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An international research project is investigating the wellbeing of people in countries around the globe. Aaron Jarden, the President of the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology and a lecturer in psychology at the Open Polytechnic, is leading a team of researchers in The Wellbeing...

Kua hinga te tōtara nui o te wao nui a Tāne-mahuta. A great tōtara tree from the forest of Tāne-mahuta has fallen. Open Polytechnic Chief Executive, Dr Caroline Seelig, today expressed the organisation’s sadness at the passing of Erima Henare, Executive Director Māori Tumu Herenga....

  When Masterton’s Mark Walker began his early childhood education studies with Open Polytechnic, he never imagined that he would be completing his degree and representing his peers as a 2016 graduation student speaker. Open Polytechnic held the second of the 2016 national graduation...

, a research method designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from

Open Polytechnic’s Head of School of Commerce and Enterprise, Linda Weterman, has been appointed to the national board of the YMCA New Zealand. Linda, who will fit her board membership around her management role at Open Polytechnic, says she is looking forward to making a positive contribution...

A new public relations textbook is the first to focus on New Zealand’s unique cultural, communication, and information environment, says its lead author Associate Professor Gary Mersham. “The majority of public relations books available in New Zealand are of American, British or Australian...

; the introduction of the government’s fees-free Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund; an increase in New

To applause from their proud family and friends, Open Polytechnic distance learning graduates from throughout the lower North Island crossed the stage at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington recently [23 May, 3.30 pm] to receive their well-earned qualifications.Open Polytechnic’s Wellington...

of Otago’s OUR journal service. As a founder member of the journal's editorial collective Neil negotiated