NEW ZEALAND
The Christchurch Cardioendocrine Research Group at University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand, in collaboration with Neurocrine, has obtained regulatory approval to begin a pilot study in patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure...Read More

Following pressure from the Tertiary Education Commission, the University of Waikato is considering disestablishing its pioneering Te Timatanga Hou and Certificate of University Preparation programmes...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Irish experts challenge EU innovation mantra...Read More and report here (pdf)

As its name suggests, the new journal publishes only papers that, like Lauterbur’s and Dr Higgs’s, have been previously submitted to, and rejected by, others...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Universities’ significant commitments to creating and applying knowledge to drive innovation in New Zealand are noted...Read More

Towards Social Cohesion: The Indigenisation Of Higher Education In New Zealand...Read More

Government needs to ensure that the tertiary education system better matches what is needed in the workforce...Read More and report here

AUSTRALIA
MERGERS between Australian and British universities could prove to be a winning formula as they struggle to survive in an increasingly competitive global market...Read More

THE Australian Research Council will study a reform of peer review that would give more weight to the opinion of reviewers with the most specialised level of expertise...Read More

THE federal government will tie teaching and research performance to focus on funding the best performers...Read More
UNIVERSITIES should avoid being just another export industry...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The UK and US must build on their “primacy” in world higher education to lead the development of a “global civil society”, binding countries together through common values and principles...Read More, more, report here (pdf)

The Payscale site has produced a ranking of American schools and colleges by the salaries that its graduates earn...Read More

AUSTRALIA
THE University of Melbourne will cut 220 full-time positions - three per cent of the workforce - in an effort to save $30 million...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Work on a $30 million laboratory for start-up science companies begins today, promising new inventions in food, medicine and environmental protection...Read More

The Government plans to drastically overhaul the way polytechnics operate by slashing the size of their governing councils...Read More

This is the first of a set of three reports looking at the implementation of the 2007-2012 Tertiary Education Strategy. ...Read More and other reports here and here

Science for New Zealand – let’s get science moving progressively and scientists better able to work for national good...Read More

Over sixty reviews have taken place or been initiated in tertiary education institutions so far this year, affecting hundreds of jobs and resulting in dozens of redundancies...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Innovation has become a modern 'buzz word' to describe our constant attempts to surpass the limits and explore the possiblities of our world...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Corporations will pump billions of euros into e-health R&D in a bid to steal a march on competitors in a sector expected to be a major driver of economic growth..Read More, more

Lord Mandelson, the First Secretary, has promised support for universities pursuing knowledge as “an end in itself” amid concern that the Government sees higher education solely in terms of delivering economic outcomes...Read More, more

Open access has been touted as the future of scientific publishing, claiming benefits such as wider readership and, crucially, significantly higher citation rates...Read More

In offering B.S. in economics degrees at three partner universities in China and Hong Kong, Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business uses a different kind of teaching model...Read More

Japan's University of Tokyo and the US universities of Harvard and Stanford retain their leading places in the third annual Professional Ranking of World Universities compiled by the French grande école Mines Paris Tech...Read More

Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard...Read More

The long-standing principle that dictates that decisions about how to spend research funds should be made by researchers rather than politicians is “dead and out of date”, the chairman of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee has said...Read More

The impact of academics' work on the wider world could count for "at least 20 per cent" and "up to 30 per cent" of the assessment process under the forthcoming research excellence framework, one of its architects has revealed...Read More

Paying for excellence must not come at price of barring poorer students, says business secretary ahead of independent review...Read More

Researchers in the physical sciences will get the opportunity to bid for a share of up to £2 million of funding in a Dragons' Den-style interview process...Read More

The idea of branding has met with a lot of resistance in higher education, and its appropriateness for universities has been vigorously questioned...Read More

The government confirmed today that 10,000 emergency extra university places this autumn will be restricted to science and business subjects...Read More

15 foreign universities join free zone...Read More

The new dynamics of higher education...Read More

US: Do elite colleges produce best-paid graduates?...Read More

Europe4Researchers Newsletter — Issue 3 — July 2009...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Director and chair appointments and reappointments to the boards of seven Crown Research Institutes were announced today by Minister of Research, Science and Technology Wayne Mapp. ..Read More

The Tertiary Education Union says staff could be victimised under Canterbury University's plan to get tough on subject areas not meeting government research funding criteria...Read More

This year the prestigious Prime Minister’s Supreme Award, worth $30,000 was presented to Selene Mize, senior lecturer in the faculty of law at University of Otago. ..Read More

AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN-trained philosophers are in big demand among US universities...Read More

BRISBANE will use $160m in new and preserved funding to step-up recruitment of top researchers for medical research and development...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The Government has announced an extra 10,000 university places in science, technology, engineering and mathematics...Read More

THE Sarkozy government is determined to transform the higher education landscape in France...Read More

Professor Peter Doherty argues the case for why 21st century scientists, regardless of their expertise and standing in their respective fields, must always remain on their toes and keep abreast of new ideas in modern science...Read More

Universities are about to be given targets for carbon reduction. ..Read More

NEW ZEALAND
She went from 'sex bomb' trade unionist to 'very dour' Labour leader in her quest for credibility...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Slack academics at Canterbury University will cost their colleges $40,000 a year from 2012...Read More

The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology has approved $136 million in contracts with research organisations in its main 2009 investment round....Read More

The scientific community must work together to improve its performance, says the Chief Science Adviser to the Prime Minister Professor Peter Gluckman...Read More, more

AUSTRALIA
Kuhn and Feyerabend were science historians. They showed, using the evidence of history, that some of the greatest shifts in scientific thinking from Copernicus to Galileo to Newton were not based solely on reason...Read More

FEDERAL Research Minister Kim Carr has chastised critics of government plans to measure the quality of research...Read More

IT'S cognitive misers in the audience who make science communication a hard sell...Read More

THE Australian Academy of Science has called on the Rudd government to improve career opportunities for the nation's scientists...Read More

EVERYHWERE ELSE
Top 20 journals in psychiatry and psychology by citation impact...Read More

The “managerial mentality” in universities is distorting real science and promoting “pseudoscience” ...Read More

This report discusses the possible role and limitations of innovation procurement as an innovation policy instrument...Read More

Lost property: The European patent system and why it doesn't work...Read More

Scholar says Government must understand social science better in run-up to REF...Read More

4,593 jobs cuts expected in universities and 1,298 in colleges...Read More

UK universities are “micro-managed” and should be given greater freedom from government control....Read More

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

NEW ZEALAND
Bayer Science & Education Foundation launches new round of funding...Read More

AUSTRALIA
PEAK university bodies' claims that education is the country's third largest export earner are "grossly misleading" as up to half the headline $15 billion figure can come from overseas student earnings in Australia, a leading academic says...Read More

RESEARCHERS have welcomed the federal government's $1.1 billion upgrade of the country's landmark research infrastructure...Read More

IN theory, science is a failure. In practice, it works; in product, it soars. Yet because scientific product depends on practice, which in turn depends on theory, it is vital that scientists understand how and why science fails...Read More