More than 180 people from around New Zealand are expected at two education conferences in Dunedin next week.
The annual conference for computing and information technology educators will begin at Otago Polytechnic on Tuesday, and the University of Otago Students' Association (OUSA) is hosting a national student association conference from Thursday to Saturday.
About 80 people have registered for each conference. Another 20 secondary teachers are expected at a one-day series of workshops being held on Tuesday in conjunction with the Computing and Information Technology Research and Education in New Zealand (Citrenz) conference.
The three-day Citrenz conference was a forum for the discussion and exchange of information on topics related to computing and information technology education and practice, Otago Polytechnic head of the school of information technology Lesley Smith said.
National and international educators would be attending.
Among the guest speakers will be Nathan Shedroff, co-founder of one of the world's first web design businesses and chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
The end of compulsory membership for student associations and the possible introduction of voluntary membership is on the agenda at the New Zealand Union of Students' Association's (NZUSA) conference.
John Ong, co-author of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report commissioned by NZUSA, will release the report and its findings into the economic value of student associations and the potential impact of voluntary membership on student services.
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce and Tertiary Education Union national secretary Sharn Riggs are among the guest speakers.
The NZUSA holds three conferences annually.
