Students arriving for the first time at university can be overwhelmed: numerous people, diverse buildings, the campus to navigate, lots to do and general information overload. A number of strategies are developed to assist ...

Traditionally Maori have been viewed as having no written form of communication prior to the European colonization of New Zealand. The aim of this paper is to determine whether Ta Moko, Maori facial tattooing, can be ...

Based on student responses to a 1999 survey conducted at the University of Otago Science library, traditional tours are not a popular part of the existing user education program. In order to combine an effective learning ...

The Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project investigated the feasibility of managing, curating and sharing University of Otago biodiversity research data. This article discusses how the Project came about and how a mixed ...

We report the development and piloting of an evaluative instrument and process for monitoring the environmental literacy (EL) of undergraduate students in one large research-led university in New Zealand. The instrument ...

The higher education literature reveals the highly subjective nature of thinking about the roles of higher education and its teachers with respect to ‘education for sustainability’. We used Q methodology to help to clarify ...

Māori (Indigenous New Zealand) university graduates are role models for educational success and are critical for the social and economic wellbeing of Māori whānau (extended family) and communities. In this study, Māori ...

Higher education confers significant private and social benefits. Māori and Pacific peoples are under-represented within New Zealand universities and have poorer labour market outcomes (e.g., lower wages, under-represented ...

This article reflects on the experience of University of Otago librarians as advisors and contributors to an innovative method of creating an academic resource; hacking a textbook to fill a gap in Australasian teaching ...

This article addresses the important questions that higher education institutions ask concerning their impact on their students’ sustainability-related attributes ‘How do our students’ worldviews change as they experience ...