Fashion & Interior Design > Tutor Profiles

Maria Ingram-Read - Dip in Fashion Technology and Administration, Certificate in Adult Teaching.

After completing my Diploma, I travelled overseas to experience working in industry overseas in fashion house before returning to NZ to settle. I returned to work in industry full time and trained “in house” as a Production planner and GSD analyst responsible for 150 machinists for one of the top jean labels in New Zealand  

I have been with the Fashion programme at Waiariki since 2002.

March Crocker - Diploma in Fashion

March has worked with labels such as Expozay International and Pierre Cardin. Her teaching experience dots the globe: nearly two years at Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE (Australia) teaching the Diploma in Fashion; seven years teaching textiles in a high school in the United Kingdom; and eight years as the fashion department programme coordinator at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic.

Betty Bayley lecturer - Interior Design, at Waiariki 5+ years.

B.A., Dip I.D., Dip Ldrshp, Cert Adult Teaching
Member Interior Design Guild
Specialist in Feng Shui and Healthy, Happy Homes