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comment by Célia Mendes | 9:19 am, 11/10/2011
I invite you to check your sources. The person quoted does not work at the Department of Languages and Cultures.
comment by Jessica | 5:48 am, 11/10/2011
I took HSFY and Portuguese at different times. Part of the reason HSFY is such a large programme is because the papers it provides are necessary for many different degrees, especially any of the health science papers. I have enjoyed my Portuguese classes much more than my health sci ones. Yes, the enrollments should probably be higher to be more cost effective. But now the University of Otago has forced anyone in Australasia who wants to study Portuguese to go overseas to learn it. I was incredibly happy to hear that Otago University was the only university in all of NZ (then all of Australasia)to offer Portuguese after first year when I decided I wanted to move to Portugal after completing a BSc(Hon) in Chemistry. And now I am disappointed, that noone else who is yet to leave the country cannot learn this language before they go.
comment by Max Hardy | 8:34 am, 12/09/2011
Quick correction. The proposal does not allow for "sports and recreation services" - only recreation facilities.
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by | 3:17 AM, 17/10/11
John Stansfield worked for a number of non-profit organisations including the Problem Gambling Foundation and sustainability projects on Waiheke Island, he even founded and headed a Department of Non-Profit Studies at Massey for a number of years, before picking up his position at Oxfam New Zealand. An international relief and development programme, Oxfam takes a regional approach to hunger and political rights. The New Zealand office is heavily involved in development and sustainability projects around the Pacific, for example. Georgie Fenwicke talked to John about the response to the drought currently plaguing several Pacific populations and his favourite Oxfam Christmas gift.
by Aimee Gulliver | 2:33 AM, 17/10/11
In our last meeting of the year, the Proctor was very keen to “blow Campus Watch’s trumpet.” We were a bit taken back by this statement, but really what consenting adults get up to in their own time is none of our business.
by Lozz Holding | 2:32 AM, 17/10/11
What a year it has been. The naïve, innocent little first years who joined us in February are now all grown up. In fact it’s hard to believe that less than eight months ago these shameless, grubby little creatures were STI-free, respectable members of society whose parents still loved them.
by Lozz Holding | 2:30 AM, 17/10/11
Unipol Recreation Centre will reopen in the new location of the University Plaza Building on January 23 next year.
by Gregor Whyte | 2:26 AM, 17/10/11
The Otago Daily Times has delivered the first strike in its long-rumoured move to destroy the University of Otago, after the mediocre daily newspaper moved to summarily wipe out the ‘Campus Life’ section of its unpopular website.
