Massey University, New Zealand
Strategic Curriculum Transformation: Enabling Institutional Agility at Massey University
When Massey University embarked on a mission to modernise its curriculum systems, it reimagined how curriculum governance could drive both academic excellence and strategic agility.
Discover how one of New Zealand’s premier universities transformed an ambitious 18-month rollout into a foundation for long-term academic innovation.
Key Takeaways
- From Policy to Practice: See how robust lifecycle management of curriculum data turned high-level policy alignment into streamlined, day-to-day operational efficiency.
- Beyond Digitisation: Learn why the goal wasn’t just going digital – but using digital workflows to remove bottlenecks and accelerate academic decision-making.
- Integration as Infrastructure: Explore how seamless connections to systems like SITS and Drupal enabled more than clean data – they created a foundation for scalable, strategic operations.
- Strategic Governance in Action: Discover how custom analytics dashboards empowered both departmental and executive leaders to make data-informed decisions.
- Curriculum that Talks to Students: Understand how the transformation enhanced not just governance, but the entire student-facing curriculum experience – making it more accessible, transparent, and responsive.
Massey University (Māori: Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington.
Massey University has approximately 26,505 students, 12,037 of whom are extramural or distance-learning students, making it New Zealand’s second largest university when not counting international students.
Research is undertaken on all three campuses, and almost 5,000 international students from over 100 countries study at the university.
Students: 26,505 (2024)
Undergraduates: 22,905 (2024)
Postgraduates: 3,600 (2024)
Administrative staff: 3,000+ (2025)