Bay of Plenty Polytechnic has been renamed Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in hopes of better recognition on an international scale.
This was one of the points stressed to students in Tauranga this week at a Bay of Plenty Polytechnic stakeholder meeting at the Bongard campus of the institution - the final of four meetings held around the Bay of Plenty in the lead up to the official establishment, merging Waiariki Institute of Technology and Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, on May 1.
About 40 Bay of Plenty Polytechnic students voiced their concerns to a small panel representing the school about whether the changes would affect their StudyLink, the qualifications they would receive and why they had no input into the new name.
On May 1, the education provider would cease to exist as Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and become Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology.
The new name was established to appeal to a bigger international audience, said Anthony Robertson, director of corporate services.