The Government has today revealed details around new graduate schools to be based in Auckland and Christchurch and specialising in information and communications technology.
Once a third school opens in Wellington, the institutes will train more than 350 students in the fast-growing field each year.
This morning, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce announced the school in our largest city would be hosted by Auckland University, with a collaboration with Waikato University providing satellite locations in Hamilton and Tauranga.
The South Island school - consisting of a campus in the Christchurch Innovation Precinct and a Dunedin satellite site - would be hosted by South Island Tertiary Alliance, comprised by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch Polytechnic and Institute of Technology, Lincoln University, Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago.
The schools will accept not only computer science graduates but students who have studied in non-ICT subjects who show strong critical thinking, communications or business planning skills.