Witt, Taranaki's largest tertiary provider, made two applications for shovel-ready funding, but is still waiting for much-needed investment. But despite the apparent cold shoulder, the boss of the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki, or Witt, said he was confident the much-needed cash to fund campus upgrades would come. “I think there’s a massive, obvious opportunity staring the Crown in the face,” Witt chief executive John Snook said. Supplied/Stuff Witt chief executive John Snook remains optimistic the money will come to make the polytech bigger and better. Shaw, who initially backed the Green School project and helped it get the greenlight, had since publicly apologised, calling it an “error of judgement”.

Source: Stuff September 02, 2020 17:03 UTC