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More learners seek futures through online skills training

Interest in online vocational education continues to increase with specialist distance and online learning provider, Open Polytechnic, a business division of Te Pūkenga, receiving over 11% more full-time student enrolments so far in 2024, compared with the same period last…

Open Polytechnic congratulates Dr Caroline Seelig on King’s New Year Honour

Open Polytechnic congratulates Dr Caroline Seelig who was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2024 King’s New Year Honours.

Cambridge family gets the wheels in motion for gluten-free food business

Sabine Lang’s new gluten-free food business in the Waikato, Lang’s Little Bakery, not only provides for her family’s dietary needs it’s also giving those in the wider community with gluten intolerances a chance to try a range of delectable baked…

Open Polytechnic celebrates new Principal Academic Staff Members  

Four Open Polytechnic Academic Staff Members, Dr Melissa McMinn (Initial Teacher Education), Dr Mathew Thomas (Engineering), Dr Waireti Roestenburg (Social Health & Wellbeing), and Dr Indu Peiris (Management and Economics) were recently promoted to the prominent position of Principal Academic Staff…

Open Polytechnic empowers ākonga choice with business degree programmes changing to monthly intakes

Open Polytechnic is providing greater access to courses for ākonga (learners) and increased flexibility to study at their own pace, by recently changing to a monthly enrolment intake for most of its business degree offerings in the Bachelor of Business, Bachelor…

New Zealand Defence Force staff taking command of their careers through Te Pūkenga study

Open Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga and the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) have joined forces to recognise prior learning from on-the-job training for military-personnel who undertake tertiary education through Open Polytechnic.

Open Polytechnic graduates celebrate at graduation ceremonies

Seven hundred graduates from throughout Aotearoa New Zealand received their diplomas and degrees from the Open Polytechnic, either at graduation ceremonies in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, or in absentia, in May 2023.

Open Polytechnic helps floristry learner’s career bloom

Open Polytechnic graduate Jessica Cooper has not only turned a hobby of picking and wrapping flowers into a career, but recently she attended the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show which ran from 29 March to 2 April 2023.

New accounting degree opens for enrolment at Open Polytechnic

Open Polytechnic has opened the Bachelor of Accounting for enrolment. It is the first unified degree programme to be offered across most NZIST business divisions.  

Open Polytechnic earns Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark

Open Polytechnic has been working closely with Ako Aotearoa to gain the Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark (DFQM) accreditation.