NEW ZEALAND
A new post-graduate internship programme to be set up by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology will create 150 new intern positions...Read More

April 2009 tertiary education enrolments snapshot...Read More

This report examines historical enrolment data to analyse the association between the economic cycle and participation in senior secondary school and in tertiary education...Read More

TEU president, Tom Ryan, has sent a strongly worded message to the Australia-based private company behind what is being billed as the ‘NZ Higher Education Summit’. ..Read More (scroll down)

A drop in the number of international students has contributed to a projected $1.6 million deficit for Lincoln University this year. ...Read More

TEU’s submission to the Tertiary Education Commission on the reporting of PBRF scores concludes that tertiary institutions should not have access to either the quality categories or the component scores of individuals....Read More

The Neurological Foundation of New Zealand awarded more than $800,000 in research grants, travel grants and scholarships for its July 2009 funding round...Read More

Anne Salmond: Open entry for Maori a near-miss...Read More and more here

AUSTRALIA
Australian women are more likely to be enrolled in university than men...Read More, more on women in science here

Education Cooperation Programme (ICI-ECP) Cooperation in higher education and training between EU and Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea...Read More

Practice-research engagement helps universities become more relevant to societies...Read More

IT'S cognitive misers in the audience who make science communication a hard sell...Read More

SCHOLARSHIPS worth scores of millions of dollars should be rolled into a Colombo plan mark II...Read More

The dangers of relying on numerical metrics have never been clearer...Read More


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India hikes science budget despite slowdown...Read More

The humanities are in the same state financial markets were in before they crashed....Read More

After long behind-the-scenes political skirmishes, 150 governments attending the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education in Paris last week unanimously adopted a communiqué acknowledging higher education as a 'public good'...Read More and more on the UNESCO conference here, American perspective here

Private universities have been expanding rapidly worldwide ...Read More

Francis Collins, Leader of Genome Project, is chosen to direct NIH ...Read More

Vice-chancellors are frustrated at the failure of Commonwealth education ministers to reflect adequately the outcome of pioneering discussions ...Read More

At a time when law-school graduates are facing greater debt and fewer job opportunities, the University of Miami School of Law has offered to pay accepted students to stay away...Read More

A year after its launch, ResearchGATE, a professional and social networking website for the world's researchers, has signed up more than 80,000 members and become the preferred communication platform of three scientific organisations...Read More

Universities are expected to experience some stress but be more sheltered than other sectors from the global recession, says a new report on higher education by Moody's International Public Finance. ..Read More, analysis here

Report says new universities are constrained by the priorities of business...Read More

Researchers have received confirmation that they will be rewarded for engaging with the public in the forthcoming research excellence framework, raising the prospect of funding being linked to articles for newspapers or television work....Read More

Social sciences have advanced little because inquiry and discovery are stifled by 'theory' and 'the search for order' in the academy....Read More

Universities that do not fundamentally review their activities during the prevailing economic crisis "will not exist in the future" ...Read More

A survey finds that even though the public doesn’t always agree with scientists on moral issues, American believe financial support for new research is vital....Read More

German Research Institute Accuses MIT, UMass, and Whitehead of Wrongdoing on Patent...Read More

Top nations in neuroscience and behaviour by citation impact..Read More

A global "redistribution of brains" may take place as academic job security diminishes and the world's education superpowers lose ground to emerging nations as a result of the economic crisis...Read More

Some universities are more focused on what they can take from society than what they can give, a leading educationist has suggested...Read More

The Swedish Presidency of the European Union took effect last Wednesday and major reforms are likely in the way research is organised in the European Union...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Bayer Science & Education Foundation launches new round of funding...Read More

AUSTRALIA
PEAK university bodies' claims that education is the country's third largest export earner are "grossly misleading" as up to half the headline $15 billion figure can come from overseas student earnings in Australia, a leading academic says...Read More

RESEARCHERS have welcomed the federal government's $1.1 billion upgrade of the country's landmark research infrastructure...Read More

IN theory, science is a failure. In practice, it works; in product, it soars. Yet because scientific product depends on practice, which in turn depends on theory, it is vital that scientists understand how and why science fails...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
In 2007, the Waikato Innovation Park, with $1 million of funding from the Tertiary Education Commission, set up the Agbiotech Innovators Academy (AIA)...Read More

The State of Education series is an annual publication...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Multidisciplinary research – an essential driver for innovation...Read More

Universities have been urged to start reviewing their research portfolios to assess the social and economic impact of their work in preparation for the forthcoming research excellence framework...Read More

