Dunedin the New Milan?

Posted 2:35pm Sunday 11th July 2010

  Two Dunedin fashion graduates will compete on the international fashion design stage, after being selected to contend at the prestigious Mittelmoda Fashion Awards. Sophie Brooke Hardy and Roxanna Zamani will travel to Gorizia in northeast Italy at the end of June, and the Read more...

University to compete with diabetics, cancer kids, puppies.

Posted 1:19pm Sunday 11th July 2010

The Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has indicated that universities will have to rely more on charitable donations, commercialisation, and foreign student fees for funding when the 2010 Budget is announced. Joyce says there is a limit to how much taxpayers could support the tertiary Read more...

Otago Study: Limit Teens’ TV Time

Posted 4:00am Monday 28th June 2010

Researchers from the University of Otago have published a study that found young people who viewed more television tended to have poorer relationships with friends and family. This is perhaps the 1, 045, 874th study of this kind.   The study involved 3 043 New Zealand adolescents aged 14 Read more...

University forced to sell kidney to get by

Posted 3:38am Monday 10th May 2010

University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Sir Professor David Skegg is pushing for the Government to invest more in universities, saying New Zealand institutions are likely to lose high calibre staff and students to Australia if funding continues as it is. The University of Otago has a strong Read more...