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Knowledge Wave has Dangerous Undertow

Wednesday, 7 November 2001, 4:36 pm | Otago University Students Association

Students are dismayed that the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission’s report into tertiary funding has suggested restrictions on student numbers. More >>

Students Slam Loan Review Sham

Tuesday, 30 October 2001, 3:57 pm | Otago University Students Association

Student representatives are slamming the report of the Education and Science Select Committee into Student Loans and Allowances. More >>

Monkey Madness

Wednesday, 26 September 2001, 3:58 pm | Otago University Students Association

Wednesday 26 September will see monkeys dressed in academic regalia on the streets of Dunedin. It is the opening of a national student campaign to highlight the continuing effects of the last ten years' government underfunding of tertiary education. More >>

Frozen Fees for Scarfies

Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 8:33 am | Otago University Students Association

University of Otago Students are celebrating their Council’s decision to hold fees at current levels in 2002. More >>

Public Out In The Cold Over Fee Freeze

Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 11:45 am | Otago University Students Association

University of Otago students are protesting moves to exclude the public from the University Council’s fee stabilisation decision. More >>

Isn’t If Freezing Down There?

Friday, 17 August 2001, 10:45 am | Otago University Students Association

University of Otago students are holding a Big Fee Freeze party to mark the conclusion of a three-month campaign against fee increases. More >>

Student Health Exempt From Fee Freeze

Monday, 6 August 2001, 11:03 am | Otago University Students Association

Otago Students are celebrating the news that the University of Otago’s Student Health Service will be exempt from the government’s fee freeze deal. More >>

Postgraduates To Join OUSA

Wednesday, 25 July 2001, 11:59 am | Otago University Students Association

Postgraduate students have voted overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Otago University Students’ Association in an electronic referendum on membership. More >>

Fee Freeze Feasible

Friday, 20 July 2001, 11:57 am | Otago University Students Association

The University of Otago can achieve fee stabilisation if it borrows against its assets argues Ayesha Verrall President of the Otago University Students’ Association. Today the Association released a paper outlining its how the University can accept the ... More >>

Uncertainty Over Student Health Service Costs

Monday, 2 July 2001, 11:50 am | Otago University Students Association

The cost of using the University of Otago’s Student Health Service appears uncertain as students wait for the Government to exempt student health levies from the fee freeze. The government is currently considering whether it will exempt the Health ... More >>

It’s A Student Friendly Budget! (Yeah Right)

Thursday, 24 May 2001, 4:46 pm | Otago University Students Association

The Otago University Students Association describes today’s budget as, “disappointing given the Labour Party’s clear mandate to improve access to tertiary education,” according to President Ayesha Verrall. More >>

PPL “Priority” But No Action

Thursday, 24 May 2001, 4:44 pm | Otago University Students Association

The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) is disappointed with the complete neglect of money put aside for Paid Parental Leave in the budget, which was announced today. More >>

Agreement Advances Co-operation in Student Service

Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 5:19 pm | Otago University Students Association

The Otago University Students’ Association and the University of Otago today concluded an agreement resolving the longstanding uncertainty surrounding the ownership of the University Union building and the responsibility for its management. More >>

OUSA Warns of Unpredictable Student Response

Monday, 7 May 2001, 9:27 am | Otago University Students Association

The Otago University Students’ Association fears student responses to tuition fee increases could resemble those of the 1990’s. More >>

The Buck Stops Here

Monday, 7 May 2001, 9:25 am | Otago University Students Association

"Accepting the fee freeze is the only way to prevent students from being burdened with additional costs that they can no longer absorb", said President of the Otago University Medical Students Association, Cindy Towns. More >>

Students’ Association Offers ACT Olive Branch

Thursday, 26 April 2001, 10:00 am | Otago University Students Association

In light of the ACT Party financing schemes made public by the Sunday Star Times, the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) is considering offering the ACT Party ONE MILLION DOLLARS in the hope that their tertiary education policy will improve. More >>

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