Open Polytechnic (reviews)

I did my BBus through Open Polytech (2007-2013) and was really happy, recommended them. However, in the last couple of years I had to do the Level 5 Certificate in Financial Services (Residential Property) and am now doing the Level 4 Certificate in Accounting, and wow has the standard gone downhill. There were so many errors in the Level 5 Certificate, they had not updated it with very important changes in the laws (of which I rolled out changes in my organisation, so I knew more than the tutor did!). Now I am doing a Level 4 Certificate and the standard of the information is poor, forms that don’t work and vaguely worded questions that the ‘tutor’ refused to clarify. At least I didn’t pay for it but the taxpayers (of which I am one) are still paying for it! Such a shame to see my alma mater go backwards like that.

Thank you Open polytechnic for all your support! In particular kate Caie who has been my facilitator for most of my programme. The entire team are also incredibly supportive and inspirational. Working full time and studying can be challenging, but with open polytechnic, study is made easier to balance with work and whanau. The entire faculty support you and they make learning fun! You’re the best! And I’m so grateful!

I’ve been studying Architectural Technology with them. It’s atrocious, unbelievably bad.

Course Tutors are oblivious or just don’t care about educating. Course material is useless and assignments might as well be in a different language from the course materials, as they have no reference to each other.

As the name of my study suggests I’m interested in drawing Architectural Drawings. They expect me to submit detailed drawings however this is not something they teach in the course! I was given access to LinkedIn learning and told to learn how to draw over there! The price of this thing is $12000 to than be told that you will not learn anything is a beyond mind boggling! Stay away!!!!

I have been doing this course distantly due to covid 19 for a year and the lecturers and facilities provided are great! They are very flexible and approachable despite the time differences and they even post voluminous content so that I don’t have to print them all.