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International experts will focus on water resources and environmental and ecological hydraulics at a conference being held in Auckland next week (21-24 February). The Open Polytechnic and Auckland University are co-hosting the 17th Congress of the Asia Pacific Division of the International...

A new partnership between Ara Institute of Canterbury, the South Island’s largest vocational education provider, and Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s leading online and distance learning provider, aims to create improved access and opportunities for secondary students to follow their...

Open Polytechnic’s recently released 2020 Annual Report shows the online and distance learning provider enrolled record numbers of learners, increased its overall learner satisfaction, and returned a strong financial result.Open Polytechnic, which became a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga on 1 April...

A new agreement signed between Open Polytechnic and the New Zealand Law Society will see the two organisations working together to upskill legal executives, paralegals and legal assistants throughout the country. Under the terms of the agreement, Open Polytechnic and the New Zealand Law Society...

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Ltd, the nation’s specialist provider of online and distance learning, has developed interactive learning scenarios for secondary school pupils in a partnership with the Government-backed financial education programme Sorted in Schools. Sorted in Schools,...

Open Polytechnic and LearningWorks have teamed up to co-develop a course that will train on-job assessors through online and blended learning.  This new collaboration between Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s largest online distance provider, and learning design, technologies and training...

The flowers at Open Polytechnic’s graduation ceremony in Wellington on Tuesday 27 May had special significance, as they were arranged by award-winning Academic Staff Member in floristry, Megan Parker.   Since Megan is based in the Wellington region, it made perfect sense for Open Polytechnic...

Recognising the growing need for effective managers who possess both technical and conceptual managerial skills, the Open Polytechnic has introduced the new Bachelor of Applied Management to its range of distance learning qualifications.Designed to equip graduates for middle and upper management...

Open Polytechnic regional lecturer, Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) in the School of Education Studies, Fi McAlevey, has been awarded the Graham Nuthall Classroom Research Award to continue her doctoral studies at Otago University focused on early childhood education. “My...

World class student achievement levels for distance learning and helping the Government to achieve Better Public Service targets are highlights of the Open Polytechnic’s 2012 Annual Report tabled in Parliament recently. The Open Polytechnic is New Zealand’s specialist provider of flexible...