Aoraki Polytechnic

Aoraki Polytechnic staff have gathered at a meeting facilitated by a mediator to discuss the institution's future.

Aoraki Polytechnic film student Aaron Richardson (19) at the screening of his film For Granted, which was played at the Church Cinema on Dundas St, Dunedin, this week.

Aoraki Polytechnic is considering a request that it establish replacement media courses at its Dunedin campus, as part of a final review of its education priorities.

Cutting media courses from Aoraki Polytechnic may spell the end for the Dunedin campus, the Tertiary Education Union has warned.

Worryingly, maddeningly, and perplexingly short-sighted is Dunedin editor and author Emma Neale's description of Aoraki Polytechnic's plans to cut its Dunedin creative writing course. She calls for a rethink.

Aoraki Polytechnic has extended a consultation period with students and staff as part of considerations about whether to slash its course programmes and potentially cut up to 20 jobs.

Dunedin teacher and writer Jenny Powell calls for ways to be found to save the courses threatened at Aoraki Polytechnic's Dunedin campus.

Aoraki Polytechnic students at the Dunedin campus want the tertiary institution to live up to its slogan of "supporting your success", a group of film and television production students say.

Aoraki Polytechnic has launched a review of its education priorities, which may result in hundreds of enrolled students being cut from course programmes and the loss of about 20 jobs.

A project which started as a lesson in meeting deadlines ended up being an exceptional, but exhausting, learning experience for Aoraki Polytechnic film and television students.