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

EVERYWHERE ELSE
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