Keynotes and Speakers for ITx 2018
Head of the School of IT, WelTec & Whitireia
Mary Proctor is the Head of the School of IT at WelTec and Whitireia. She has almost twenty years’ experience in the tertiary education sector, most recently as Head of Department of Arts, Media and Digital Technology at NMIT.
Mary Proctor has an excellent track record for leading and promoting Information Technology. She is the current Chair of Computing and Information Technology Research and Education New Zealand (CITRENZ), part of IT Professionals New Zealand, and the national representative body for IT delivery by Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).
The panel will discuss the postgraduate programmes at NZ polytechnics from two perspectives: domestic and international.
The discussion for both programmes for domestic and international students will include types of the programmes (PhDs, Masters, Postgraduate Certificates and Diplomas) and the research component in these programmes.
We will discuss what we are doing, how well we are doing, our challenges and where do we want to go from here.
In particular, the discussion will cover the needs of students both domestic and international and our challenges to meet them. From the international students’ perspective, the panel will discuss the educational, cultural and technological challenges that these students are faced with.
The research environment and the challenges for the academics involved in the postgraduate study, as well as a possibility to collaborate, will be discussed.