Otago Polytechnic is "proving its capabilities internationally", undertaking its fifth management contract with Bahrain Polytechnic, chief executive Phil Ker says.
Mr Ker left on Thursday to spend a week in the Persian Gulf kingdom carrying out an academic review of the polytechnic's programmes.
Opened at the end of 2008, Bahrain Polytechnic is the only one in the kingdom of just over one million people.
It was established to train people to fill labour-market shortages in areas such as information and communications technology, engineering, business, international trade, design and office management.
Otago Polytechnic's other contracts had included helping to develop and implement diploma and degree programmes and management systems, Mr Ker said.
The two institutions have also signed a memorandum of understanding for future joint projects.
One of those was likely to be introducing to Bahrain the assessment of prior learning qualification system that Otago had developed.
APL assesses people's skills and experience and designs a programme for them to fill in any gaps and obtain recognised diplomas or degrees.
"We do things well here ... It is good for us to prove our capabilities internationally by winning contracts such as these," Mr Ker said.
The links between the two institutions came about because two former Otago Polytechnic staff members were now working at the Bahrain institution.
Mr Ker said Otago Polytechnic had initially won contracts in a competitive process and had been offered further contracts because those in Bahrain had been happy with its work.
