EVERYWHERE ELSE
Last year, when the Modern Language Association held its annual conference, the theme was “The Humanities at Work in the World.” This year the unofficial theme is “Who’s getting work at all?”...Read More
This was the year when degree standards were questioned and financial gloom descended on universities, lightened only by spectacular success in the long-awaited results of the research assessment exercise...Read More
Monday, December 29, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
XMAS BREAKRE//search will be taking a break over Xmas & starting up in the New Year. To all readers Meri Kirihimete me nga mihi o te Tau Hou.
Monday, December 22, 2008
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The work of many full-time researchers has been ignored in the recent assessment of universities...Read More, more, alternate ranking here
Institutional performance of universities and their academic staff and students is a very topical issue in many countries...Read More
European ambitions: towards a ‘multi-dimensional global university ranking’...Read More
The work of many full-time researchers has been ignored in the recent assessment of universities...Read More, more, alternate ranking here
Institutional performance of universities and their academic staff and students is a very topical issue in many countries...Read More
European ambitions: towards a ‘multi-dimensional global university ranking’...Read More
Thursday, December 18, 2008
NEW ZEALAND
A total of $3.3 million was distributed throughout the country in the latest lottery board grants round for health research...Read More
The NZ/FRG Scientific and Technological Co-operation (STC) Agreement Programme is a sub-programme of the ISAT Linkages Fund...Read More
Four briefing papers from the research, science and technology sector were released publicly at 1pm today...Read More
The Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has released the Briefing to the Incoming Minister (BIM) from the Tertiary Education Commission...Read More
Universities’ case for increased public investment has been recognised in education agency briefing documents to the incoming government...Read More
News that the government is undecided about whether to cut costs in the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) does not allow tertiary institutions to plan cohesively...Read More
Profile and Trends is a primary information resource on New Zealand’s tertiary education system covering participation, achievement, resourcing, capability, research and much more...Read More
The University of Otago Council has elected Stuart McLauchlan as its new Pro-Chancellor...Read More
Roger France, a prominent chartered accountant and company director, has been elected Chancellor of The University of Auckland...Read More
Wellington company director Dr Russell Ballard has been elected to replace Nigel Gould as Massey University Chancellor...Read More
Two of New Zealand’s leading research organisations, The University of Auckland and AgResearch, have announced a major new collaboration to improve human health through diet...Read More
Two years into its life KAREN has exceeded expectations, with REANNZ arguably now the government’s expert agency for smart and efficient purchasing of broadband, according to REANNZ CEO, Donald Clark...Read More
The Australian Medical Council (AMC) has awarded the University of Otago’s Faculty of Medicine the maximum period of accreditation possible...Read More
The Royal Society of New Zealand, our national science academy, has established a popular science book prize...Read More
“The $1.8 million bail out of AgResearch by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology highlights the need for the government to provide more stable funding for the country’s crown research institutes,” says PSA National Secretary Richard...Read More
AUSTRALIA
HIGHER education is set for a $7 billion overhaul aimed at boosting graduate numbers by 330,000, tightening quality controls, merging some regional universities and turbo-charging research and development...Read More and reaction here and here and report here (2.55mb)
Graphic feed: Australia’s dependence (2007-2008) upon foreign students..View More
The newsletter informs the sector and stakeholders about the Australian Government's higher education policies and programs...Read More
The University of Western Australia is moving towards a new framework for undergraduate and postgraduate study, designed to equip students with a global outlook and a community conscience...Read More
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr today announced $580 million would be fast-tracked into universities through the Education Investment Fund...Read More
VICTORIA'S nine universities have signed a breakthrough deal to co-operate in promoting access for indigenous students in a move that could be emulated nationally...Read More
THE flagship grant program of the Australian Research Council should radically be redesigned, with emphasis on a large number of low-cost grants to train PhD students...Read More
THREE Australian universities have established a lucrative business selling curriculums in the Middle East...Read More
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The Association of American Universities offered six recommendations to President-elect Obama...Read More and more
Cambridge is UK's top research university in RAE...Read More, more, more, more, more and more
Few higher education institutions around the world appear to have escaped the collapse of financial markets...Read More, more , more, more , more and more on comparison with Great Depression
