Student support levies and charges at Otago Polytechnic could rise 30% next year to fully recover the cost of providing support services, while tuition fees could rise 4% across the board.
Between them, the Otago University Students' Association and the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association collected more than $3.7 million this year from almost 30,000 members, but their revenue base could dry up overnight if Act New Zealand's Voluntary Student Membership Bill is passed. Tertiary education reporter Allison Rudd investigates whether the associations would survive.
Otago Polytechnic is supporting Dunedin businessman Ian Taylor's bid to vary the terms of an economic development grant so he can use the money to establish a world-class sports analysis centre based at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
A tiny fraction of the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association membership has made a fundamental decision about its future.
The University of Otago has topped teaching and learning performance rankings for the university sector, with Otago Polytechnic achieving an excellent report for its degree students, amid mixed results for other southern polytechnics.
Dunedin's two main tertiary institutions have combined to offer fast-track qualifications for people from throughout New Zealand wanting to become secondary-school technology teachers.
A group of Dunedin women artists has launched a second secret "art attack" at the University of Otago College of Education.
The Otago Daily Times Aria competition has been a springboard to an international career for several young New Zealand opera singers, and this year's winner, Daniel O'Connor, hopes it will do the same for him.
Take two waste products readily available in Dunedin, add water and Kiwi ingenuity and the result could be a product with vast commercial potential.
Saddle Hill residents are urging the Dunedin City Council to immediately stop excavation at the Jaffray's Hill quarry until the owners' legal right to quarry there is clarified.
Students attending the University of Otago could be paying about 6.5% more to belong to their student association next year.
A University of Otago staff member's dedication has earned him praise from his superiors.
Should they stay or should they go? That was the question about 40 Otago Polytechnic students and visitors gathered to discuss yesterday.
Esme Knox was the girl of the moment at Dunedin North Intermediate yesterday.
Cost-cutting at Otago Polytechnic will see about 20 staff losing their jobs or reducing their work hours by the end of the year.
It may take Dunedin city planning staff some weeks to work through the issue of quarrying activities on Saddle Hill, resource consents manager Alan Worthington says.
Esme Knox's quick thinking probably saved her sister's life yesterday.
A referendum asking Otago Polytechnic students whether they support the student organisation withdrawing from its national association will be held this month.
The loss of 15 positions at the University of Otago's College of Education by the end of next year has been confirmed, with more job losses signalled for 2012.
If someone relates an unlikely story about a draught horse being let loose in the heart of the University of Otago campus to eat the lawn and graze on the shrubs, it is all true.
