Welcome to Aoraki Polytechnic

Aoraki Polytechnic has excellent supportive tutors and small class sizes. Our qualifications have been developed in collaboration with experts in relevant industries, professions and trades. They are practical, student focused and have excellent employment outcomes.

With campuses spread across the Central South Island in Timaru, Ashburton, Oamaru, Christchurch and Dunedin, Aoraki Polytechnic is ideally placed to help you succeed. We also have a range of specialist courses offered throughout New Zealand in areas as diverse as parenting, business ownership and agriculture.

Aoraki Polytechnic would like to help you make one of your most important decisions and look forward to welcoming you as one of our students.

2010 A Year of Implementing Change

2010 was a year of significant change for Aoraki Polytechnic.
The new Tertiary Education Strategy provided a strong direction for change and a new Chief Executive and Council brought new ideas and vision for how the strategy could be implemented. The starting point for change was an organisational stock-take conducted in 2009. This was followed by a consultation process that resulted in over 100 submissions from staff supporting a new direction.

Staff supported a more student-centric approach to the organisation with overall support for a new direction - new vision, new goals and new values.