MLA reports 21% drop in positions in English and foreign languages -- steepest decline in 34 years association has collected openings...Read More
Academic blogs dramatically extend the boundaries of conventional peer review and academic readership...Read More
When "superstar" academic scientists die, their collaborators experience a significant and permanent decline in productivity...Read More
Universities across Africa are running out of academics...Read More and more
Research to be conducted at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which will employ about 1,000 scientists, will have applications in medicine, materials science, and astronomy...Read More
China has upped the ante on the education revolution. Between 1998 and 2005, the number of students enrolled in tertiary education in China rose by an extraordinary 4.4 times to 15.6 million...Read More
Higher education in OECD countries faces new challenges, including from gender imbalances and social inequity to demographic changes resulting from migration...Read More
A study for the Royal Society of Chemistry has found that although 72% of the women surveyed intended to pursue a university career in the first year of their PhDs, by their third year this had slumped to 37%...Read More
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of several international consortia that have been created, since the late 1990s, to deepen linkages between universities...Read More
Universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be threatened as fee-charging institutions in England grow ever larger, a report warned today...Read More
Does academe have a problem when it comes to evaluating candidates who aren't freshly minted Ph.D.'s?...Read More
Sarah Porter is JISC's Head of Innovation, responsible for leading JISC's work to support innovation across the higher education sector...Listen to podcast
International university rankings, classifications & mappings - a view from the European University Association (view ppt)
MIT faculty and students will be part of a team competing to send the first privately-financed robotic vehicle to the moon, as part of the $30-million Google Lunar X-Prize competition, organizers revealed Wednesday...Read More
The Finnish government has announced plans to increase R&D investment to 4% of the country's GDP in an effort to combat the recession as quickly as it did in the early 1990s...Read More and more on R&D in Europe
Oxbridge is near the top in university rankings, but it's a different story on the web...Read More
The report examines overall trends in higher education enrolments and the evolution of S&T compared with other disciplines...Read More
In social situations, topologists and biophysicists alike find that their enthusiasm for their discipline is not always infectious...Read More
A total of $3.3 million was distributed throughout the country in the latest lottery board grants round for health research...Read More
The NZ/FRG Scientific and Technological Co-operation (STC) Agreement Programme is a sub-programme of the ISAT Linkages Fund...Read More
Four briefing papers from the research, science and technology sector were released publicly at 1pm today...Read More
The Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has released the Briefing to the Incoming Minister (BIM) from the Tertiary Education Commission...Read More
Universities’ case for increased public investment has been recognised in education agency briefing documents to the incoming government...Read More
News that the government is undecided about whether to cut costs in the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) does not allow tertiary institutions to plan cohesively...Read More
Profile and Trends is a primary information resource on New Zealand’s tertiary education system covering participation, achievement, resourcing, capability, research and much more...Read More
The University of Otago Council has elected Stuart McLauchlan as its new Pro-Chancellor...Read More
Roger France, a prominent chartered accountant and company director, has been elected Chancellor of The University of Auckland...Read More
Wellington company director Dr Russell Ballard has been elected to replace Nigel Gould as Massey University Chancellor...Read More
Two of New Zealand’s leading research organisations, The University of Auckland and AgResearch, have announced a major new collaboration to improve human health through diet...Read More
Two years into its life KAREN has exceeded expectations, with REANNZ arguably now the government’s expert agency for smart and efficient purchasing of broadband, according to REANNZ CEO, Donald Clark...Read More
The Australian Medical Council (AMC) has awarded the University of Otago’s Faculty of Medicine the maximum period of accreditation possible...Read More
The Royal Society of New Zealand, our national science academy, has established a popular science book prize...Read More
“The $1.8 million bail out of AgResearch by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology highlights the need for the government to provide more stable funding for the country’s crown research institutes,” says PSA National Secretary Richard...Read More
AUSTRALIA
HIGHER education is set for a $7 billion overhaul aimed at boosting graduate numbers by 330,000, tightening quality controls, merging some regional universities and turbo-charging research and development...Read More and reaction here and here and report here (2.55mb)
Graphic feed: Australia’s dependence (2007-2008) upon foreign students..View More
