Grant Miller

Complex task of tailoring cohorts

Selection processes that determine who gets to walk through the doors of the Otago Medical School...

Complex task of tailoring cohorts

Students achieving outstanding grades are missing out on selection for Otago University’s medical school. Others get preferential entry. Is the system equitable and what's best for the future of the health workforce?

Quiet over job contract

Quiet over job contract

University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne has declined to say whether she will seek an extension of her contract.

'I knew it was something major'

The ute that crashed ended up on railway tracks, which were accessible to emergency services from...

'I knew it was something major'

The screech of tyres and then a bang alerted a former chief fire officer at Dunedin’s Ravensbourne station to a fatal crash near his house.

Educators feeling the heat

Mainland Air owner Phil Kean with one of the flight school’s planes in the hanger at Dunedin...

Educators feeling the heat

Ongoing uncertainty about how long New Zealand’s border will stay shut and a likely plunge in income are keeping the South’s providers of education for international students on edge.

Ravensbourne Rd reopens after fatal crash

Ravensbourne Rd (SH88) has reopened after an early-morning crash, in which one person died and two suffered moderate injuries.

Wait now two years for dental treatment

The school, which has 70,000 to 80,000 patient visits a year, is viewed as an inexpensive...

Wait now two years for dental treatment

Parents joining the Dunedin dental school’s queue may have to wait up to two years for treatment because of a Covid-19 double whammy.

Hayne agrees to meeting over med school admissions

Hayne agrees to meeting over med school admissions

The University of Otago’s vice-chancellor has agreed to meet students who are seeking answers about possible changes to selection processes for the medical school.

'Trust has been eroded': Meeting to discuss med school admissions

Otago University Medical Students' Association president Anu Kaw said students were distressed...

'Trust has been eroded': Meeting to discuss med school admissions

University of Otago senior leaders have agreed to meet with students who requested urgent discussions about the way students are selected for medical school.

High Court challenge to admissions scheme

The Otago University Students' Association has disaffiliated with the Elohim Bible Academy. Photo...

High Court challenge to admissions scheme

A legal challenge to the way the University of Otago selects students for its medical programme has made it to the High Court.

Med school legal challenge: Plaintiff's name suppressed

The man taking on the University of Otago over its admissions process for medical school will have his identity kept secret until further notice.

Uni vows to fight legal challenge

Uni vows to fight legal challenge

The University of Otago is set to face court action over the way minority groups are given priority for entry into its medical school.

Med school admissions policy to be challenged in court

Students involved in the rort will still also have their applications considered for registration...

Med school admissions policy to be challenged in court

The way Otago University selects students for its medicine programme is set to be challenged in court.

Examinations likely to return to campus in semester two

Polytechnics and universities say institutions received less money from domestic than...

Examinations likely to return to campus in semester two

Most students at the University of Otago appear set to have their semester two examinations on campus, rather than online, if the region is in Alert Level 1 next month.

Festival going ahead with modifications

The importance of an international cultural carnival at the University of Otago may well have been reinforced by this year’s coronavirus challenges.

Affirmative pathways backed

Prof Colin Mantell, of Wanaka, was in charge of an Auckland programme designed to encourage more...

Affirmative pathways backed

A doctor and senior academic who was one of only two Maori men to get into the Otago Medical School’s 1959 intake wonders if recent action to boost admissions from minority groups has been a little...

Physicians’ group condemns cap idea

Physicians’ group condemns cap idea

The idea of caps on students entering the Otago Medical School through equity pathways has "deeply disturbed" a physicians’ advocacy group.

Student bar hours extended

OUSA said the behaviour of the man who removed the rainbow flag during the event at Starters Bar...

Student bar hours extended

Student drinking establishment Starters Bar will be able to stay open until 3am several nights a week, in a move characterised as a special Dunedin trial.

Group 'deeply disturbed' by proposal limiting equity pathways

The idea of capping the number of students entering the Otago Medical School through equity pathways has "deeply disturbed" a physicians advocacy group.

Boozy wrong-way drive ends in licence suspension

Boozy wrong-way drive ends in licence suspension

A motorist who travelled the wrong way on a one-way street in Dunedin last night failed an alcohol breath test.

Van driven into South Dunedin shop front

Van driven into South Dunedin shop front

A vacant shop in South Dunedin was damaged when a motorist drove through the front of the building last night.

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