Aoraki Polytechnic

44°23′59″S 171°14′49″E / 44.39972°S 171.24694°E / -44.39972; 171.24694

Aoraki Polytechnic
Academic staff
158 FTEStaff 2005
Students1910 EFTS (2012)[1]
Location
Timaru
,
New Zealand
AffiliationsPublic NZ TEI
Websitehttp://www.aoraki.ac.nz/

Aoraki Polytechnic was a public New Zealand tertiary education institution. Aoraki Polytechnic's main campus was based in central Timaru, South Canterbury, South Island. It also had campuses offering a variety of programmes in Ashburton, Oamaru, Christchurch and Dunedin. In March 2016, Aoraki Polytechnic merged with the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology to form Ara Institute of Canterbury.[2]

In 2015 Aoraki Polytechnic had 1,021 Equivalent Full Time students (EFTS) and approximately 93 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Academic Staff and 44 FTE Support staff.[3]

  1. ^ "Participation". Education Counts. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Murphy, Emily (30 March 2016). "Polytechnic merger rebranded as Ara Institute". The Press. p. A3.
  3. ^ "Aoraki Polytechnic Annual Report 2015" (PDF). www.ara.ac.nz. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2017.