Otago Polytechnic. Photo: Peter McIntoshOtago Polytechnic's enrolments are up by 8.2% this year, but the fees-free scheme did not have the expected effect because of the timing of enrolments, the polytechnic says. The total number of equivalent full-time students totalled 4754 Efts; 3786 being domestic and 968 international. Its communications director, Mike Waddell, said that domestic equivalent full-time student numbers were up by 204.International student numbers had increased by 158 full-time equivalent students, and the entire roll was 362 students up from last year, an increase of about 8.2%. The University of Otago could not comment on the effect that the fees-free scheme had had on university enrolments, or how many students qualified for the scheme.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 01, 2018 17:26 UTC