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"Slipshod thinking" that sees universities as "engines of innovation and economic development" is undermining the most important contributions they make to society...Read More

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Good, but not yet good enough was how New Zealand’s eight universities greeted the largest ever annual investment by the Marsden Fund with $54 million to be outlaid over three years on 91 new research projects...Read More, Marsden recipients, Otago Recipients

AUSTRALIA
INNOVATION Minister Kim Carr today will flag the possibility that researchers who win grants from public funding agencies will have to make their results freely available over the internet...Read More

THE commercialisation arms of universities have criticised the Cutler review for overlooking their role in research and development...Read More

UNIVERSITIES may need to look beyond their commercialisation offices to succeed in technology transfer, a study suggests...Read More

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Tertiary-education policy is increasingly important on national agendas. The widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy...OECD Report Read More

LERU has released a new position paper today warning of the dangers of "loose thinking" about the role of the universities in present-day society...Read More and reaction in Australia.

Two marketing researchers, at New York University and the University of Florida, have published a study that contradicts earlier findings that business schools shortchange students by focusing on academic research instead of practical business skills...Read More

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Evaluation of the R&D tax credit: Baseline Study. In February 2008 KPMG carried out two baseline studies to assess firm behaviour in regard to research and development (R&D). This was before the introduction of the tax credit...Read More

AUSTRALIA
“The Government’s response to the review of the National Innovation System is needed urgently,” Go8 Chair, Professor Alan Robson said today...Read More

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The EU's higher education reform agenda and the growing tendency to consider universities as mere producers of public and private goods is undermining their fundamental educational role, a group of European universities has warned...Read More

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The Stanford School of Engineering announced the debut of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), the pilot of a free online service that provides Stanford's popular introduction to computer science and other computer science and electrical engineering courses...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Figures released in the OECD publication Education at a Glance 2008 confirm New Zealand’s lack of investment in student support, and the high cost borne by students and their families...Read More

Association of University Staff academic vice-president, Dr Grant Duncan, will today urge tertiary-education staff not to support any future research-assessment schemes, especially those based on bibliometrics...Read More

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Comments in a recent survey from vice-chancellors from around the world, complaining of lack of funding and resources, have a familiar ring...Read More

Humanities and the social sciences are not having a sufficient impact on public policy-making, the British Academy (BA) warned today...Read More and more

Last year we carried a series of reports on the global distribution of student mobility. While the US and the UK had the lion’s share of this market, with 22% and 12% respectively, we noted China had made big gains...Read More

If Europe is to be a leader in the global knowledge economy – and if universities are to produce the top-level research needed to achieve this – comprehensive reform of higher education is the order of the day...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Professor Richard Blaikie, of the University of Canterbury's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has been appointed Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology...Read More

The OECD publication Education at a Glance 2008 released today contains content which highlights the need for increased investment in the New Zealand university system, according to New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee chair Professor Roger Field...Read More, more, more, and more

AUSTRALIA
POSITIONING Australia to deal with a changing and competitive world is inherently dependent on sound innovation policy. Australian universities have a key role to play...Read More

In what will be very welcome news to the public research sector, the review of the national innovation system undertaken by a panel headed by Dr Terry Cutler has recommended an urgent restoration of public funding levels for research in universities and government research agencies...Read More and for report here


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European academics are preparing to gather at a high-level conference to discuss the problems caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population...Read More

The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 started out with the best of intentions. By clearing away the thicket of conflicting rules and regulations at various federal agencies, it set out to encourage universities to patent and license results of federally financed research...Read More

As long as there is no integrated market for innovation in the EU and until academic research receives better funding, the EU is doomed to miss its ambitious targets on R&D, argues Brussels-based think tank Bruegel...Read More

Are universities ever right to accept money from the tobacco industry for research or is it always tainted somehow? The issue has been around for decades but a recent spat in America has given it a new airing. ..Read More

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business announced ambitious plans Monday to develop a network of deep partnerships and branch campuses — what the dean calls a “physical presence of real scope and scale” – in Dubai, London, New Delhi, Shanghai and St. Petersburg...Read More

Richard Price, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, is blasting an e-mail plea to every academic mailing list and blog that he can find asking academics to sign up for his new online directory of researchers worldwide...Read More

Kent State University is offering financial bonuses to professors if they help student retention numbers and attract more research dollars, an incentive usually given to school presidents and top administrators...Read More

In parallel to European Commission moves to present a strategic EU framework for international science and technology cooperation this autumn, the US science association has announced the establishment of a Centre for Science Diplomacy, which it hopes will help change public attitudes towards the US around the world...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Measuring up – How does the New Zealand’s tertiary education system compare? each year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes Education at a Glance, a collection of indicators..Read More and more

AUSTRALIA
THE Cutler Review of Innovation yesterday strongly backed the university sector's demands for government to fully fund research, but Canberra has signalled extra money will depend on universities collaborating and specialising in research...Read More

