Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Practice to strategy: Implementing a locally based framework for teaching recognition and its impact on a university’s strategic direction

AUT is one of a number of recently subscribed Advance HE institutions in Australasia and is the first university in Aotearoa New Zealand to introduce a comprehensive framework for teaching recognition. The Ako Aronui Framework is based on indigenous Maori values and the UKPSF. A key consideration was combining the local context alongside institutional needs. In this case study we show how senior managers view the implications of implementing an innovative bicultural framework. By sharing our experience we hope to make explicit the process for gaining strategic impact from developing a locally based framework in conjunction with Advance HE.