Concept
University of Otago
Overview
The University of Otago (Māori: Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka) is a public research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It was established by ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council in 1869 and opened for teaching in 1871, making it New Zealand's oldest university. Between 1874 and 1961 Otago was part of the federal University of New Zealand and conferred degrees in its name. In July 2023 the university adopted the Māori identity Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka as part of a major rebrand, with the changes taking effect from May 2024.
As of 2024, Universities New Zealand reported a student headcount of 21,315 (18,564 equivalent full-time students). The university is centred on its Dunedin City campus and teaches across additional campuses in Christchurch and Wellington for health sciences.
Otago is known for student culture associated with "Scarfies", a nickname derived from wearing scarves in Dunedin's cold winters, and for a long-running tradition of naming student flats. In recent years, local media have noted the slang term "breather" among students. The graduation ceremonies traditionally include the singing of Gaudeamus igitur (Let us rejoice while we are young).
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At 6 o'clock the students are called, " 7 to 8 studies, " 8 to 9 scripture-reading, prayers, and breakfast, " 9 to 12 studies, " 12 to 1¼ leisure, nominally devoted to walking or other exercise, but often spent in study, " 1¼ to 2 dinner, the meal commonly occupying twenty minutes, " 2 to 5 studies, " 5 to 6 tea and relaxation, " 6 to 8½ studies, " 8½ to 9½ private studies in preparing lessons for the next day, " 10…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
States what University of Otago is.
Those who inhabit the frontiers of Finland, have adopted some of the expressions of their neighbours, as happens to every people: but when two nations give to things of common use, to objects which are continually before their eyes, names absolutely different, it affords a strong presumption, that one of them is not a colony from the other. The Finlanders call a bear Karu, the Laplanders Muriet: the sun in the…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
States what University of Otago is.
If we reflect upon the various ideals of education that are prevalent in the different countries, we see that what they all aim at is to organize capacities for conduct. This is most immediately obvious in Germany, where the explicitly avowed aim of the higher education is to turn the student into an instrument for advancing scientific discovery. The German universities are proud of the number of young specialists…
William James, Talks To Teachers On Psychology
Close in meaning to University of Otago; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed University of Otago
- Jeremy Waldron
- J. L. Mackie
- Arthur Prior
- J. N. Findlay
- John Passmore
- Alan Musgrave
- Jc Beall
- Purushottama Bilimoria
- Stathis Psillos
- Paul Snowdon
Related ideas
- Washington, D.C.
- Charles III
- John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
- London
- Jeremy Waldron
- HuffPost
- Netherlands
- Māori people
- The Daily Telegraph
- J. L. Mackie
- University of Tübingen
- University of Auckland
- Sydney
- Durham University
- Arthur Prior
- Tertiary education
- United Kingdom
- University of Oxford
- Vietnam War
- Wellington
- McMaster University
- United States
- University of Glasgow
- Leiden
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.