Doctor of Professional Practice
The Doctor of Professional Practice captures emergent knowledge relevant to the candidate’s work and relevant for work contexts, integrating work-based knowledge with disciplinary knowledge to create new knowledge.
All professional doctorates share significant features: the study is focused on generating substantial original knowledge from and about practices within a professional setting and combining it with formal disciplinary knowledge. New synthesised knowledge informs the candidate, the organisation, the field of practice and the profession.
This innovative and advanced educational programme aims to enable candidates to create new knowledge for and about New Zealand’s workplaces through applied practice and research projects; thereby facilitating the development of their personal and professional practice as leaders of practice.
Our goal is to help you design and then achieve new professional and personal learning goals, over a three year (full-time) enrolment period. These goals will be identified by you. There are no taught courses in this programme; instead, it is self-directed and you will be provided with academic support staff who will work with you combining distance and face-to-face learning, supported by online resources.
Campus Information
Dunedin Campus
This is the main Otago Polytechnic campus. We're just ten minutes' walk from the city centre, with its great shopping and superb cafés, restaurants, museums and galleries. We're right near the harbour, mountain bike tracks, sports facilities, the cricket oval and Forsyth Barr Stadium, and a short drive away from excellent surf beaches, and outlying suburbs that have their own cool village vibe.
Central Otago Campus
Our Central Otago campus is in Cromwell, a growing town surrounded by rugged landscapes, lakes, vineyards and orchards. The programmes we offer are tailor-made for the location, giving you study options such as snowsports, outdoor adventure, apiculture, horticulture, cookery with a regional focus, and stonemasonry using the schist that this region is built on. We even have a state-of-the-art teaching brewery if you fancy yourself as a craft brewer.
Auckland International Campus
Auckland is New Zealand's largest city and centre of business and industry — and our International Campus is right in the heart of it. Located on Queen Street in the central business and shopping district, the campus is perfectly placed for you to experience the excitement of the city. But when it comes to study, the campus is a perfect haven for learning, studying or relaxing with your fellow students. Unlike our Dunedin and Cromwell campuses, the Auckland campus is exclusively for international students. Our students come from all over the world to study programmes in English language, business, information technology and construction.
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Application Processing Time in Days: 10
Minimum English Language Requirements
| English Level Description | IELTS (1.0 -9.0) | TOEFL IBT (0-120) | TOEFL CBT (0-300) | PTE (10-90) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expert | 9 | 120 | 297-300 | 86-90 | |
| Very Good | 8.5 | 115-119 | 280-293 | 83-86 | |
| Very Good | 8 | 110-114 | 270-280 | 79-83 | |
| Good | 7.5 | 102-109 | 253-267 | 73-79 | |
| Good | 7 | 94-101 | 240-253 | 65-73 | |
| Competent | 6.5 | 79-93 | 213-233 | 58-65 | |
| Competent | 6 | 60-78 | 170-210 | 50-58 | |
| Modest | 5.5 | 46-59 | 133-210 | 43-50 | |
| Modest | 5 | 35-45 | 107-133 | 36-43 | |
| Limited | 4 | 32-34 | 97-103 | 30-36 | |
| Extremely Limited | < 4 | < 31 | < 93 | < 30 |
Job Opportunity Potential
Career planning and decision making
Career is a whole of life concept and not just what you are currently doing as a ‘job’. It is the Interrelatedness of all things currently in your life – study, leisure, family, friends, voluntary and/or community work, and how you fit it all together.
Career Planning
There are so many choices and options available and this can make planning your career quite difficult. The new 'world of work' requires you to be in charge of creating your own career; managing it will be a life-long journey.
Your most important asset is yourself. Therefore, the more you invest in yourself in the form of skills and knowledge development, self-awareness, networking and gaining relevant experiences, the more you expand your opportunities.
Self-assessment
Self-assessment or self-understanding is the process of knowing yourself. Before you can decide what you want to be, you first have to define who you are.
