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.

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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 >>

Open Polytechnic Scoops Business Awards

Monday, 25 July 2005, 9:30 am | Open Polytechnic

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has won both the Education Provider Award and the Overall Excellence in Business Support Award at the inaugural nationwide Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards. More >>

Applied Business Conference Attracts Educators

Monday, 27 September 2004, 10:11 am | Open Polytechnic

Nearly 200 tertiary educators will gather in Wellington tomorrow for the annual New Zealand Applied Business Education Conference at Te Papa. More >>

e-Learning Focus of Education Conference

Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 5:31 pm | Open Polytechnic

e-Learning and digital technologies are rapidly becoming standard features in the delivery of today's tertiary education. In this continually evolving environment, educators and those in related fields are challenged to keep abreast of change. More >>