The University of Otago is taking a "common sense" approach to ward off the arrival of swine flu on campus - ensuring facilities are clean, ensuring soap is available for hand-washing and advising staff and students who have travelled overseas recently to contact a doctor if they feel unwell.
Otago Polytechnic is one of six withdrawing from the national sector organisation in favour of a new grouping.
A University of Otago student will find out today whether he will be expelled for throwing eggs during this year's toga parade, and says he has become a scapegoat.
The University of Otago has revised its 2009 operating surplus downwards by 40%.
The University of Otago will pay a total of $5.602 million for land next to the Forsyth Barr stadium, the university council has been told.
A grant from the Cancer Society of New Zealand will enable two Dunedin scientists to take their research into this country's most common childhood cancer to the next level.
A working party will be set up to try to resolve a timing clash between University of Otago Summer School examinations and student enrolment and orientation events.
An international centre of sporting excellence based at the new Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin is one of many ideas for the facility being explored by a stadium users group.
Following his acquittal on murder charges last week, David Bain technically inherits everything from his late parents' estates - but whether that will happen remains unclear.
A Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) manager has given the tertiary sector a "glimmer of hope" funding might be available to assist with new developments and deferred maintenance.
Otago Polytechnic expects its government funding to drop by $3 million in 2011 - a cut chief executive Phil Ker says will present "a challenge of the highest order".
Tertiary sector leaders say not enough extra funding has been allocated to institutions facing roll growth, spiralling costs and pressure to increase staff salaries.
A University of Otago study programme where older students mentor first-years is being expanded, following a successful trial last year.
After an anxious few months, Dunedin scientists are welcoming confirmation of Government funding for a new collaborative genomics facility.
Mortgagee property sales are increasing in Otago, with predictions of more to come as homeowners struggle with a shrinking job market and more pressure from banks on those who fail to keep up with payments.
Rowing New Zealand will establish a high performance centre in Dunedin.
Otago Polytechnic is mixing education with business at a new facility in George St.
When Claire Steele graduates from the University of Otago today, she will be one of many thousands of women to have done so in the university's 140 years.
After living abroad for almost 55 years, retired Anglican priest Dr Paul Oestreicher has returned to his home town of Dunedin for the best of reasons - to receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree today from his alma mater, the University of Otago. Reporter Allison Rudd talks to a man who overcame the persecution of his childhood and rejected a lifetime of resentment in favour of the Biblical principle of loving his neighbours - and his enemies.
Police have vowed to pursue "with vigour" a group of young people who terrorised an elderly couple in a campervan at Warrington Domain at the weekend - and a cellphone found at the scene could be the key to the investigation.
