Otago Museum is offering a new $5000 fellowship to boost
research involving biological classification, and also plans
to establish two scholarships for University of Otago
postgraduate students later this year.
Lovers of slightly curly questions will find plenty to enjoy
and, occasionally, scratch their heads over, in a big team
quiz planned for the Otago Museum on May 17.
Delphi Fang, of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum,
has become the first person to work at the Otago Museum under
a series of staff exchange agreements signed with overseas
museums.
Faced with growing financial pressures, the Otago Museum
plans to dip into its reserves for the first time for many
years by spending more than $300,000 to improve salaries and
offset rising costs.
An anonymous survey shows high and rising levels of overall
job satisfaction among staff at the Otago Museum, but
long-standing concerns about some below-market salaries seem
to remain.
The Otago Museum has reorganised its divisional structure,
generating increased responsibilities for three staff, with
no redundancies, museum organisers say.
The Otago Museum has reorganised its divisional structure,
generating increased responsibilities for three staff, with
no redundancies, museum organisers say.
The crowds may not have always been teeming at the Otago
Museum's tropical forest, but the forest's recent artificial
"monsoons" did prove successful and might be repeated.
Otago Daily
Times editor Murray Kirkness and Southland Times editor
Fred Tulett will take part in a panel discussion this month
on the "changing media landscape" and its dramatic effect on
communicating the news.
