Wellington Education Cluster
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Wellington Education Cluster browse the list of over 300 programmes or courses of study and get full details of any programme. Start by selecting a subject area, a level of qualification or one of the providers.
Glossary
Provider:
The three providers are government owned tertiary education institutions based in the Wellington region.
- The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand - Based in Lower Hutt, The Open Polytechnic specialists in providing distance and online education throughout New Zealand and internationally.
Wellington Education Cluster browse the list of over 300 programmes or courses of study and get full details of any programme. Start by selecting a subject area, a level of qualification or one of the providers.
Glossary
Provider:
The three providers are government owned tertiary education institutions based in the Wellington region.
- The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand - Based in Lower Hutt, The Open Polytechnic specialises in providing distance and online education throughout New Zealand and internationally.
Wellington Education Cluster browse the list of over 300 programmes or courses of study and get full details of any programme. Start by selecting a subject area, a level of qualification or one of the providers.
Glossary
Provider:
The three providers are government owned tertiary education institutions based in the Wellington region.
- The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand - Based in Lower Hutt, The Open Polytechnic specialises in providing distance and online education throughout New Zealand and internationally.
- Wellington Institute of Technology - Based in Petone, has campuses in Wellington City, Petone, Auckland and Christchurch and delivers a mix of class based, distance and online courses.
- Whitireia Community Polytechnic - Based in Porirua, has campuses in Wellington City, Porirua and on the Kapiti Coast, and delivers a mix of class based, distance and online courses.
Full-time or Part-time study:
Some contact courses require full time attendance at class-based lessons. Others may be taken on a full-time basis but through distance learning. Part-time study means you can continue with work or other commitments while studying either by contact or distance.
Mode of Delivery
Courses are delivered in variety of ways or a combination, the mode of delivery refers to:
- Class-based - a formal classroom setting
- Distance - delivered by distance learning, including online and correspondence.
- On-job - delivered at the your place of work
Credit:
A credit is a value that is attributed to courses and is a guide to the number of hours of learning for the course. Each credit is approximately equivalent to 10 hours of learning, i.e. if a course is 20 credits that means it is equivalent to approximately 200 hours of learning.
Level:
When you are selecting what you want to learn you need to consider the level of study. This is based on New Zealand's National Qualifications Framework. Level 1 is entry-level education and broadly compares with Year 11 at a New Zealand secondary school. Levels 8-10 offers more advanced learning and is comparable to postgraduate studies.