Unitec Institute Of Technology

Unitec Institute of Technology The main campus is situated in Mt Albert while a secondary Wait?kere campus is situated in Henderson and there are various pop-ups throughout the North Shore. It also offers programs overseas.

 

Unitec was founded as Carrington Technical Institute in 1976 on the Mt Albert site on Carrington road, which has 55 hectares of grounds. the realm on which Unitec's main campus is found was formerly home to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, later referred to as Carrington Hospital. The hospital building (Building 1) is an imposing brick Italianate-Romanesque structure, located at the northern end of the Unitec Campus. The hospital building was the most important in New Zealand when it had been inbuilt the 1860s. The hospital was decommissioned during the first 1990s, and also the building is now a part of Unitec.

 

The name changed to Carrington Polytechnic in 1987 then to "Unitec Institute of Technology" in 1994. Unitec applied for University status in 1999, but the govt ruled, somewhat controversially, in 2005 that Unitec didn't meet the educational criteria of a university and would remain an Institute of Technology.

 

Unitec made the news after revealing deficits totaling nearly $100 million over four years and prompting the Education Minister Chris Hipkins to think about interventions.