Students at the University of Otago dental school will soon have the latest high-technology "ultimate patients" to practise on - 73 dental mannequins which always open wide and never complain.
The University of Otago Students Association (OUSA) says it will be expecting the university to be more involved in planning off-campus events such as the Undie 500, now the High Court has upheld the institution's legal right to discipline students under its code of conduct.
Almost 30% of Otago Polytechnic staff who responded to this year's work environment survey believed their workloads and stress levels were unacceptably high.
University of Otago staff are mourning the death of a former colleague, Prof Sir Don Beaven.
Otago Polytechnic has joined others around New Zealand strenuously opposing a Government proposal to stop them offering degree level education.
University of Otago special collections librarian Dr Donald Kerr does not remember how he came up with the idea of an exhibition about banned and censored books, but the reaction from those to whom he mentioned the idea confirmed the exhibition would be popular.
The years Keith Park spent in Dunedin may not have marked him as a future saviour of the free world. But that period of his life is keenly remembered, reports Allison Rudd.
They came, they rode, they conquered.
Alcohol advertising and sponsorship have been banned from University of Otago campuses and from university-organised events, wherever they are held.
The University of Otago "did not want to be the behaviour police" but believed it had the responsibility and the authority to denounce student behaviour serious enough to affect its reputation, the High Court at Dunedin heard yesterday.
The mother living in a rented toxic Dunedin property wants out.
Ten staff have been affected by a staffing review at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
Foodstuffs has dropped its 5c charge for supermarket bags at all its South Island New World supermarkets, citing "customer annoyance at the checkouts".
Dunedin's RSA choir will not be singing at next year's Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli in Turkey after all.
The Dunedin art community and students are rallying to try to save positions under threat at Otago Polytechnic's School of Art.
Otago University Students Association president Edwin Darlow is calling for comments on whether the organisation should reduce its shareholding in the Unipol gymnasium and contribute $1 million towards a new facility.
A quick and low-cost intestinal examination commonly performed in doctors' surgeries in his native United States could save lives in New Zealand, Roxburgh GP Dr Eric Wegener believes.
Lion Nathan wants urgent talks with the University of Otago on how its ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorship will affect two contracts already in place.
A Dunedin woman who endured sexual abuse for 20 years says she is "absolutely disgusted" ACC wants to make it more difficult for survivors to access ACC-funded counselling.
The Otago University Students Association (OUSA) has decided to go ahead with seeking a ruling from the High Court on the legality of the University of Otago's code of student conduct, despite the student at the centre of the case withdrawing.
