Unitec New Zealand's academic strategy focuses on: 1) Developing an institutional culture of innovation and enterprise where innovation and student-centered approaches are expected and rewarded. 2) Ensuring programs are accessible and responsive to student and industry needs through flexible pathways, academic and pastoral support, and interaction with stakeholders. 3) Adopting practice-focused, interdisciplinary curricula that are theoretically grounded, collaborative, and promote lifelong learning and socially just outcomes.

1. Academic Strategy Unitec New Zealand

2. An institutional culture of innovation and enterprise Expected Rewarded

3. Committed to... Being student centred in all our services and activities

4. Ensuring that the principles of Te NohoKotahitanga inform all our activities

5. Understanding and responding effectively to the needs of Pacific peoples. Access and equity

6. Our provision will ..... Educate people for work, in work and through work.

7. Be delivered through flexible study pathways

8. Include excellent academic and pastoral support

9. With our stakeholders we will.... Have active and responsive interaction with industry, professional and community groups to shape content, curricula and delivery modes.

10. Our curricula will.... Demonstrate a commitment to open inquiry

11. Adopt a multiplicity of approaches and ways of being

12. Be based on ‘practice-focused’ educational experiences that are... Contextualised and situated in practice Interdisciplinary Founded on and advancing current practice Theoretically grounded as well as guided Both creative and critical

13. Promote collaborative learning

14. Value equitable, socially just and ethical practice

15. Have integrated approaches to Academic literacies as a foundation for learning Innovative assessment E-learning content and support

16. Our teaching will Be research-informed and inquiry-led Acknowledge the reciprocity of teaching and research

17. Our graduates will.... Acquire a balance between specific, current content and lifelong learning capabilities

18. Achieve career-enhancing educational outcomes which are critically conceptualised and practiced.

19. Have the knowledge, skills, and attributes to face the challenges of the future and to live in a multi-cultural world

20. Have a capacity to contribute positively to society, manage their own careers and function competently in changing environments.