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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...

National online learning provider Open Polytechnic of New Zealand recorded a significant increase in learner enrolments for 2019.Open Polytechnic recorded a 4% increase in equivalent full-time student (EFTS) numbers in 2019 to reach 5641 EFTS.Open Polytechnic is the sector’s largest provider...

Open Polytechnic and New Zealand’s specialist provider of online and distance learning, celebrated the first graduates of its Funeral Directing programme at ceremonies held in Christchurch and Auckland recently.  New Zealand Diploma in Funeral Directing (Level 5) graduate, Nina Andrews, who...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 Kua Hii Ake Te Ata Study Award. Our Study Awards are aimed at encouraging and supporting our Māori students towards completing a Level 5 or above qualification. There were twelve students who were successful in the final intake during November. The...

Open Polytechnic ākonga (learner) Hannah Hall has always enjoyed the design aspect of architecture, but it wasn’t until January 2024 that she decided to turn it into a career. Hannah, 21, had been working at her family’s coffee shop in Auckland before enrolling in the New Zealand Diploma in...

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....

Amro Gamal, Academic Staff Member in Learning Delivery at Open Polytechnic, presented at the World Association for Co-operative and Work-Integrated Education (WACE) 6th International Research Symposium on Work‑Integrated Learning recently, held in conjunction with the Work-Integrated Learning...

The Open Polytechnic has opened provisional enrolments for its new nationwide early childhood education teaching degree. The Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) is currently pending accreditation and approval from the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality (ITPQ) and the...

An international organisation dealing with water issues is calling for researchers to make submissions on water issues with a New Zealand flavour. The 17th Congress of the Asia Pacific Division of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research will be held in Auckland next...

Open Polytechnic was well represented at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2025 recently, by Megan Parker, Academic Staff Member in floristry for the distance learning organisation, along with former horticulture graduate and well-known landscape designer Bayley...