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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...

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....

Fee-paying students at one of New Zealand’s largest tertiary education organisations will have no increase in tuition costs next year. National distance learning provider, Open Polytechnic, enrols over 31,000 students throughout New Zealand and will hold its 2016 tuition fees at this year’s...

The Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s largest provider of flexible distance learning at tertiary level, won the Professional Services category at Friday night’s (4 November) Wellington Region Business Excellence Awards. Organised by the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce, the annual awards...

Open Polytechnic’s new Continuing Professional Development course (CPD) for financial advisers is now open for enrolment.  The regulatory framework for financial advisers has changed. One of the changes is a new Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Services (the Code) which sets...

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A collaboration between Open Polytechnic’s iQualify online learning platform and the New Zealand branch of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) will see local engineers able to upskill through micro-credentials.IPWEA NZ is the peak association for professionals who...

ESA Publications, a subsidiary company of The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Ltd, has printed thousands of workbooks and distributed them to the Ministry of Education to help school pupils who do not have access to devices or the internet as part of the Ministry’s COVID-19 learning from home...

The retiring Chair of the Open Polytechnic, Douglas Langford, has welcomed the announcement of new ministerial appointments to its Council by Steven Joyce, Minister of Tertiary Education.  The new appointments include Graeme Hall (Chair), Dr Alan Barker (Deputy Chair), Sue Duncan and Dr Ray...

The Open Polytechnic has taken out the top award at the Hutt Valley Business Excellence Awards held in Lower Hutt in November. The Waiwhetu-based distance tertiary education specialist won both the Not for Profit and the Supreme Award at the awards ceremony organised by Business Hutt Valley. The...