The newsletter informs the sector and stakeholders about the Australian Government's higher education policies and programs...Read More
The University of Western Australia is moving towards a new framework for undergraduate and postgraduate study, designed to equip students with a global outlook and a community conscience...Read More
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr today announced $580 million would be fast-tracked into universities through the Education Investment Fund...Read More
VICTORIA'S nine universities have signed a breakthrough deal to co-operate in promoting access for indigenous students in a move that could be emulated nationally...Read More
THE flagship grant program of the Australian Research Council should radically be redesigned, with emphasis on a large number of low-cost grants to train PhD students...Read More
THREE Australian universities have established a lucrative business selling curriculums in the Middle East...Read More
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The Association of American Universities offered six recommendations to President-elect Obama...Read More and more
Cambridge is UK's top research university in RAE...Read More, more, more, more, more and more
Few higher education institutions around the world appear to have escaped the collapse of financial markets...Read More, more , more, more , more and more on comparison with Great Depression
MLA reports 21% drop in positions in English and foreign languages -- steepest decline in 34 years association has collected openings...Read More
Academic blogs dramatically extend the boundaries of conventional peer review and academic readership...Read More
When "superstar" academic scientists die, their collaborators experience a significant and permanent decline in productivity...Read More
Universities across Africa are running out of academics...Read More and more
Research to be conducted at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which will employ about 1,000 scientists, will have applications in medicine, materials science, and astronomy...Read More
China has upped the ante on the education revolution. Between 1998 and 2005, the number of students enrolled in tertiary education in China rose by an extraordinary 4.4 times to 15.6 million...Read More
Higher education in OECD countries faces new challenges, including from gender imbalances and social inequity to demographic changes resulting from migration...Read More
A study for the Royal Society of Chemistry has found that although 72% of the women surveyed intended to pursue a university career in the first year of their PhDs, by their third year this had slumped to 37%...Read More
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of several international consortia that have been created, since the late 1990s, to deepen linkages between universities...Read More
Universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be threatened as fee-charging institutions in England grow ever larger, a report warned today...Read More
Does academe have a problem when it comes to evaluating candidates who aren't freshly minted Ph.D.'s?...Read More
Sarah Porter is JISC's Head of Innovation, responsible for leading JISC's work to support innovation across the higher education sector...Listen to podcast
International university rankings, classifications & mappings - a view from the European University Association (view ppt)
MIT faculty and students will be part of a team competing to send the first privately-financed robotic vehicle to the moon, as part of the $30-million Google Lunar X-Prize competition, organizers revealed Wednesday...Read More
The Finnish government has announced plans to increase R&D investment to 4% of the country's GDP in an effort to combat the recession as quickly as it did in the early 1990s...Read More and more on R&D in Europe
Oxbridge is near the top in university rankings, but it's a different story on the web...Read More
The report examines overall trends in higher education enrolments and the evolution of S&T compared with other disciplines...Read More
In social situations, topologists and biophysicists alike find that their enthusiasm for their discipline is not always infectious...Read More
Thursday, December 4, 2008
NEW ZEALAND
Twelve of New Zealand's top scientists, all holders of the prestigious Rutherford Medal, gathered in one room for the first time at the University of Otago yesterday...Read More
The international education industry in New Zealand looks towards next year with cautious optimism after a roller-coaster decade of tremendous growth...Read More
The Government will pay for an extra 25 doctors to start training as general practitioners from February, to help ease the GP shortage...Read More
AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITIES are not controlled by left-wing academics hell-bent on brainwashing students, a Senate inquiry has found...Read More
THE flagship grant program of the Australian Research Council should radically be redesigned, with emphasis on a large number of low-cost grants to train PhD students...Read More
THE global economy is embarking on an intellectual arms race...Read More
THE Rudd Government's research performance exercise is off to a surprisingly gentle start with leading researchers...Read More
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The global obsession with rankings: how should Ireland respond?...Read More (ppt), more, more on rankings
A recurring criticism of the UK's university sector is its perceived weakness in translating new knowledge into new products and services...Read More
