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Open Polytechnic
New Zealand's specialist open and distance learning institution
Open Polytechnic is New Zealand's specialist provider of open and distance learning, enrolling over 30,000 mainly part-time students each year in a wide variety of certificate, diploma and degree programmes. The majority of students are adult learners combining work and study, making the Open Polytechnic one of New Zealand's major educators of people in the workforce.
Open Polytechnic - Latest News [Page 10]
Pioneering eLearning Earns Accolades
Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 11:31 am | Open Polytechnic
National distance learning provider The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has been honoured at the New Zealand Open Source Awards for its pioneering role in promoting the adoption of low cost eLearning technology in New Zealand (New Zealand Open Source ... More >>
Communication model draws international attention
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 10:42 am | Open Polytechnic
A communication methodology for e-Learning, jointly developed by communication lecturers Deirdre Viviers and Dr Gary Mersham at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, has caught the imagination of delegates from Britain, Europe and the United States at an international ... More >>
Open Polytechnic lecturer receives top scholarship
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 4:34 pm | Open Polytechnic
Robert Shaw, a senior lecturer in management at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, has been awarded a top scholarship to pursue his doctoral research in education by The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. More >>
Open Polytechnic students win accounting prizes
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 11:56 am | Open Polytechnic
Four Open Polytechnic of New Zealand students studying towards accounting qualifications received awards from The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants to coincide with the Polytechnic’s graduation ceremonies recently. More >>
Open Polytechnic wins Business Award
Friday, 1 June 2007, 3:57 pm | Open Polytechnic
Supporting Kiwi business through nationwide education and training earned The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand top marks in the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards held last night in Auckland. More >>
Open Polytechnic wins Business Award
Friday, 1 June 2007, 3:57 pm | Open Polytechnic
Supporting Kiwi business through nationwide education and training earned The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand top marks in the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards held last night in Auckland. More >>
Kiwis ahead of the Aussies in Emergency Management
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 5:34 pm | Open Polytechnic
"Since the recent Tsunami panic on the Australian East coast in April, Australians are particularly interested in New Zealand", says Open Polytechnic of New Zealand based crisis communication expert Dr Gary Mersham . More >>
Open Polytechnic celebrates graduation
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 2:26 pm | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, the nation’s specialist provider of distance learning, is celebrating graduation this month with ceremonies held around the country. More >>
New edition of Information Management book
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 2:44 pm | Open Polytechnic
A unique book that looks at the future direction for information services in New Zealand in the digital age, how the Treaty of Waitangi is being incorporated into our libraries, and what education providers and professional associations can offer ... More >>
Open Polytechnic gets top marks in audit
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:42 pm | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has received top marks from the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality during its audit process, awarding the distance education specialist quality assured status for a further four years. More >>
Open Polytechnic students win prizes
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:28 pm | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand is celebrating the achievement of three of its legal executive students whose top marks for 2006 saw them each win prizes from the New Zealand Law Society. More >>
Open Polytechnic leads international research proj
Monday, 19 February 2007, 3:54 pm | Open Polytechnic
As sustainability experts express growing concern for the quality of the world’s water supplies, an international research team led by Dr Gregory De Costa from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand is investigating ways to help alleviate the situation ... More >>
Open Polytechnic potato blight research published
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 11:40 am | Open Polytechnic
The potato blight that affected Ireland in the 1840s played itself out sixty years later in New Zealand, causing a devastating effect on Māori communities according to research recently published by Associate Professor Graham Harris from the Natural ... More >>
The Open Polytechnic wins placing at NZIM Awards
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 2:58 pm | Open Polytechnic
Two students from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand have won second and third place for their presentations at the NZIM Applied Management Awards held in Wellington this week. Vannesa Davison and Levonne Bell, both Auckland based students, won second ... More >>
The Open Polytechnic awards students
Thursday, 7 September 2006, 4:33 pm | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand honoured six of its students from around the country this week by acknowledging their outstanding study achievements with Adult Learners’ Week/He Tangata Mātauranga Awards. More >>
Open Polytechnic Research wins international award
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:12 pm | Open Polytechnic
Dr Gillian Oliver from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has taken away the top award in the Information Science category of the international 2006 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. More >>
Construction Industry Staff Earn Recognition
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:11 pm | Open Polytechnic
Having their skills formally assessed will help workers in New Zealand's infrastructure industries fast track their way to national qualifications under a new agreement between The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and InfraTrain, the infrastructure Industry ... More >>
Open Polytechnic turns 60
Friday, 21 July 2006, 2:47 pm | Open Polytechnic
This month marks the 60th Anniversary of a trailblazing institution in New Zealand distance education. Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis have studied with The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and its predecessors The Technical Correspondence Institute and the ... More >>
Open Polytechnic and ACPET Reach Agreement
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 9:41 am | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) have reached an agreement to share the administration costs of relocating students from a liquidated private training provider owned by the Polytechnic ... More >>
Substantial Commitment to Australian Learners
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 8:34 am | Open Polytechnic
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand says it made a substantial commitment to supporting a private training establishment it owned in Australia before the company went into liquidation earlier this year. More >>
