The University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic scooped nearly 25% of national teaching excellence awards in a series of "remarkably good" results over the past five years.
Otago University biochemistry senior teaching fellow Tony Zaharic, Otago Polytechnic's Dunedin School of Art head Prof Leoni Schmidt, and Peter Bilous, a Wanaka-based polytechnic senior lecturer, are the latest winners of sustained excellence awards this year.
Prof Schmidt said Otago Polytechnic staff members involved in a wide range of disciplines had won teaching excellence awards for the past five years in a row - a total of six awards.
Otago University staff received seven awards over the same period, including the Prime Minister's Supreme Award, and $30,000, which senior law lecturer Selene Mize won in 2009.
Dr Peter Schwartz, of the university pathology department, won the supreme award in 2003.
Prof Schmidt, whose research interests include contemporary drawing and art history, said the series of awards showed the two Dunedin tertiary institutions were providing consistently good teaching.
Associate Prof Rachel Spronken-Smith, who heads the university Higher Education Development Centre (HEDC), said the "remarkably good" outcome in the Ako Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence awards reflected positively on Dunedin's tertiary education industry.
