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-term future in a country I love,” Gabriela says.  By her own admission, Gabriela is “bit is excited about the future. “The skills I’ve picked up have given me so much more confidence,” she

The Open Polytechnic held the last of its nationwide graduation ceremonies for the year in Wellington this week [23 May] with students from a wide range of diploma and degree subjects receiving their hard earned qualifications. Bachelor of Applied Management graduatesThis year’s ceremonies...

In a first for the West Coast, students who have completed the New Zealand Diploma in Business with Tai Poutini Polytechnic will now be able to enrol in a Bachelor of Business by distance with the Open Polytechnic and still access Tai Poutini Polytechnic services.Enrolments are open for the...

In 2015 Open Polytechnic was a finalist in the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards for the Excellence in Leading – Atakura Award.  The nomination acknowledged the work Open Polytechnic is doing in helping teachers to become more skilled and confident to teach science and mathematics...

Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s leading distance and online provider is forward-focused and excited about the transition to Te Pūkenga next year as part of the government’s Reform of Vocational Education.

When AyeJaye Melei decided to study early childhood education with her mum, she had no idea how it would change their mother- daughter relationship, or her relationship with her own daughter.  “I had been doing law papers and decided to do the certificate with my mum, because I had taken a...

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