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

EVERYWHERE ELSE
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