Tom Hullena is a former principal at

Makoura College Makoura College (spelled Makora College prior to 1990) is a state co-educational secondary school located in Masterton, New Zealand. The school opened in 1968 as the town's second state secondary school, alongside Wairarapa College. Serving Y ...

he worked at the college from 2009 to 2015. He also taught at

Kuranui College Kuranui College is a State school, state Mixed-sex education, co-educational secondary school for the South Wairarapa located in Greytown, New Zealand. The college opened in February 1960 to replace the four district high schools in Greytown, F ...

as a HOD physical Education. Tom Hullena received the MNZM for services to education in 2016.

Career

He worked mostly 70 hours a week or more over seven years while principal at Makoura. He has been an educator for more than three decades and now helps lead the development of Youth in Education, Training and Employment schemes for the Ministry of Education. He spent three years with Victoria University as a lecturer, researcher and teacher training adviser from 2005 to 2008. In 2014 he received the Prime Minister's Excellence Award for Leadership.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hullena, Tom Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit People educated at Wairarapa College Living people Year of birth missing (living people)