funded Unitec students completing qualifications at levels 1 to 3 progressed to a higher level programme at a New Zealand tertiary education organisation in 2011.This rate was lower than 2010 by 10 percentage points. The progression decline was driven by a 50% increase in student qualification levels completed, while the number of student qualification levels progressed only increased by 7%. Māori and Pacific students, and students under 25 years all experienced declines in their progression rates between 2010 and 2011. Level 1 programmes at Unitec are for students with special needs and are specifically designed to help people move into the workforce.

A2.2: Outputs Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 Target

2011 Actual

Student achievement

Successful course completion rate for all SAC-funded students

Yes

79%8

77%

79%9

Student achievement

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded Māori students

Yes

74%8

72%

73%9

Student achievement

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded Pacific students

Yes

68%8

66%

66%9

Student achievement

Successful course completion rate for SAC-funded students who are under 25

76%8

NA4

76%9

Graduate willingness to recommend10 Unitec to others

Yes

Vocational education that meets the needs of students/ employers

The measure for successful course completion is an estimate pending release of the final Education Performance Indicators by TEC in mid-2013. The 2012 figure for successful course completion is based on preliminary information available internally to Unitec. This will be combined with other information available to the TEC to produce the final measure, however, in this case, the internal available information is considered the best estimate available at this time. Rates of successful course completion by SAC-funded students in 2012 showed little change from the previous year for SAC-funded Māori and Pacific students. Unitec rates of successful course completion for all SAC-funded students closely matched the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) median rates across all programme levels. The willingness of graduates to recommend Unitec to others remained at the same high level as in 2011. At least nine out of every 10 respondents in the annual graduate survey reported that they would definitely or possibly recommend Unitec to others as a place to study.

A2.3: Processes

93%

>90%

93%

Components Key indicators

Student support

Student Satisfaction11 Survey: Overall satisfaction with student support services and facilities from the biennial student satisfaction survey

Achieved

2012 Actual

72%

2012 2011 Target Actual >75%

NA12

A Student Satisfaction Survey was run on behalf of Unitec in 2012 by USU, the Students’ Association at Unitec. The survey captures information on students’ satisfaction with specified services and facilities at Unitec. When asked to rate overall satisfaction with their experience at Unitec, 72% of students gave a ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ response in 2012. Satisfaction of priority learner groups (Māori and Pacific) was higher than for all students. The number of students who indicated they would recommend Unitec to others increased from 68% in 2010 to 75% in 2012.

10. Proportion of graduates who will ‘definitely’ or ‘possibly’ recommend Unitec to others. 11. Proportion of students who are ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’. 12. This survey was not run in 2011. It is run biennially.

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A3: Innovation in teaching and learning A3.1: Outputs Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

Enhanced environmental sustainability Enhanced environmental sustainability

2012 2011 Target Actual

Percentage of programmes with sustainability content

Yes

15%

NA5

Number of sustainable research outputs

Yes

218

>=3

NA5

Vocational education that meets the needs of students/ employers

Student Engagement: Undertake biennial AUSSE survey

Yes Completed Undertake survey

Applied research and knowledge transfer

Quality-assured research outputs (using 2010 figure as baseline)

Yes

3858

380

Out of all the quality-assured research outputs in 2012, approximately 5% were environment sustainable related. The Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) survey was conducted in mid-August. A systematic random sample of 2,294 firstyear and 2,347 later-year on-shore students was drawn from the total population. One thousand and ten students responded in total, giving an overall response rate of 22%. The results released in December show Unitec improved on its 2010 scores on all scales of student engagement: workintegrated learning, supportive learning environment, enriching educational experiences, student and staff interactions, active learning and academic challenge. Overall student satisfaction also improved.

A3.2: Processes Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

Deliver high quality and relevant courses

Curriculum Redevelopment: Proportion of programmes redeveloped with Living Curriculum tick

55%

66%

29%

Deliver high quality and relevant courses

Programmes covered by annual programme reporting process: With results as input to evaluative questioning framework

Yes

100%

Deliver high quality and relevant courses

Rubric for measuring course quality through evaluation

NA13

NA4

NA5

Work- and practice-based learning

Proportion of Unitec programmes with embedded workbased learning practices

Yes

>90%

NA14

4529

Sustainability has been recognised as an essential part of the curriculum at Unitec. With this in mind, it has been added as a requirement of the Living Curriculum, and a goal of 15% of programmes with sustainability content was easily met this year, with 19 programmes officially recognised as now having this content.

13. Figure not available when this report was prepared. 14. This performance measure was suspended in 2011 and hence no data is available for 2011.

Research outputs are collected on a continuous basis throughout the year and are subject to verification by departmental research committees and reported to the Unitec Research Committee and Academic Board. Figures reported here for 2012 should be considered preliminary as figures were not finalised when this report was being prepared. The 2011 quality-assured research outputs increased dramatically over the previous year. This reflects both the nature of the six-yearly Performance Based Research Fund cycle (where 2011 was the final year of the cycle) and the fact that considerable emphasis has been placed on improving internal systems to capture and verify as much of Unitecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research activity as possible.

