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Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic is a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell and Auckland. It provides career-focused education and training, offering a range of New Zealand-accredited postgraduate qualifications, degrees, diplomas and certificates at levels 2–10.
From 1 November 2022 until 31 December 2025, it operated as a business unit of Te Pūkenga (the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology). From 1 January 2026, Otago Polytechnic became a standalone organisation, delivering all programmes and training directly.
Otago Polytechnic traces its ancestry back to 1870, when the Dunedin School of Art was established as New Zealand's first dedicated art school. Founded by Scottish art teacher David Hutton, who arrived in Port Chalmers that year equipped with plaster casts of classical sculptures, the school opened in February and became the oldest teaching department within the polytechnic sector. It quickly gained prominence, producing influential artists such as Frances Hodgkins and Colin McCahon.
Hutton was given two rooms in the former Post Office Building (now the current site of John Wickliffe House along Princes Street in Dunedin), and then a set of rooms in a newly completed school building administered by the former New Zealand Department of Education along Moray Pl in Dunedin.
In 1889, the Dunedin Technical School opened to complement the art school's offerings, initially providing evening classes in subjects including English, Latin, literature, chemistry, mathematics, shorthand, and woodwork. These programs, organized by the Dunedin Technical Classes Association and housed alongside the Dunedin School of Art, targeted young men seeking further education amid the needs of early settler communities, and keep them off the streets.
By 1909, the institution expanded to include technical classes specifically for secondary school pupils, broadening access to vocational training. Hutton taught evening classes in painting, clay modelling and freehand, geometric, mechanical and architectural drawing.
In 1914 the Dunedin Technical School relocated to the current site along Stuart Street, and was renamed to the King Edward Technical College, after the late British monarch, King Edward VII.
In 1921 the college took over the Dunedin School of Art. The college expanded further by taking on the evening and day time education of apprentices, technicians and professionals.
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Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic is a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell and Auckland. It provides career-focused education and training, offering a range of New Zealand-accredited postgraduate qualifications, degrees, diplomas and certificates at levels 2–10.
From 1 November 2022 until 31 December 2025, it operated as a business unit of Te Pūkenga (the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology). From 1 January 2026, Otago Polytechnic became a standalone organisation, delivering all programmes and training directly.
Otago Polytechnic traces its ancestry back to 1870, when the Dunedin School of Art was established as New Zealand's first dedicated art school. Founded by Scottish art teacher David Hutton, who arrived in Port Chalmers that year equipped with plaster casts of classical sculptures, the school opened in February and became the oldest teaching department within the polytechnic sector. It quickly gained prominence, producing influential artists such as Frances Hodgkins and Colin McCahon.
Hutton was given two rooms in the former Post Office Building (now the current site of John Wickliffe House along Princes Street in Dunedin), and then a set of rooms in a newly completed school building administered by the former New Zealand Department of Education along Moray Pl in Dunedin.
In 1889, the Dunedin Technical School opened to complement the art school's offerings, initially providing evening classes in subjects including English, Latin, literature, chemistry, mathematics, shorthand, and woodwork. These programs, organized by the Dunedin Technical Classes Association and housed alongside the Dunedin School of Art, targeted young men seeking further education amid the needs of early settler communities, and keep them off the streets.
By 1909, the institution expanded to include technical classes specifically for secondary school pupils, broadening access to vocational training. Hutton taught evening classes in painting, clay modelling and freehand, geometric, mechanical and architectural drawing.
In 1914 the Dunedin Technical School relocated to the current site along Stuart Street, and was renamed to the King Edward Technical College, after the late British monarch, King Edward VII.
In 1921 the college took over the Dunedin School of Art. The college expanded further by taking on the evening and day time education of apprentices, technicians and professionals.