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• New online course to help make New Zealand workplaces safer

  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.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Open Polytechnic wins at Wellington Region Business Awards

  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.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Ako Aotearoa to use iQualify learning platform

  Ako Aotearoa, a Government funded organisation delivering high quality professional learning development opportunities to New Zealand’s tertiary teachers, trainers and educators has signed an agreement to use the iQualify learning platform for their course delivery.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• No tuition fee increase for second year running for Open Polytechnic students

  For the second year running Open Polytechnic, one of the largest educators of New Zealand’s current workforce, will not be increasing tuition costs for its fee-paying students.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Adult educators to benefit from new Open Polytechnic qualifications

  The launch of two new fee-free qualifications in adult education by Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s leading provider of online and distance learning, are aimed at helping educators lift the skills levels of adults in the workplaces and communities they teach in.   

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Open Polytechnic student makes a difference in his home country

  Open Polytechnic Bachelor of Arts graduate Driden Kunaka is set to send over 40,000 books to underprivileged schools in his home country, Zimbabwe.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Open Polytechnic contribution to science and maths teaching recognised

  In 2015 Open Polytechnic was a finalist in the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards for the Excellence in Leading – Atakura Award. 

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• No tuition cost increases for Open Polytechnic fee-paying students in 2016

  Fee-paying students at one of New Zealand’s largest tertiary education organisations will have no increase in tuition costs next year.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Open Polytechnic farewells Erima Henare

  Kua hinga te tōtara nui o te wao nui a Tāne-mahuta. A great tōtara tree from the forest of Tāne-mahuta has fallen.

  Posted on 3 March 2020

• Open Polytechnic students take top spots in New Zealand Law Society examinations

  Open Polytechnic students achieved top marks in the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) examinations for 2014, and have been recognised in the top-spots in five out of six of the examinations that make up the NZLS Legal Executive Diploma.

  Posted on 3 March 2020