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Research team reflects on virtual teaching experience

A cross-department team from Otago Polytechnic has reflected on their online teaching experiences for a new research paper. The lockdown pushed tertiary educati...

16 July, 2020

IT industry partnership reaping benefits

OPAIC’s partnership with an Information Technology professional with more than 30 years of experience in the industry is reaping benefits for everyone involve...

3 July, 2020

Success Story: Juan Carlo Crispino

Juan Carlo Crispino came to OPAIC to gain a qualification that would back up his work experience. JC studied advertising back home in the Philippines and was a...

25 June, 2020

Top achievers celebrated

We would like to congratulate all of our Excellent Scholars and Student Ambassadors who were recognised at today’s awards ceremony. Excellent Scholars recipie...

22 June, 2020

A great time to work in the rural industries

Covid-19 has certainly changed employment markets and work opportunities. In New Zealand, what were considered traditional skills areas are making a come back....

3 June, 2020

Introducing our new Student Representative

Our new Student Representative is Bachelor of Applied Management student Hardik from Chandigarh, India. Hardik has already been an active Student Ambassador at...

2 June, 2020

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Developing IT skills through real-world project

Two of our Graduate Diploma in Information Technology students have recently built a business intelligence dashboard for a retail company as part of their studi...

29 May, 2020

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Graduate shares wisdom with construction students

An OPAIC construction graduate who has gone on to a successful career in the industry has shared his wisdom with current students. Bruce Kang graduated from OPA...

28 May, 2020

Proud to be an essential worker

OPAIC student Bhavdeep Singh is proud to be an essential worker helping to serve the community during Covid-19. He’s one of many students and graduates helpin...

25 May, 2020

Alumni share wisdom in online session

Our students were fortunate to hear stories and tips from successful graduates during an online Alumni Panel Discussion last week. Our Employability and Indust...

21 May, 2020

Success Story: Sikandar Hirani

Sikandar Hirani enrolled in the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Quantity Surveying) to gain technical knowledge and grow professionally. He works for Auc...

15 May, 2020

Keeping up with study despite distance

Ramandeep Kaur is staying up until the early hours of the morning to attend online classes from her home in India. Ramandeep was unable to return to New Zealand...

13 May, 2020

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COVID-19 and the student voice

Students are by and large happy with the way OPAIC has reacted to COVID-19 and are adjusting well to the new ways of learning. When COVID-19 restrictions came i...

6 May, 2020

Thai students safe in lockdown

Eight international students from Thailand have been caught up in the COVID-19 lockdown and are staying at the Central Campus until flights become available. Th...

5 May, 2020

Observing Ramadan during COVID-19

Otago Polytechnic’s Muslim whanau are observing Ramadan differently this year. Ramadhan is a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community for Muslims ar...

5 May, 2020

Hard at work from her bubble

Rashmiben Patel has been keeping busy in her bubble – attending online classes and helping a flower company connect with customers. Rashmi studies the Graduat...

5 May, 2020

Success Story: Jiahui (Joelle) Li

Graduate Joelle Li is enjoying life in sunny Nelson where she works as Marketing Representative for a New Zealand sea salt company. Joelle studied the Graduate...

29 April, 2020

Success Story: Rachit Kushwaha

Graduate Rachit Kushwaha has been making his mark in New Zealand through his initiatives to help new migrants. Rachit came to New Zealand from New Delhi to stud...

24 April, 2020

Using VR to promote sustainable buildings

An OPAIC team has published a research paper about using virtual reality to promote sustainable buildings. Buildings made of raw earth are popular around the wo...

22 April, 2020

Making the most of the lockdown

Aleksandr Taran is making the most of the lockdown by engaging in online learning and using his spare time to practise his English. Aleksandr, who is from Russi...

22 April, 2020

Continuing to study from afar

Roman Nazarov found himself unable to return to New Zealand when COVID-19 border restrictions came into effect, but he hasn’t let that get in the way of his s...

21 April, 2020

Celebrating our top scholars in a virtual setting

We’d like to congratulate all the students recognised at our Excellent Scholars award ceremony today. Excellent Scholars takes place every study block and rec...

20 April, 2020

Gaining global construction experience online

A group of construction students have made OPAIC proud at a global online competition. OPAIC selected a team of four undergraduate construction students to part...

17 April, 2020

Keeping online learning interesting through gamification

Our lecturers are finding innovative ways of keeping their students engaged during the lockdown period. Senior Business Lecturer Lorraine Skelton has started us...