The Unesco Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge is publishing a Research Report, Systems of Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Changing dynamics, that explores rapid changes in global knowledge systems and describes nearly a decade of 'research on research' by the Forum...Read More

The effort to improve German universities still has a long way to go...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Professor John Morrow has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at The University of Auckland....Read More

Education Minister Anne Tolley says there is no more money to fund extra places in polytechnics during the recession...Read More

Tough economic times are forcing the Government to consider whether student support payments for people aged over 65 are a sound investment...Read More

Maori Affairs and Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples strongly reiterated his challenge to universities, to consider how they might help to overcome systemic disadvantage to Maori in tertiary education...Read More

New Zealand and Spanish science researchers will benefit from a new travel grant programme between the two countries, Research, Science and Technology Minister Wayne Mapp has announced...Read More

AUSTRALIA
LANGUAGES should be central to education, not peripheral...Read More

RESEARCH funding needs to be better directed in larger, single grants to cross-disciplinary groupings, the Australian Academy of Science says...Read More

PATRICIA Easteal, a University of Canberra legal academic, has accepted a "virtual sabbatical" at Britain's Durham University in what is believed to be a world first...Read More

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Association of Commonwealth Universities: June Bulletin...Read More (pdf)

The UK's Met Office has had its funding for climate research slashed by a quarter...Read More

The world’s main economies are looking to “green growth” as the way forward out of the current crisis...Read More

Support for the arts after concern at funding ringfenced for science and engineering subjects...Read More, more

Academics must learn lessons from industry to prepare students for a harsh new world...Read More

Multimillion-pound budget cuts could see whole departments wiped out...Read More

The notion of the ivory tower is under threat as academics embrace links with industry as a central tenet of their profession - and not just in the hard sciences...Read More

Researchers have become experts in "stealth research" - taking money with the promise of a specific goal and then using it to support a wider "space of play"....Read More

AUSTRALIA
The Federal Budget’s launch of the transition to fully funded research has been strongly welcomed by the sector. ..Read More

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British universities will lose their leading international standing unless they become much more radical in their use of new technology...Read More

The world economic crisis has already begun to affect innovation and research in the better-off countries but this may not be all bad news says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the association of the world's 30 leading economies...Read More

Last week, the government created the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which will have responsibility for higher and further education policy. Nobody would disagree that our universities and colleges are as much about the cultural bedrock of our society as the competitiveness of the economy. So why bring them into a department whose core remit is Britain's economic development?...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
“Minister of Māori affairs, Dr Pita Sharples is right to open up a debate about the low rate of progression by Māori students into universities”...Read More, more, more, more, more

Links between Spain and The University of Auckland will be further strengthened when King Juan Carlos 1 and Queen Sofia pay a visit early next week...Read More

Hon. Bill English, speaking at the ITPNZ conference earlier this week... "restraint (was) now permanent”...Read More

Research by the University of Otago, Christchurch indicates there may be disparities in the quality of public hospital care for Maori inpatients in some clinical areas....Read More

AUSTRALIA
Analysis hits critical mass...Read More

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First Secretary Lord Mandelson answers a series of written questions put to him by Times Higher Education...Read More

Once lauded as incubators of high-tech jobs, science parks find themselves struggling in the new financial environment....Read More

A new expectation is making the list of must-have abilities for today’s students: global competence....Read More

The British Library...has today launched the public version of its 19th century British Library Newspaper website...Read More

A multinational journal giant is understood to be courting vice- chancellors in an effort to win their support for an alternative to open-access institutional research repositories....Read More

Arts and humanities researchers are outperforming their colleagues in the sciences both in terms of their presence on the world stage and quality of their output...Read More

Because food is a basic necessity, the agriculture sector is showing more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries...Read More

Unesco group calls for global ombudsman and index to bolster academic values...Read More

Universities in Africa have been "hollowed out" by the steady stream of scientists moving to developed countries...Read More

With the accessibility of the Internet intersecting with the growth of interdisciplinary study, scientists are now reading a much wider array of journals than ever before. ...Read More

Even the stingiest of alumni are more likely to donate if they're solicited through a personal phone call, a new study finds...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
...public and education sectors to provide a framework to see New Zealand out of the recession...Read More

AUTRALIA
AN addiction to readings is stifling literary creativity...Read More

MEDICAL research is increasingly dependent on broadly based collaboration and access to sophisticated infrastructure...Read More

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Mr Obama’s status as the Web 2.0 president...Read More