Our tutors are the heart of Toi Ohomai and whānaungatanga is part of everything we do here. As students of Toi Ohomai, you’ll feel a sense of family, of welcome.
Our friendly learning spaces and smaller class sizes will give you confidence as you gain new skills that will lead you into the future, and our tutors will be there for you every step of the way.
Your success is what we’re all about!
Karam Khokra has been working at Toi Ohomai/Waiariki since 2003 as a Senior Lecturer (IT). His areas of teaching are: Network operating systems, large network technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies and system and network security.
Karam previously worked in the IT industry in India and switched to teaching in 2001. He migrated… Read full profile
Te Kanapu Anasta has a passion for te reo and its revitalisation.
“This journey started with just my own te reo journey. I then had a young family and made a commitment to bring my tamariki up in a full immersion te reo Māori household. This drive and commitment of mine eventually grew into a pathway and career of te reo Māori… Read full profile
Brent has been teaching forest operations for more than 15 years, picking up a range of forestry certificates along the way, as well as certificates in adult teaching, management, and occupational health and safety.
"The forest industry has changed as it has become more mechanised and we’ve responded by setting up new mechanised… Read full profile
Robert teaches computing and IT courses at Toi Ohomai, skilled in Wide Area Network (WAN), Local Area Network (LAN), Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), Voice over IP (VoIP) and Network Management
His goal is to ensure graduates are prepared for a wealth of opportunities in the information technology sector once they leave Toi Ohomai.… Read full profile
Shelley teaches computing and IT courses at Toi Ohomai, specialising in software programming, with a particular focus on programming languages such as VB.Net, C#, Pascal, C, C++ and Delphi. She has also taught papers in the field of Robotics, Business Computing (Microsoft Office products) and Interface Analysis.
She has a Bachelor of… Read full profile
Murray teaches computing and IT at Toi Ohomai, particularly topics related to business structures and operations, human and computational systems interfacing, artificial intelligence for information acquisition and analysis.
He completed a Master of Computing at Unitec in 2008 and his current research activity is design and fabrication… Read full profile
Andrew teaches programming, web design and development, and project management. He also supervises student projects at level 6 and 7.
He has a Master of Education from Massey University and his teaching experience has spanned a range of educational settings and countries with primary, secondary and tertiary roles in New Zealand,… Read full profile
"I’m lucky to be able to teach in an area I’m very passionate about – music," says Toi Ohomai creative tutor, Ben Wilcock.
Ben holds a bachelor’s in Music and his work as a composer and performer has appeared on more than 30 albums.
He also co-founded Thick Records NZ and performed at a number of big music festivals around the… Read full profile
Kyle teaches visual arts, design and creative technologies at Toi Ohomai. He's a multimedia artist and musician with a Master of Visual Art from Wintec.
His recent work has focused primarily on sound and video as well as exploring the influence of rhythm and flow on the human experience.
He has a keen interest in alternative music… Read full profile
Dale is a creative arts tutor for the Bachelor of Creative Industries, with a particular focus on graphic design, from print based to screen-based outcomes.
Prior to joining the Toi Ohomai whānau, he spent three years working in the bustling city of London. The highlight of his career was working in the UK where he joined a global… Read full profile
