NEW ZEALAND
Universities strongly back findings in a report on the economic benefits of publicly-funded research produced by the Government’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman...Read More and report here (pdf)

Universities have welcomed the opportunity to influence the Government’s priorities for research, science and technology by responding to the just-released feedback document...Read More

Maori Academic Leadership: Capacity, Capability and Character...Read More

New Zealand and China have signed an education agreement which will enhance research, science and technology links....Read More

The government is currently setting priorities for research, science and technology and is seeking feedback from the sector...Read More and

Taskforce to review Crown Research Institutes...Read More

The Currency of knowledge; or, the PBRF in ruins...Read More

More university graduates could end up on the dole queue with the number of graduate jobs on offer cut by up to a half in a year...Read More

New Zealand's biggest science provider, AgResearch, says it is having to find work in other countries to meet Government demands for a 9 percent dividend...Read More

The Riddet Institute has established “The Earle Food Research Fund,” a $1 million scholarship fund to support postgraduate students working on research which contributes to its Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) Research Programme...Read More

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But most academics now describe their research as applied or 'user-inspired'...Read More

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars...Read More

Most networks of excellence fall apart once EU funding dries...Read More

Historians separate fact from fiction, keeping politicians honest and clearing the way for better thinking...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The release of the draft Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) for the period 2010-2015 for consultation reveals limited alignment with the nine-point plan contained in the university briefing document to the current Government...Read More

Tertiary education representatives have spoken out against a government bill aiming to make cuts and structural changes to polytechnic boards...Read More

Hamilton-based Soda is a new breed of independent incubator focused squarely on entrepreneurs rather than IP...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Universities face staff shortage as VCs question report on academic dissatisfaction...Read More

AUSTRALIA cannot continue to recruit Chinese and Indian students at such unsustainable levels...Read More, more and in UK

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Are we witnessing a key moment in the reworking of the global higher education & research landscape?...Read More, more, more

What innovation policy for the EU? The first-ever European Innovation Summit investigates...Read More, more

IMPACT: A Proposal for Realizing the Economic Potential of University Research...Read More, more(pdf)

Many academics fear that new funding proposals will ignore the value of their research...Read More

Nobel in Economics Goes to Scholars at Indiana, Berkeley...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The quality of education at university and polytech level is coming under scrutiny, as the financial squeeze goes on...Read More

Student-loan debt will grow by an average of $875 million a year to a total of more than $20 billion by 2022, new projections show...Read More

A new research centre at The University of Auckland that aims to develop treatments for brain disease will be launched on 6 November 2009...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Deakin India Research Initiative...collaborating with Indian companies, research institutions and universities to train PhD students in India...Read More

The central ethical premise of universities has changed fundamentally...Read More

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Universities need to transform in various ways if they are to respond effectively to the socio-economic and technological demands of today's world...Read More

Are Chinese universities on par with the world?...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The New Zealand Institute expects to release results next month from its study into the scientific research commercialisation conundrum...Read More

Crown Research Institute Scion today announced a positive financial result for the company of $2.3 million net profit...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Three Victorian universities plan to disassemble their internal data centres and consolidate their computer power in a new facility in Melbourne's South East...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría hailed the Nobel committee’s decision to award its annual Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, calling it ''a powerful vote for peace and co-operation between nations''...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Canterbury University is to raise up to $100 million from retail investors to upgrade its facilities to attract international students...Read More

The nation's biggest state-owned science company, AgResearch has posted an after-tax loss of $754,000, in the year to June 30...Read More

The University of Auckland continues to be among the top 100 universities in the world, according to the latest world university rankings published this week by the Times Higher Education...Read More, more and University world rankings here, here, here, here

A $2.6 million budget blowout for Canterbury University's NZi3 Innovation Institute...Read More

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The era of US dominance in higher education, like the era of the expanding American middle class, seems to be over...Read More

Top countries in space sciences...Read More

Managing university estates during the credit crunch...Read More

India's increasing productivity may lead to a 'new geography' of research worldwide...Read More

Leaner Times at Harvard...Read More

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Otago research attracts $18 million in grants...Read More, more, more, more

New Zealand needs to do more to keep its bright young scientists here, says Young Scientist of the Year John Watt...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Draft legislation to enshrine academic freedom and limit ministerial interference...Read More

The PhD as a job ticket needs a rethink...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Striving for excellence in universities to achieve a new renaissance is the only choice, says report to European Commission...Read More

Assessing the progress and failings of our societies requires a far broader set of measures than just economic indicators...Read More

How Research Can Inform Policy...Read More

Two technologies that revolutionized science, computing and communication have secured their developers a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics...Read More

EU to invest billions in energy research...Read More

Half of EU research budget should be spent on frontier science, say science advisers...Read More, more

Oxford University faces "grave" risks and needs more than £1bn investment in the next decade...Read More