17 April, 2020

Overcoming COVID-19 challenges to continue study

OPAIC student Alexey Zernov intended to take a short holiday in Russia between completing his English language programme and starting his Master of Applied Mana...

16 April, 2020

Adapting to teaching under COVID-19 lockdown

When New Zealand went into lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, our staff needed to quickly adapt. For our academic staff, this meant moving all class...

6 April, 2020

A new approach to Orientation

We took a new approach to Orientation at OPAIC last week. COVID-19 prevented our new students from attending their traditional on-campus Orientation. Fortunatel...

31 March, 2020

MP talks climate change

Students had the opportunity to learn about the Zero Carbon Act and its impact on New Zealand Businesses from Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick yesterday. The Grad...

26 February, 2020

Developing skills for 2020 and beyond

Upskill, develop resilience, and be yourself, were among tips given to students at our BizTech event last night. The theme of the event was Skills for 2020 and...

21 February, 2020

Learning about sustainability in business

Our students had the opportunity to learn about sustainability in business from an industry expert yesterday. Ben Mayer, Climate Change and Sustainability Advis...

21 February, 2020

Dunedin campus welcomes overseas visitors

Our Dunedin campus welcomed staff and students from our partner institution South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) in the United States in early February....

19 February, 2020

OP students getting international experience

Otago Polytechnic students are preparing for the global workplace along with students from other polytechnics through study tours. Students have been taking pa...

19 February, 2020

Central campus hosts Mexican delegation

Our Central Campus hosted a delegation from the Mexican government in February. This was a ministerial group from Jalisco province, which made time to divert fr...

19 February, 2020

Increasing self-compassion in young people through virtual reality

Two OPAIC Graduate Diploma in Information Technology students, Konstantin Emanov and Andrej Hlasnik, are working on a Virtual Reality for Mental Health project....

17 February, 2020

Sharing AI research with tech community

Head of IT and Principal Lecturer Farhad was invited as a speaker to the AI Global Bootcamp held at AUT recently. Several speakers from the Microsoft MVP commun...

17 February, 2020

IT lecturer takes research to Japan

Head of IT and Principal Lecturer Dr Farhad Mehdipour has participated in the 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech) which was held in Fu...

17 February, 2020

OPAIC construction research on show

Four OPAIC construction students have had research papers selected for publication and will present at a symposium this week. Construction Senior Lecturer Dr Do...

17 February, 2020

Cross department research project recognised

A research collaboration between OPAIC's Construction, Information Technology and Management departments has been recognised at a prestigious international conf...

17 February, 2020

Success Story: Jingyue (Ellen) Chen

English language student Jingyue Chen is loving her time at OPAIC and hopes to pursue further study here. Jingyue’s mum and dad wanted her to continue her edu...

5 February, 2020

Lunar New Year at OPAIC

We celebrated the Lunar New Year on campus at lunchtime today. Staff and students worked together to organise the event, which included traditional outfits, c...

24 January, 2020

Success Story: Sergey Ananyev

Graduate Sergey Ananyev loved the way he could forge his own path at Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus. Sergey was born and raised in Moscow. He h...

24 January, 2020

Visiting teachers get familiar with our Central Campus

The Central Campus has recently hosted four ‘Train the Trainer’ learners from Chile. The learners were teachers from Agriculture Schools in Chile. They were...

21 January, 2020

Success Story: Jing Cao

Business graduate Jing Cao is thrilled to have landed a job at New Zealand telecommunications company 2degrees. Jing comes from China and has been in New Zealan...

17 January, 2020

Introducing our new Student Representative

We’d like to introduce our new Student Representative - Pulkit Jain. Pulkit is from Delhi, India. He is studying the Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management a...

13 January, 2020

Success Story: Andrej Hlasnik

Information Technology student Andrej Hlasnik is learning new things each day at OPAIC and using his impressive work background to help other students succeed....

13 January, 2020

Orientation at OPAIC

We’re welcoming the decade’s first batch of new students to the campus this week. The students have come from as far afield as Russia, China, India, the Phi...

8 January, 2020

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Graduate address: Olha Viazenko

Student speaker Olha Viazenko told our international graduates to think of themselves as new Kiwis, at yesterday’s graduation ceremony at the Auckland Town Ha...

29 November, 2019

Celebrating success at biggest ceremony to date

More than 300 graduates crossed the stage at OPAIC’s biggest ceremony to date at the Auckland Town Hall yesterday. Guest speaker Guy Howard-Willis told gradua...