THE push to improve research performance has become a "manic obsession" with objectionable consequences for research culture, according to Monash law professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy...Read More

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For years the US has seen India as a lucrative source of students for its universities, but now one Indian institution at least may be about to turn the tables...Read More


A website that aims to combat the "isolation" often felt by early career researchers, and to help them forge links with their peers, has been launched by two graduate researchers at Durham University...Read More

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MORE than $1 billion is spent worldwide in the attempt to measure and plan research but the exercise is cumbersome and the result can be disappointing, according to Jay Katzen of publisher Elsevier...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The system used to direct research funding to New Zealand's tertiary institutions has received a thumbs-up from an independent review, along with warnings that change and more funding are needed...Read More

AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA'S bid to become a world leader in stem cell science has been plunged into turmoil by the mass resignation yesterday of the seven-strong board of the country's premier research organisation in the field...Read More

AUSTRALIA'S richest research fellowships have been opened to overseas talent, ending the "brain drain" fears of the Howard government...Read more

THE ART OF INNOVATION: My aim in innovation is not to flood the country with shiny gadgets, but to change the culture.Of course we will need new technologies to answer the challenges and grasp the opportunities that lie before us...Read More

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The EU executive has launched a public consultation on ICT research and innovation, asking industry, experts and policymakers to help it overhaul the bloc's agenda in this field...Read More

The EU executive wants to promote more coordinated research on sea and ocean resources in a bid to "reconcile" the competitiveness of Europe's maritime industries and the protection of marine ecosystems...Read More

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) has unveiled new funding for international collaboration -- MISTI Global Seed Funds -- that supports faculty research worldwide and encourages student participation...Read More

North American universities are the clear winners in the latest edition of of The Web Ranking of World Universities, published by the Spanish National Research Council ...Read More

One-third of graduates are receiving no financial benefit from their degree as young people drawn in by Labour’s mass expansion of universities see the value of studying decline for the first time...Read More

China today is the third most prolific patent-filing country in the world after the United States and Japan. The State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) received more than 694,000 patent applications in 2007...Read More

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AUSTRALIAN higher education's first comprehensive gauge of research excellence moved a step closer to reality this week with a call to universities for voluntary information on their researchers' publication records...Read More

Outstanding researchers from Australia and around the world will be attracted to work in Australian universities under a new Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme...Read More

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How many Americans does it take to produce a university? No, it's not an academic joke, it's a population-based analysis of the recently published 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities...Read More

Pop goes Cambridge. The esteemed and ancient university is trying to escape its elitist image. But will a mention on EastEnders do it?...Read More

It’s a brave new world for tenure-track faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs these days. New and aspiring professors enter an academy in which the traditional boundaries defining faculty work, the “Big 3” of teaching, research and service..Read More

A delegation from the University of Johannesburg under leadership of Adam Habib (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Advancement) recently undertook a learning expedition to Chinese Higher Education Institutions, exploring the potential for research collaborations and partnerships...Read More

Dual-career issues are growing in importance in higher education in America. More than 70% of faculty are in dual-career relationships...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand produces the best universities with less money and fewer people, new world rankings show. Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes an annual list of the top 500 universities in the world....Read more

AUSTRALIA
A Federal Government-backed review that details the state of innovation and research and development spend in Australia has finally been delivered to Innovation Minister Kim Carr...Read more

MACQUARIE University has joined the small club of Australian institutions that require academics to make their research papers freely available over the Internet...Read more

The intent of this page is to provide a quick, efficient access to the over 21,000 records which constitute the ERA journal ranking list...Read more

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has today launched a consultation period on a draft journal rankings list, one of the indicators that will be used on a discipline-specific basis to evaluate research as part of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative...Read more and more on the proces of ranking.

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This research considered the implications for interdisciplinary research of using bibliometric analysis - that is, how frequently research is cited by other researchers - in research assessment in the context of HEFCE's current work to develop a new research assessment and funding framework to replace the Research Assessment Exercise after 2008...Read more

The OECD is developing a feasibility study for assessment of higher education outcomes that will allow comparison between higher education institutions across countries... Read more

Report investigating league tables and their impact on higher education institutions (HEIs) in England finds that the influence of league tables is increasing both nationally and internationally, and cannot be ignored despite serious methodological limitations...Read more

Intensified global competition has forced companies to innovate and develop commercially viable products and services faster. This new volume brings together the empirical evidence on the internationalisation of business research and development...Read more

The last two decades have seen a significant growth in the mobility of higher education programmes and providers through physical and virtual modes of delivery...Read more

Many commentators and observers believe that the time is right and the sector is ready for a national debate in the UK on the nature of the doctorate, given the multiple drivers for change, multiple agendas at work, and the multiple stakeholders with an interest in both the debate and the outcome...Read more