Worker dies at Perth campus

OUTGOING University of Otago vicechancellor Harlene Hayne has expressed her sympathies after the death of a man when a roof collapsed at Curtin University this week.

Prof Hayne will finish at Otago in April next year and start as vicechancellor at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, later that month.

ABC reported a 23yearold apprentice worker died and two others were injured after a glass roof collapsed at a construction site at Curtin University on Tuesday.

‘‘Prof Hayne, like all of the community at Otago, sends her condolences to the family of the young man who died, and all of the Curtin community who are grieving,’’ a University of Otago statement said yesterday.