As you continue to develop both personally and professionally throughout your career, it will be necessary for you to re-assess yourself periodically in relation to your career goal provider.
Career Exploration - The World of Work
It is important to explore the 'world of work' before making a career decision to ensure that you are well informed of the work environment. Knowing where the jobs are and how easy it is to get them will influence your choices. Being aware of the obstacles or trends in the world of work will help you make career enhancing decisions to enable you to transition into successful employment.
Career pathways
From the information from your research select the one job that most appeals to you. Taking into consideration all of the information that you have gathered so far about yourself, and any other information, identify why you have chosen one particular path over the other. You could do this by drawing up a table where you list advantages and disadvantages.
Developing your action plan
Once you know what direction your career goal is in, you need to develop a career action plan. A career action plan helps to clarify directions and decision making.
Put the plan into action
The final step in the career plan is Deliver. Now you need to put your plan into action and make it happen. Start the journey towards a career you will love.
PSW Opportunity
- During study, all students on a student visa can work up to 20 hours per week during semester and full time during vacations.
- After completing Level 7 Bachelor’s Degree or Higher Qualification, a student will get a three years open post-study work visa.
- After completing Level 8 Post Graduate courses of 1 year, students get 1 year PSW.
Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria
To enter Otago Polytechnic’s undergraduate certificates, diplomas, and degrees, you need to have achieved a secondary school qualification that is equivalent to New Zealand’s NCEA levels (National Certificate of Educational Achievement).
India
NCEA Level 2
Equivalent entry requirements for certificates and diplomas
- At least 55% average across 4 academic subjects in CBSE, HSC or ISC with at least 60% in English, or equivalent in other boards
NCEA Level 3
Equivalent entry requirements for bachelors' degrees and selected diplomas
- At least a 70% average over 4 academic subjects in CBSE, HSC, or ISC with at least 60% in English, or equivalent in other boards.
Nepal
NCEA Level 2
Equivalent entry requirements for certificates and diplomas
- Higher Secondary Certificate with 1st division pass.
NCEA Level 3
Equivalent entry requirements for bachelors' degrees and selected diplomas
- Successful completion of one year’s tertiary study at a recognized institution. Or successful completion of an Otago Polytechnic certificate program.
Sri Lanka
NCEA Level 2
Equivalent entry requirements for certificates and diplomas
- 4 GCE O Levels with grades ranging from A-C
NCEA Level 3
Equivalent entry requirements for bachelors' degrees and selected diplomas
- Sri Lankan GCE A Levels with passes in at least 3 subjects.
- Or successful completion of an Otago Polytechnic certificate program.
The Doctor of Professional Practice is a competitive entry programme, with a limited numbers of candidates accepted in any one year.
Prospective candidates must have:
a Master’s qualification at the standard of Excellence or Credit, or the equivalent (eg A or B grade, Honours 1 or 2),
and evidence to the satisfaction of the Research and Post-Graduate Committee to demonstrate:
extensive professional experience of an appropriate kind, relevant to the stated field of practice (for example 7-10 years);
ability and willingness to successfully undertake a self-managed academic process;
an established professional relationship and/or employment/self-employment with the opportunity to undertake projects, inquiries or other work-based activity;
demonstrated academic writing and researching skills at postgraduate level.
Additionally, acceptance as a doctoral student will be after developing a research proposal and undertaking an interview with representatives of the Doctor of Professional Practice programme committee.
It will also depend on the availability of academic mentoring in the area of the candidate’s research interests.
If English is not your first language, you must provide:
New Zealand University Entrance OR
Overall Academic IELTS 6.5 with no individual band score lower than 6.0 (achieved in one test completed in the last two years)
- Course Type: Full Time
- Course Level: Doctoral Degree/PhD
- Duration: 03 Year
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Total Tuition Fee:
79560 NZD
Annual Cost of Living: 20000 NZD
Application Fee: N/A