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


EVERYWHERE ELSE
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