NEWS & EVENTS

An industry-sweeping whitepaper, released by Yoobee Colleges and UP Education, calls for urgent action to transform Aotearoa’s creative sector into an economic engine to drive New Zealand’s economic recovery and growth.

Oscar Featherstone, a 2011 graduate of Yoobee Colleges South Seas has been globally recognised for his editing work on the CNN investigative journalism story, Putin’s Private Army, winning a News & Documentary Emmy Award for his efforts.

The Yoobee Colleges 2021 Indigenous Legends Scholarship winner, Hakopa Ririnui, is on a mission to inspire younger generations of Māori into the creative industries.

Jazz studied at our South Seas campus and directed the multiaward winning documentary Jessica’s Tree, about the impact of a friend’s suicide. She has also co-founded the charity Voices of Hope, is the subject of a feature length documentary, The Girl on the Bridge and has written a book.

On Friday 6th November, Yoobee colleges took part in UP Colleges Australia and NZ Research/Scholarship Seminar Day.

Light & Dark is back! Over the last 7 years, budding artists across Aotearoa have entered into Yoobee's Light & Dark character design competition. Light & Dark focuses on the art of emotion. Contestants create a character that embodies two contrasting emotions; one light emotion, and one dark emotion.

On Friday 10 July Yoobee Colleges held their second annual research symposium.

Alex Bartlett's game, Petal to the Metal, won the Student Slice at the NZ Games Festival annual awards show called The Pavs.

Raised in an environment that encompasses his stories and histories, Turanga Mahutonga of Yoobee College Rotorua scored himself a fully paid scholarship by bringing these stories to life through the art of animation.