NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand’s life science industry leaders were celebrated last night at the 5th annual NZBIO Conference Awards...Read More

AUSTRALIA
IN a breakthrough for university research, Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has won a commitment from Treasury to fully fund the indirect cost of research...Read More

What is required in today's world is research power: high capacity for high output volume of high quality. Selectivity is a necessary but not sufficient allocative principle in this context," said Mr Michael Gallagher, Executive Director, the Group of Eight...Read More

AUSTRALIA is alone in requiring its top 200 research universities to support the national balance of payments by driving growth in the education export market, globalisation expert Simon Marginson has warned...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Dramatic shifts in the U.S. labor market in the last 25 years are relegating older workers -- even those with a college education -- to lower-wage jobs...Read More

Academics at Liverpool University have threatened strike action if management push through proposals to axe its politics, philosophy and probability departments in what appears to be the the first casualty of poor scores in December's national exercise to judge research quality...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Massey University’s Albany campus has had a growth spurt this year, with new domestic enrolments up nearly 25 per cent on last year’s numbers...Read More

The Chairman of AgResearch and the Chancellor of Lincoln University today announced that the Crown Research Institute and the University support, in principle, the merger of the two organisations to create a substantially enhanced Lincoln University...Read More, more, more, Massey University comment here

AUSTRALIA
THE federal Government yesterday urged universities to enrol an additional 55,000 students from poor backgrounds and to reform the research and innovation system...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
As the recession deepens, ministers are looking increasingly to universities for ideas on how to boost the economy...Read More

Up to eight departments are under threat at the University of Liverpool, according to internal documents seen by Times Higher Education...Read More

Speakers at MIT's Energy Conference on Saturday emphasized the historic opportunity now open to proponents of clean energy: a global economic crisis that can be directly addressed by sweeping changes to the way we produce and use energy...Read More

Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand's economy has been based on the production of agricultural commodities for the past 150 years. But in the recent past, even with our global scientific and technical leadership of the sector, it has not been enough...Read More

A new programme between New Zealand and China will open the door to exchanges for promising researchers...Read More

AUSTRALIA
COMPACT agreements between the Commonwealth government and universities that link funding to specific missions will be introduced as part of the Government's shake up of higher education, research minister Kim Carr said today...Read More, more

University vice chancellors are warning they need an immediate funding boost to prepare the sector to meet ambitious new expansion targets...Read More

Is Australia overdependent on international students?...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
A computerized search of several million journal articles revealed thousands of cases in which one article bore large similarities to another article, a researcher writes, again...Read More

Successive RAEs have concentrated research cash in the hands of the elite. This time around, the pie has been shared more widely...Read More, more

METRIS stands for Monitoring European Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities. The aim of METRIS is to support the European Research Area (ERA) in the Social Sciences and the Humanities...Read More

We'll shift Britain's economic engine from the City to the science laboratories, Prime Minister says...Read More

A UK university hoping to be a world leader in research needs about 7,500 staff, according to an analysis for Times Higher Education...Read More

Full-time faculty jobs have not been easy to come by in recent decades, but this year the new crop of Ph.D. candidates is finding the prospects worse than ever...Read More

This research address the lack of comprehensive information and analysis of the activities of UK universities that have developed a wide variety of international links and collaborative arrangements with overseas partners in terms of teaching, research and knowledge transfer...Read More

The U.S. Energy Department on Wednesday said it plans to provide up to $84 million in funding for geothermal energy projects...Read More

Countries in South, South-West and Central Asia have decided to increase public spending on higher education notwithstanding the global financial crisis...Read More

An online survey of full professors has revealed that they see their role very differently from the universities that employ them...Read More

Five universities are pledging to work together in an attempt to help drive the Welsh economy out of the recession...Read More

Targeting Innovation Ltd (2008) Scottish university spin-out study...Read More (requires registration)

NEW ZEALAND
The Tertiary Education Commission has announced today it will cut 72 of its current 364 full time equivalent jobs...Read More

University leaders have committed to working with the Government to assist the economic recovery by utilising the depth of expertise available in their sector...Read More

AUSTRALIA
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its International Goods and Services December 2008 trade data, confirming the contribution of education as Australia’s third largest export industry...Read More

A RESEARCH flagship has only just been pulled back from the brink of going broke...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Top universities including Imperial College London, University College London and Cambridge face substantial cuts this year after losing out in the allocation of £1.6bn of research funding...Read More, funding per University table, funding per subject & researcher

A new study has revealed deep divisions on how nanotechnology should be regulated...Read More

The head of research and development at one of the world’s largest mobile phone companies has criticised the research claims of the UK’s higher education sector...Read More

London School of Economics Public Policy Group, (2008), "Maximizing the social, policy and economic impacts of research in the humanities and social sciences"...Read More (requires registration)

NEW ZEALAND
OECD Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2009 - New Zealand Country Note (Note R&D and Health recommendations)...Read More

New Zealand's tertiary education funding agency, the Tertiary Education Commission, is facing cuts amid fears that the country's new conservative government also wants savings from its wider tertiary allocations...Read More

New Zealand now has an opportunity to invest to raise education and training levels, Secretary to the Treasury John Whitehead told last week’s Job Summit...Read More

This report analyses the bibliometric performance of New Zealand universities between 1994 and 2007 using data from Thomson Reuters. The report also examines the impact of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF)...Read More

Enrolment numbers at Waikato University are up by 1000 on the same period last year...Read More

AUSTRALIA
IN the biggest shake-up since the 1980s, the Rudd Government is planning to link funding for tertiary places to student demand...Read More

UNIVERSITIES need to reach out to expatriate academics to tempt them home as part of a national effort to boost the supply of academics ahead of the baby boomer generation's retirement...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Big boosts for climate and basic research in President Barack Obama's proposed spending for next year...Read More

Scientists fear visa trouble will drive foreign students away...Read More

BRITAIN'S Universities Minister John Denham has scotched suggestions that he distribute research funding more widely, saying present levels of concentration are about right...Read More

Hundreds of Harvard Medical School students and faculty members have joined forces to expose ties between industry and researchers that they believe may be tainting the work being done in Harvard’s classrooms...Read More

This memo provides a synopsis of the innovation performance of the different Member States, as measured in the European Innovation Scoreboard 2008 (EIS)...Read More

The golden years appear to have little effect on the productivity of the active professor, according to a Canadian study...Read More