| Institute of the Pacific United (IPU NZ) | |
| Motto: | Go Global at IPU New Zealand |
| Established: | 1990 |
| City: | Palmerston North |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Students: | 500 |
| President: | Setsuko Ohashi |
| Head Label: | CEO |
| Head: | Hiroshi Ohashi |
| Website: | www.ipu.ac.nz |
| Image Alt: | http://www.ipu.ac.nz/image.php?image_id=454&size=large |
| Type: | Private |
| Campus: | UrbanRanking - Category 1 (in top 5 PTEs) - World ranking in the top 3000* |
Institute of the Pacific United is a Japanese and New Zealand tertiary educational institution based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Another network of the institute is International Pacific University, which was established in 2007 in Okayama, Japan. Students of IPU New Zealand are from 24 different countries around the world.
IPU New Zealand mainly offers tertiary education of business (including accounting, finance, marketing and management), international relations, linguistics, environmental studies and tourism.
Despite the fact that the institution had been known as International Pacific College (IPC) for 25 years, its name was officially changed to Institute of the Pacific United (IPU New Zealand) on 26 September 2015.
On 24 May 2013, the Manawatu Standard broke an article detailing the difficulties the reporter had getting information from the management staff as to the organisational restructure that was taking place.[1] Sources, including previous and current employees, had revealed to the newspaper, under the condition of anonymity, that more than 10% of the work force had been "laid off, left or were "forced out" since the start of the year." Sources also revealed the extent of the institutions use of service as opposed to permanent employment contracts, and that "Management were reluctant to be upfront about the restructure because of cultural differences and the need to "save face.[1] "
President Wayne Edwards responded to the article more than a month and half later in an interview with the reporter,[2] stating that privacy concerns had prompted the College's extended silence on the issue.