Tai Poutini Polytechnic

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Tai Poutini Polytechnic

Established	1989
Academic staff	168 FTE Staff 2017
Students	1,840 EFTS 2017
Location	Greymouth , New Zealand
Affiliations	Public NZ TEI
Website	http://www.tpp.ac.nz/

Tai Poutini Polytechnic (TPP) is a company that aims to provide tertiary education meeting the needs of West Coast students and businesses. TPP's West Coast programmes include tourism and hospitality training across the retail and service sector, outdoor education training, agriculture, extractive/mining, and specialist jade and hard stone carving programmes.

TPP trains around 6,000 students every year in full or part-time study options. TPP aims to get their students into jobs in the local community, so they work with industry partners and local employers to ensure the training is suited to the needs of the West Coast. Training is provided on local campuses in Greymouth and Westport, with on-site training at various locations across the region to ensure the students face real world work requirements.

In addition to their West Coast-based programmes, TPP also offers a range of national niche programmes at sites from Wānaka to Auckland, including:

• emergency management and search and rescue training through our Emergency Management Department;
• industry training including scaffolding, industrial ropes, rigging, and cranes;
• civil construction industry training;
• ski patrol training based in Wānaka.

In 2017, TPP received a rating of 4 from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, the worst rating received for a polytechnic institute. In 2018, the New Zealand based media company Stuff released an article about TPP criticizing Tai Poutini Polytechnic.^[1]

On 1 April 2020, Tai Poutini Polytechnic was subsumed into New Zealand Institute of Skills & Technology alongside the 15 other Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).^[2]

Programmes

Tai Poutini offers a range of mainstream and specialist programmes. Specialist outdoor education programmes, including ski patrol, are located in the South Island. The polytechnic's one and two year jade carving programmes are unique to New Zealand, and are situated near the source of West Coast jade.

Study options:

References

External links

• Official website

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