The small companies "spun out" from university research expect to be increasingly able to snap up some of the City's big players to help their fledgling businesses to grow....Read More
The Bologna process, which began in 1999, is supposed to create a single market for higher education by 2010, so that academic staff and students can move between institutions more easily...Read More
The credit crunch feels like a real knock back for higher education institutions just when our work to get universities and industry talking to each other seemed to be bearing fruit....Read More and more about Harvard's woes
EU research ministers yesterday (2 December) unveiled their bold vision of a borderless European Research Area (ERA) by 2020 to boost the bloc's competitiveness...Read More, more
Pressures to complete PhDs rapidly are forcing the sector to ask if the process should aim to build generic research skills or expand the frontiers of knowledge...Read More
Copyright is just as valid in the virtual world. Make the time to do your research first...Read More
More than 6 million Chinese students left university this year and up to a quarter are still struggling to find work...Read More
Twelve of New Zealand's top scientists, all holders of the prestigious Rutherford Medal, gathered in one room for the first time at the University of Otago yesterday...Read More
The international education industry in New Zealand looks towards next year with cautious optimism after a roller-coaster decade of tremendous growth...Read More
The Government will pay for an extra 25 doctors to start training as general practitioners from February, to help ease the GP shortage...Read More
AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITIES are not controlled by left-wing academics hell-bent on brainwashing students, a Senate inquiry has found...Read More
THE flagship grant program of the Australian Research Council should radically be redesigned, with emphasis on a large number of low-cost grants to train PhD students...Read More
THE global economy is embarking on an intellectual arms race...Read More
THE Rudd Government's research performance exercise is off to a surprisingly gentle start with leading researchers...Read More
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The global obsession with rankings: how should Ireland respond?...Read More (ppt), more, more on rankings
A recurring criticism of the UK's university sector is its perceived weakness in translating new knowledge into new products and services...Read More
The small companies "spun out" from university research expect to be increasingly able to snap up some of the City's big players to help their fledgling businesses to grow....Read More
The Bologna process, which began in 1999, is supposed to create a single market for higher education by 2010, so that academic staff and students can move between institutions more easily...Read More
The credit crunch feels like a real knock back for higher education institutions just when our work to get universities and industry talking to each other seemed to be bearing fruit....Read More and more about Harvard's woes
EU research ministers yesterday (2 December) unveiled their bold vision of a borderless European Research Area (ERA) by 2020 to boost the bloc's competitiveness...Read More, more
Pressures to complete PhDs rapidly are forcing the sector to ask if the process should aim to build generic research skills or expand the frontiers of knowledge...Read More
Copyright is just as valid in the virtual world. Make the time to do your research first...Read More
More than 6 million Chinese students left university this year and up to a quarter are still struggling to find work...Read More
Monday, December 1, 2008
NEW ZEALAND
Three New Zealand universities are now linked to a Singapore-based technology network which will help commercialise local business start-up ventures in Asian markets...Read More
Scientific teams from AgResearch and the University of Otago will soon come together under one roof...Read More
AUSTRALIA
CO-OPERATIVE research centres, which link university expertise with industry problems, will take on a wider social and environmental role...Read More and more (PDF)
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The European Patent Office (EPO) yesterday (27 November) ruled against allowing a patent on developing human stem cell cultures...Read More
Graduates earn hugely different salaries depending on what subject they study and which university they attend...Read More
Multi-scalar governance technologies vs recurring revenue: the dual logics of the rankings phenomenon...Read More and more
Three New Zealand universities are now linked to a Singapore-based technology network which will help commercialise local business start-up ventures in Asian markets...Read More
Scientific teams from AgResearch and the University of Otago will soon come together under one roof...Read More
AUSTRALIA
CO-OPERATIVE research centres, which link university expertise with industry problems, will take on a wider social and environmental role...Read More and more (PDF)
EVERYWHERE ELSE
The European Patent Office (EPO) yesterday (27 November) ruled against allowing a patent on developing human stem cell cultures...Read More
Graduates earn hugely different salaries depending on what subject they study and which university they attend...Read More
Multi-scalar governance technologies vs recurring revenue: the dual logics of the rankings phenomenon...Read More and more
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