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Polytechnic degrees

From 1990 polytechnics could offer degree courses. These bachelor of health science (nursing) graduates from the Auckland Institute of Technology were amongst the first students to gain a degree from this institution in 1993.

Photograph courtesy of the New Zealand Herald

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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Tertiary sector reform from the 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34432/polytechnic-degrees (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 29 May 2012.