Attempts to revoke the life membership of former Otago University Students Association president Edwin Darlow were unsuccessful on campus this week.
A 23-year-old man's driver's licence was automatically suspended for 28 days after a police laser unit clocked his car travelling at 177kmh on the Dunedin Southern Motorway, near Fairfield, at the...
Any changes arising from proposed academic restructuring at the University of Otago will not be "sudden" because the university is "definitely not in a financial crisis", Prof Sir David Skegg said yesterday.
More than 300 pupils, parents and staff joined forces at the Kaikorai School yesterday, raising more than $1500 for a school in Haiti which was devastated by the massive earthquake in January.
Through restoration work, a beautiful old building at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum is emerging from what was once a sagging collection of bricks which engineers had warned was in danger of collapse.
Cannabis is likely to resurface as a controversial topic at the next Otago University Students Association Student General Meeting, one of the association's main policy-forming bodies.
Social work was "absolutely vital for the wellbeing of the country" and the social work and community development department should be continued within the University of Otago, a recent curriculum review report urges.
What do advocating the creation of a "gilded statue" of comedian Woody Allen, introducing a "Drugs Bomb and Festival of Speed" and even building a $250,000 sky tower have in common?
New Zealand is still having problems transferring technology from universities and other public research organisations into the private sector, Prof Sir Peter Gluckman says.
The texting revolution has damaged the overall ability of New Zealand teenagers to communicate through the spoken or written word, communication studies lecturer Meredith Caisley says.
New Zealanders would be healthier, wealthier and wiser if they improved their spoken language skills, communication studies lecturer Meredith Caisley says.
Dunedin Gasworks Museum organisers are "delighted" the museum has been chosen to host an open day this week, enabling people to respond to a proposal to revitalise South Dunedin.
The Government should be urging KiwiRail, including its Hillside workshops in Dunedin, to tender for a project to build $375 million worth of trains for Auckland, Labour leader Phil Goff says.
University of Otago scholar Emeritus Prof Jim Flynn is urging university students to read more works of great literature to overcome a "love-of-reading deficit" arising from teenage culture.
Dunedin historian Peter Entwisle is surprised and "shocked" the facades of several historic city buildings could be demolished, despite their protection as part of the city's South Princes St townscape precinct.
When snowboarder Tim Young unexpectedly flipped upside down during a jump and could see nothing but sky, instead of the ground rising to meet him, he knew things were going to end badly.
Plant hunter Dan Hinkley was recently in Dunedin. He talked to John Gibb.
New Zealand is viewed overseas as "hugely progressive" for its moves, through the Family Court, to improve outcomes for children during parental separation, Prof Gordon Harold says.
A successful presentation at Parliament this week by the University of Otago's O-Zone research group was a "really big step forward" for the group, its convener, Dr Jacob Edmond, of the English department, said.
A powerful new vaccine therapy for colorectal cancer is likely to emerge from "highly promising" University of Otago research, which is moving closer to human clinical trials.