Massey University, New Zealand
Strategic Curriculum Transformation: Enabling Institutional Agility at Massey University
When Massey University set out to modernise its curriculum systems, they redefined how curriculum governance could serve both academic excellence and institutional strategy.
Find out how one of New Zealand’s leading universities turned an 18-month rollout into long-term academic agility.
Key Takeaways
- From Policy to Practice: Discover how lifecycle management of curriculum data transformed policy alignment into daily operational efficiency.
- Beyond Digitisation: Learn why digital workflows weren’t the end goal—but rather a means to eliminate bottlenecks in academic decision-making.
- Integration as Infrastructure: How seamless links to SITS, Drupal, and Active Directory enabled more than just data hygiene.
- Strategic Governance in Action: See how custom analytics dashboards began shaping decisions at both the department and leadership levels.
- Curriculum that Talks to Students: Explore how the project improved not only governance – but the entire learner-facing curriculum experience.
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)
