Ako Aotearoa leads New Zealand's tertiary sector in building educational capability for learner success.

Guide

Mitigating assessment anxiety in first-year university students: A resource guide for teaching staff

This resource offers valuable insights and strategies for educators to support and guide first-year university students in managing assessment anxiety effectively.

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The Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark Award Ceremony 2024

We warmly invite you all to celebrate the organisations who have achieved the Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark (DFQM) in the past year.

Video

Te Whatu Kairangi Awards Ceremony 2024

Watch the recording of the 2024 Te Whatu Kairangi Awards Ceremony, hosted by Hon Penny Simmonds on 4 November 2024 at Parliament Buildings. 

 

Ako Aotearoa News

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Announcement

Ako Aotearoa announces six successful projects in 2024 contestable funding round

The Ako Aotearoa Research and Innovation Agenda (AARIA) has awarded research funding to six innovative, ako-centered Tertiary education projects in 2024.

Hiria tumoana and Kerry davis receive the educator of the year award

News

Two outstanding educators receive the Prime Minister’s top tertiary Award for 2024

Kerry Davis, a Principal Lecturer in Nursing at Otago Polytechnic, and Hiria Tumoana, a Senior Lecturer for Te Ūranga Waka at Eastern Institute of Technology were announced as this year’s recipients of the Te Kaiako Ngātahi o te Tau a Te Pirimia | Prime Minister’s Joint Educator of the Year award in 2024.

Torunn Gjelsvik webinar

Information session

Webinar with Ms Torunn Gjelsvik from the ICDE

Ako Aotearoa was pleased to be able to support a webinar with Ms Torunn Gjelsvik, Secretary General of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), to talk about the work of the ICDE and international trends in distance/open education related to access, equity and scalability.