29 November, 2019

Students help out at Walking Stars event

OPAIC's students and staff volunteered their time to help the Cancer Society with its Walking Stars event on the weekend. Walking Stars is a night-time walkin...

25 November, 2019

Connecting for Success

Students received great advice on how to build their connections in New Zealand from six industry guests at last night’s BizTech Meetup: Connect for Success e...

15 November, 2019

Management lecturers share knowledge in China

Lydia Harrell and Dani Mao from the OPAIC Applied Management Team presented at two conferences in China in mid-October. Their abstract, titled ‘A model for in...

13 November, 2019

OPAIC lecturer takes honey business to China

OPAIC lecturer Jay Hourani was invited to a NZ Trade Mission in Chengdu and Xi’an in China recently to represent his company as part of a New Zealand trade de...

12 November, 2019

Movember on campus

We launched Movember on campus today. Movember is all about changing the face of health. It aims to tackle cancers, mental health and suicide. Movember takes pl...

1 November, 2019

Connecting with the Cancer Society

OPAIC staff visited the Cancer Society yesterday to establish a partnership with the not-for-profit organisation and discuss opportunities for our students to v...

1 November, 2019

Diwali on Campus

It was great to see so many students and staff at our Diwali celebration on campus on Friday. We hope you all enjoyed the event. You can check out the photos h...

29 October, 2019

Success Story: Abida Manzoor

Abida Manzoor faced a big cultural change when she moved to New Zealand to study, but with the help of OPAIC’s team of staff she’s excelling here. Abida say...

22 October, 2019

Block 5 Orientation underway

We’ve got more than 115 new faces on campus this week. Academic Director, Professor Leoni Schmidt, welcomed our new students, during a day of Orientation talk...

17 October, 2019

Boosting confidence with local experience

Management student Samuel Alonso has come away from his MediaWorks placement confident about his professional future in New Zealand. Sam says he was so keen to...

9 October, 2019

Volunteering at the Auckland City Mission

A group of students and staff spent four hours volunteering at the Auckland City Mission on Friday. The group prepared food, served lunch to more than 120 peop...

23 September, 2019

Success Story: Dmitrii Golyshev

Dmitrii Golyshev was struck by the friendly and relaxed nature of New Zealanders when he made the move here from Moscow. He and his family had been thinking abo...

16 September, 2019

Fashion meets sustainability

New Zealand Fashion Week has provided our business students with the perfect opportunity to get out of the classroom and put principles of sustainability into p...

30 August, 2019

Industry guest for Construction students

Our Construction students had the opportunity to hear from an experienced industry guest yesterday. Red Zhou is a quantity surveyor who has been working at Ha...

29 August, 2019

Success Story: Akshay Varasadiya

Akshay Varasadiya never considered coming to New Zealand before his friend recommended OPAIC. “He told me Otago Polytechnic is one of the best in Auckland cit...

20 August, 2019

Welcoming our new students

Our newest students are learning about everything OPAIC has to offer at this week’s Orientation. We’re welcoming students from countries including Russia, N...

8 August, 2019

Promoting employability thinking

OPAIC staff are getting familiar with the latest research around graduate employability through a series of interactive workshops. Senior Researcher: Learner Ca...

7 August, 2019

Success Story: Farjana Rahman

Interning at The Peace Foundation was an eye-opener for Farjana Rahman, who now knows what she wants to do in her career. Farjana recently finished the Graduat...

6 August, 2019

Incorporating culture into teaching

Information Technology lecturer Dr Suhaimi (Hymie) Latif brought his cultural background into his Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education, which he recently comp...

18 July, 2019

Creating learner-centred environments

Principal lecturer Dr Indrapriya (Indra) Kularatne undertook the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education to gain theoretical and practical knowledge in the field...

17 July, 2019

Success Story: Fabianna Cinelli Maroni

Recent graduate Fabianna Cinelli got great work experience interning at a top hotel chain in Auckland, during her time at OPAIC. Now she’s moved to Wellington...

16 July, 2019

Addressing the diverse needs of learners

All of our teaching staff are experts in their fields, with academic and industry experience. Recently, many have been working to upskill themselves by completi...

15 July, 2019

Congratulations to our graduates

A record 740 people are graduating in person from Otago Polytechnic today.More than 320 graduands took the stage for the first of two graduation ceremonies at...

14 December, 2018

‘Amazing opportunity’ for management students

Two OPAIC students had the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the project management industry and to network with professionals recently. Postgraduate Dip...

26 September, 2018