Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) somewhat controversial

Posted 3:31am Wednesday 27th April 2011

The Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) was introduced to Parliament recently and had its first reading under urgency last week. The Bill makes a number of changes to the Education Act, including establishing a new Crown agent Education New Zealand. Perhaps of particular interest to students is that Read more...

Anzac Day Wreath

Posted 3:28am Wednesday 27th April 2011

OUSA plans to lay a wreath at next Monday’s Anzac day service. OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan told Critic  “We lay a wreath every year and I haven't heard any suggestions from Exec members that we may not continue that practice.”   We were just checking. Read more...

Shanghai scholarships for University and Polytechnic

Posted 3:27am Wednesday 27th April 2011

Visiting delegates from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade University have offered 10 summer study scholarships to Dunedin students as part of fostering the relationship between the sister cities. Five scholarship are allocated to the University of Otago, with five for the Otago Polytechnic. Read more...

Bonus Bonds suspected of taking tainted money

Posted 6:49am Thursday 14th April 2011

To mark the “drugs” issue, Critic sent a reporter into the field to delve into the student drug trade. We found that Dunedin is a relatively pricey and difficult place to obtain most drugs, with drugs like ecstasy and acid far less accessible and more expensive than in other major New Zealand Read more...

Students fuck themselves by being too good

Posted 6:47am Thursday 14th April 2011

The Hyde St Keg Party cleanup was such a success that similar initiatives could be extended to other parts of the student area in the future. The cleanup consisted of students being woken up at 9am by council workers to clean up the street after the annual street party. However the Otago Daily Read more...

Miss University

Posted 4:08am Monday 11th April 2011

Radio station ZM is a running a Miss University contest where ladies can post a charming photo of themselves on the station’s website and be in to win $1000 and a years supply of Subway. This competition is pretty much tailor made for first year UniCol tarts, so get your iPhones out and get Read more...

Cagey Character

Posted 4:07am Monday 11th April 2011

A man has taken to a cage by the side of the road on State Highway 1 for a month to protest against the treatment of battery caged hens. Carl Scott was spurred to protest by a draft code issued by the Government's National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. The draft code called for hens to be Read more...

Canterbury Students Flee

Posted 4:17am Monday 28th March 2011

The University of Canterbury has announced a new exchange opportunity which will allow 42 senior students to study for a term at the University of Oxford. There will be places for 32 honours students and 10 postgraduates students from arts, humanities, social sciences or law. The term will Read more...

Fear and loathing in Dunedin

Posted 4:36am Monday 21st March 2011

Dunedin students, absolved from responsibility over the increasingly violent nature of the inner city, are now taking the opportunity to express the constant and harrowing fear in which they find themselves living. Critic interviewed several students, all of whom wished to remain anonymous for Read more...

Stride captures Critic’s attention. Literally.

Posted 4:29am Monday 21st March 2011

Critic sent a news reporter to speak to OUSA Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride last Thursday in an attempt to weasel information out of him that he had been expressly forbidden from giving us. Stride, however, was playing his cards close to his chest and refused to let slip any juicy details Read more...