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Library employees who want to take their careers to the next level and gain professional registration will now find the process easier when they complete an information and library studies undergraduate degree with the Open Polytechnic. The Open Polytechnic is the only provider of undergraduate...
Kerikeri-based Open Polytechnic student Katrina Berghan has been named the top graduating student in the 2008 New Zealand Law Society’s nation-wide Legal Executive Course examinations. “I was really shocked, and quite overwhelmed to be named the top graduate”, says Katrina, who worked...
Open Polytechnic opened its campus doors to a number of organisations, community groups and individuals with an interest in online course design as part of the 2018 Hutt STEMM Festival.Teachers, trainer’s and education designers from a variety of organisations were in attendance, including the...
A new Māori and Pasifika trades training consortium is an innovative blend of distance learning, community support, industry partners and employers says Open Polytechnic Chief Executive Dr Caroline Seelig. The Southern Initiative Infrastructure Consortium Māori and Pasifika Trades Training is...
West Coast learners can now access a greater range of more flexible online training options, while still enjoying all the benefits of campus facilities and support services. A new partnership between Tai Poutini Polytechnic and national online learning provider The Open Polytechnic of New...
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 year. This is part...
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...
A new health and safety course, offered online through a collaboration between WorksafeReps and Open Polytechnic, will help workplace health and safety representatives gain the skills they need to promote safer work practices. The Initial Health & Safety Representative Training course is NZQA...
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...
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.