2012 2011 Target Actual

By the end of the year, 66 programmes (55%) had achieved the Living Curriculum tick. As was the case in 2011, the shortfall is in part caused by the 'New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) Targeted Review of Qualifications (TRoQs)', which is impacting on many programmes at levels 1 – 6. Electrotechnology and building technology programmes have been affected in particular. Further, a number of business programmes were given short-term extensions because of changes to strategy priorities in this area; several programmes in the foundation studies area were put on hold because of a major review, and several proposals were rejected at the end of the year and require rework. ‘Annual Programme Reporting’ has morphed into Programme Evaluation Reporting so that it is an ongoing process rather than a one-off annual event. This is still subject to close scrutiny by the Faculty Executive Dean but this might now be every three or 18 months, depending on the ability to respond to performance information and quality of engagement with stakeholders, the evaluative questioning and the action planning and execution. In 2011, we indicated that the institutional rubric for measuring course quality through evaluation will be replacing the measure related to Student Evaluation of Quality (SEQUAL). The institutional rubric is being used for the first time in 2012 for reporting course quality. Programmes will be reporting against the rubric in the process of their programme evaluation reporting, which takes place in March/April. Information at institutional level will be available following that process. The AUSSE survey includes a rating for work-integrated learning, which is based on student responses to questions on: blended academic learning with workplace experience; improved knowledge and skills that will contribute to employment; exploration of how to apply learning to the workplace; industry placement or work experience; acquiring job or work-related knowledge and skills. The 2012 results show a two-point improvement over the 2010 result, that is, from 50 to 52.

A4: Being an excellent business A4.1: Impacts Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 Target

2011 Actual

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Resource utilisation: Energy (MWh)

13.478

<12.58

13.42

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Resource utilisation: Water (m3)

Yes

83,5208

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Resource utilisation: Waste (tonnes)

385

<371.7

388

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Resource utilisation: Paper (tonnes)

Yes

114

<134

1409

Enhanced environmental sustainability

Biodiversity: Macroinvertebrate Community Index

69.8

NA4

NA5

<97,623 102,534

Over the past year more than 1,600 native plants were planted by Unitec staff and students, Waterview Primary School children and local community groups as the first stage of restoring the Wairaka Stream at Mt Albert campus. Greening our campus is seen as a priority by both Unitec students and staff. The introduction of: food scraps composting; staff mini bins; doublesided printing; replacing leaking water mains; establishing a sustainable arboretum; a bike rack design competition; worm farms at both on-site childcare centres; green building features within the wharekai and a carpooling service have all reinforced our commitment to sustainability on campus. The total waste generated by Unitec reduced by three tonnes in 2012. There was a significant reduction in waste generated by offices and classrooms, which was unfortunately offset by an increase in construction and demolition waste and the clearance of campus storage area. This will remain a key area of focus for 2013. A new system of weighing all bins at Mt Albert campus has now been introduced, which will mean much more accurate and comprehensive data on waste generation in 2013. Unitec now has a fully developed online Environmental Management System. This positions Unitec to seek ISO14001 certification in 2013, bringing Unitec into line with best international business practices and

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positioning the institution to work towards full sustainability reporting in the future. Accessible to all Unitec staff, students and our key stakeholders, the eco-portal online platform ensures that Unitec remains fully accountable for its commitments and encourages staff and student engagement.

The 2012 Unitec Staff Survey was conducted over the period 9 - 30 August 2012 and 886 staff members (79%) responded to the survey. This survey represents another stage in the continuing process of organisational development through employee feedback. The pattern of results from the 2012 survey is similar to that of the 2010 survey. However, scores have generally increased. Scores have also been compared (where possible) to the shorter Pulse Survey conducted in 2011; again scores have improved in most areas. Key strengths emerging from the 2012 survey include: overall engagement and job satisfaction; a strong sense of teamwork and staff’s clear understanding of how they contribute to the success of Unitec.

A4.2: Inputs – General Components

Key indicators

Staff engagement

Achieve second quartile versus benchmark staff engagement in Voice Project Survey

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 2011 Target Actual

Yes Completed Undertake survey

NA5

Overall the 2012 Survey indicates that 82% of our staff were satisfied with their job, compared with 77% in the 2010 full survey. The budgeted net surplus for 2012 was not achieved mainly due to over expenditure in labour, with unbudgeted redundancies and higher-thanbudgeted levels of staff numbers the major factor. This was due to the labour costs associated with the delivery of the strategic initiatives, unbudgeted

A4.3: Inputs – Financial performance indicators Components

Key indicators

Achieved

2012 Actual

2012 Target

2011 Actual