Critic waited for a hole to appear in our briefs page before reporting that the University of Otago has appointed a new Deputy Vice Chancellor to replace the newly announced Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne.
Professor Richard Blaikie, currently a a Professor at the University of Canterbury and Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, will assume the Deputy Vice-Chancellorship in December of this year.
Prof Blaikie is a very distinguished academic, having gained his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, although it must be noted that he has fewer tertiary qualifications than actor James Franco.
University appoints new Deputy Vice-Chancellor
