AUSTRALIA
FOREIGN students have begun to pull out of Australia, in what could be the first sign of a softening in the $14.2 billion industry...Read More

Simon Margionson's commentary last week, AUSTRALIA: Bradley: a short-term political patch-up, raises the question of whose interests one wants higher education to serve...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
A study released this month confirms and quantifies what many medical school deans and financial administrators have long understood: Basic science research can be an expensive luxury...Read More

...a number of scientists say that now is the time to tackle a chronic conundrum of their beloved enterprise: how to attract more women into the fold, and keep them once they are there...Read More

Talking about rankings usually means talking about league tables...Read More

The Government's policy on supporting innovation ignores huge parts of the UK economy by focusing too heavily on science and technology...Read More

The American Chemical Society began a pilot program that will make some journal papers available online about two to seven weeks quicker than was the case previously...Read More

What might be the future impact of demographic changes on tertiary education systems and institutions?...Read More

The controversy about how research funding will be distributed between universities following the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has exposed a basic problem in the way our higher education system is organised...Read More

Revealing conflicts of interest involving university researchers who consult for pharmaceutical companies will do little to make the research more transparent, says a British-based academic...Read More

The British Library and JISC today launch a ground-breaking three-year study into the study and research behaviour of ‘Generation Y’ scholars, namely those born between 1982 and 1994...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Applications for places on post-graduate courses have jumped by nearly a quarter as people shy away from a tough job market clouded by economic gloom...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Thomson Reuters extends the power of its Journal Selection Process by focusing on the world’s best regional journals...Read More

Read the latest news information of the Institutional Management in higher education programme. This issue deals with "Breaking ranks: assessing quality in higher education"...Read More

A set of online interaction technologies called Web 2.0 is finding its way into the scientific community...Read More

Many countries are outpacing the United States in producing natural scientists and engineers -- but most are doing so because they're graduating more people, period, study finds...Read More

Tâwaw cî?: Aboriginal Faculty, Students, and Content in the University English Department...Read More

Think-tank finds that firms don't know what's on offer from universities...Read More

British academics contemplating the research assessment exercise over a glass of something strong would do well to consider the alternative: working in a university system that makes no attempt to audit research quality or to assign funding according to excellence...Read More

AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITIES are urging Canberra to boost budget funding to the sector by about 20 per cent in a pre-budget proposal that would deliver an extra $2.2billion...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Leading universities are fighting behind the scenes to hang on to their share of research funding in the next round of financial allocations in March...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Local iwi Rangitane and archaeologists from Otago University are part-way through a three-week excavation that will lead to the reinterment on site of koiwi tangata excavated from Wairau Bar between 1938 and 1959...Read More

An international team of scientists has today released a new genomic tool which is set to transform the future selection and breeding of sheep around the world...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, announced $2.7 million to assist twelve leading Australian scientific research organisations to collaborate with their Chinese counterparts on cutting-edge research projects...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
After a long career in academia, Professor Emeritus David Inman reflects on the purpose of the university and the essential qualities that should define it...Read More

The rooms in Manchester University's Rutherford building, used at the start of the 20th century by Ernest Rutherford for nuclear experiments, as well as the rooms directly below them, are proving desperately unlucky places...Read More

Scientists in Europe can count on citizens' support for sustained investment in research and development amid fears that the ongoing economic crisis may lead to cuts, a new survey revealed last week...Read More

The 2009 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize will be awarded in Oslo during the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression (1-7 June 2009). Nominations to the 2009 Prize are welcome by 13 March this year...Read More

Controversial MP George Galloway is to stand for the post of rector of the University of Edinburgh next month – a post held by Gordon Brown 36 years ago...Read More

Citation is an essential part of science. It places a researcher’s thinking within a continuum of thought, indicating sources of ideas and theories that the author agrees or disagrees with...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The United States (US) is the largest source of R&D expenditures globally. It accounts for approximately 44% of total R&D expenditures in OECD countries combined...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Last month saw the release of a report of the Review of Australian Higher Education, immediately dubbed the 'Bradley Report' after the chair of the four-person committee of inquiry, former University of South Australia vice-chancellor Professor Denise Bradley...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Alan Milburn, once Gordon Brown's arch-rival, has been recalled to the Labour high command to lead a bid by the prime minister to break the middle-class monopoly on well-paid professional jobs...Read More

Nearly a quarter of France's 80-plus universities assumed new powers of autonomy on 1 January under the government's Universities' Freedoms and Responsibilities law...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
A study of New Zealand economists suggests that the flagship university research quality assessment system isn’t yet bringing the expected increase in research quality, and may be weakening incentives in the academic labour market for economists to publish higher quality articles...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
This year's graduates face the toughest battle in a generation for jobs, with tens of thousands facing unemployment, according to evidence documenting the impact of the economic downturn...Read More

Academics are well placed to ride out the current economic downturn, new figures on pay and retention of staff in universities and colleges suggest...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Expanding research may be a worthy goal in higher education, but doing so comes with significant costs that aren’t recovered by grants alone, according to a study published in Academic Medicine this month...Read More and read UC Santa Cruz report on returns on research funding here (pdf)

The Basque region is the proposed setting for the world's first 'social Silicon Valley'...Read More

Nanotech challenges the traditional values of Americans, while more secular Europeans are generally more supportive of the technology, reveals a new report...Read More

NEW ZEALAND

University of Otago vice-chancellor and medical researcher Prof David Skegg has been awarded one of the highest accolades in the New Year honours list...Read More and more on other Otago University research recipients here, here, here, here

NZVCC Newsletter No. 79...Read More

AUSTRALIA

The discovery of the world's earliest 'nuclear family', led by University of Adelaide DNA researcher Dr Wolfgang Haak, has been named in TIME magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of the Year....Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

The role of the university in city/regional development: a view from a Vice-Chancellor in Bristol...Read More

Conversations with some of the leading venture capitalists about the types of companies that will receive some of the estimated $31 billion venture capital firms raised in 2008 offer a glimpse at the future of technology...Read More

Colleges and universities own the ideas and technologies invented by the people who work for them, including professors and graduate students who are paid to do research...Read More

RAE reaction: Fair attempt to achieve the impossibleRAE reaction: Fair attempt to achieve the impossible...Read More and more on RAE here, here, here

The Government is to amend entry options in its new visa system that could have prevented thousands of overseas researchers entering the UK...Read More

The economic downturn will hit the Internet economy hard in 2009, according to the latest available OECD estimates...Read More

Budget woes, ‘killer ap’ fatigue, and security-related disruptions top Lev Gonick’s list of the 10 IT issues facing colleges in 2009...Read more

EVERYWHERE ELSE
College campuses are one place that young Americans are introduced to credit and the possibility of spending beyond their means...Read More