As a wave of mobile learning begins to sweep through the University of Otago , Dr Jacques van der Meer is helping develop short educational video clips to be played on smartphones and other portable devices.
The Otago Conservation Board strongly opposes a Department of Conservation agreement in principle to grant consent for a proposed $150 million Milford Dart bus tunnel.
Dr Denise Powell, a trained teacher of the deaf, is "absolutely gobsmacked" over the dispute involving special funding for deaf Green MP Mojo Mathers.
Otago University Students Association student support centre manager Matt Tucker is urging students to seek help early if they are having problems with flats, flatmates or their studies.
Final plans for a sunny and attractive new foyer and entranceway at the Otago Settlers Museum are starting to take shape as the $38 million museum redevelopment project moves closer to completion.
Students encountering University of Otago Associate Prof Allan Blackman during one of his huge first-year chemistry lecture classes can expect plenty of enthusiasm, a dash of humour and even a few chocolate fish.
Fish and Game Otago is keen for contractors to take gravel from consolidated sites, including through quarrying, rather than continuing the "contentious" practice of removing it from Otago rivers.
One door closes, another door opens.
A newly established Chinese consulate in Christchurch will significantly strengthen Dunedin's growing trade and tourism links with China, Chinese community representatives believe.
As the start of student Orientation looms next week, Otago University Students' Association staff and volunteers were busy yesterday delivering nearly 4000 "college packs" to Dunedin colleges of residence.
Good numbers of mohua, one of the country's most endangered birds, have been found by the Department of Conservation during a recent annual survey in the Catlins.
Two Otago conservation bodies have welcomed a national report which highlights serious concerns about declining water quality in the nation's rivers and urges more co-ordinated action to protect them.
Better times may lie ahead for trout left stranded in dried-up streams over summer, with policy changes mooted so they can be shifted to safety.
Monty Wright has been reappointed Otago Fish and Game Council chairman and Dave Witherow remains the council's representative on the New Zealand Fish and Game Council.
Thousands of people packed themselves, mostly cheerfully, into the inner-city streets of Dunedin for a colourful Thieves' Alley Market Day on Saturday.
They may not all become All Whites, but Green Island Football Club members enjoyed their own passionate international sporting encounter with a composite overseas team from a visiting cruise ship on Saturday.
A new foundation programme launched as part of an Otago Polytechnic Maori trades training initiative will help counter New Zealand's significant skills shortage, polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker says.
Thirty legal scholars, including people from Australia, South Korea and the United States, have converged on the University of Otago to take part in a two-day discussion on aspects of "adversarialism" in the legal system.
A 56-year-old Nelson man who badly fractured a leg and injured his head when he fell about 5 metres from a track during a tramping trip in South Westland was in Dunedin Hospital last night after a "challenging'' helicopter rescue.
Continuing problems with poverty and ensuring care reaches the "invisible" needy were highlighted in Dunedin yesterday during a discussion, initiated by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett, focusing on a green paper about vulnerable children.