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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 supports the Government’s reforms to create a more collaborative, integrated national network for vocational education in New Zealand.Chief Executive of Open Polytechnic, Dr Caroline Seelig, said the reforms will drive better, more flexible lifelong learning pathways for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

James Cook High School in Auckland is working with The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand to move its courses online in response to the coronavirus pandemic.The two education providers have been working together for two years to explore innovative ways of enriching classroom teaching through online...

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....