Aoraki Polytechnic

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Aoraki Polytechnic

Academic staff	158 FTEStaff 2005
Students	1910 EFTS (2012)[1]
Location	Timaru , New Zealand
Affiliations	Public NZ TEI
Website	http://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]

Southern Upload

Southern Upload was a television show produced by Aoraki's Film and Television students, which started in 2011.^[4]

Alumni

• Sinead Boucher - journalist and chief executive of Stuff Ltd