NEW ZEALAND
Today the University of Canterbury informed staff of proposed changes to the structure of its Senior Management Team, the group of executives which reports directly to the Vice-Chancellor...Read More

The Impact of the Performance-Based Research Fund on the Research Productivity of New Zealand Universities...Read More

The aims of two young researchers from the University of Otago are very different as winners of prestigious $10,000 AMP Scholarships...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The fiscal crisis in California, the world's eighth largest economy, seems destined to jeopardise the integrity - and future - of higher education in the state...Read More

SWEDEN: Fresh look at innovation...Read More

Smaller schools across Canada are up in arms over a proposal from five of Canada's largest universities to concentrate research and graduate studies in the biggest schools...Read More, more

Theuns Eloff has been appointed chairperson of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, a global body representing universities in the Commonwealth...Read More

Academics must wise up to Web 2.0 marketing – and the answer is high-quality podcasts...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand’s Top Young Scientists Announced...Read More, more

At a time when unemployment is rising, Waikato University will next year be turning away people...Read More

The game has changed according to Bill Reichert, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, California...Read More

Research and Enterprise Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne today announced this year's recipients of the University of Otago's Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research...Read More

Wayne Mapp Speech to WaikatoLink Accelerating Innovation Through Collaboration Forum..Read More

AUSTRALIA
IT sparked bitter debate and heated argument when first proposed, but the hard yards put in by universities in preparing for the now-defunct Research Quality Framework appear to be producing surprising benefits...Read More

LIKE it or not, our future is tied to our region as we enter the Asian century. ..Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Publication in High-Impact Journals is found to reinforce advantage...Read More

Love them or loathe them, league tables ranking universities against each other have grown inexorably in recent years...Read More

Students no longer have to travel to get a Western degree as UK education centres are setting up overseas in a global market...Read More

Sweden outlines its research ambitions...Read More

Canadian universities strive for differentiation and elite (global) standing...Read More

The administration of US President Barack Obama is ramping up plans to develop scientific and technological partnerships with Muslim-majority countries...Read More

New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released...Read More

How an online application could change research communication...Read More

Author explains themes of new book about how technology and "open access" ideas are changing education...Read More

Harvard University is regrouping...Read More

NEW LEALAND
A new investment partnership is looking to invest up to $8 million developing technology ventures emerging from life sciences, engineering and information and communication technology research...Read More


EVERYWHERE ELSE
Using prizes to spur innovation...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
The Impact of the Performance-Based Research Fund on the Research Productivity of New Zealand Universities...Read More

Staff, alumni and students at the Victoria University of Wellington will be rallying tomorrow to protest planned cuts to its Social Sciences Research (SSR) programme...Read More

Using funding models similar to the PBRF could be just the first step in a range of new performance funding incentives according to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC)...Read More

Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey will spend three days visiting Tai Tokerau (Northland) educators, politicians, business leaders and iwi to hear how the University can support the region educationally and through research...Read More

Nearly 100 university staff have been made redundant this year as funding per student drops for the first time in six years...Read More

Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the country's first Chief Science Adviser, is five weeks into the job but already rattling cages...Read More

Policy on unfunded students crystal clear...Read More

Governance will be improved at polytechnics alongside a more flexible interventions framework in a Bill being introduced to Parliament today...Read More

AUSTRALIA
The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, announced funding of $243 million for world-class collaborative research and innovation...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Universities are considering whether to throw their hats into the ring for a pilot exercise to test how impact could be assessed under the research excellence framework...Read More

For the first time since 2004, the number of international students admitted to U.S. graduate schools has declined...Read More

A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies...Read More

Do academic journals pose a threat to the advancement of science?...Read More, more

Paper attributes comparative drop in American university productivity internationally to decline in financial support for public universities...Read More

Much of the discussion of women in science -- and their relative scarcity in faculty positions -- focuses on the hiring departments...Read More

EU agriculture ministers and officials will return to Brussels from their August summer break to push ahead with developing a plan from the European Commission to create what amounts to a supranational agricultural research organisation...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Tolley: NZ Higher Education Summit...Read More

New Zealand's universities have reported their poorest financial performance in five years but it appears that worse is to come...Read More

Speech at the University of Otago Christchurch Medical School Mid-Winter Dialogue...Read More

Speech at the Higher Education Summit - Research and Innovation Forum...Read More and other speeches on RS&T here, here, here

Universities may have to turn students away from popular degrees in arts and commerce if the Government does not let them lift their student numbers...Read More

NZBIO congratulates Food Innovation New Zealand on their official launch at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus...Read More

Today AgResearch and Lincoln University announced their intent to develop a formal joint venture to secure many of the benefits identified in their previously proposed merger...Read More

Elders Primary Wool (EPW) and AgResearch have completed the second phase of testing and proving their Verifi TT technology...Read More

In a collaboration of unparalleled scientific expertise in New Zealand, AgResearch and the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute are seeking to discover how nutrients in food affect animals and humans to improve body composition...Read More

“We cannot afford to have a society where the SIS is spying on academics who are simply doing their job,” says TEU president Dr Tom Ryan...Read More

Celebrated scientist Professor Ted Baker will hand over leadership of the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery to Associate Professor Rod Dunbar...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Research universities and Australia's place in world...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
THE Internet has changed many things, of course, but one of its more far-reaching effects has been to transform the economics of innovation...Read More

Microsoft has 850 Ph.D. researchers doing basic research. The head of the company's labs says that is not a luxury, but an investment in survival...Read More

EU agriculture ministers and officials will return to Brussels from their August summer break to push ahead with developing a plan from the European Commission to create what amounts to a supranational agricultural research organisation...Read More

The Middle Kingdom's "soft power" approach to international relations continues with the planned establishment of three new Chinese national education centres at universities in Australia, Europe and the US...Read More

The economic contribution of PhDs...Read More (pdf)

NEW ZEALAND
Sixteen hundred scholarships will be provided at universities during the summer break under a joint initiative funded by the Government and universities, Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley announced today...Read More


The Export Education industry can be very proud of its place as New Zealand’s fifth largest export earner...Read More


The University of Canterbury has today launched its new Leadership Development Programme for corporate senior and middle managers and for SME owners, directors and managers...Read More


A major TechNZ investment of $5.8 million in a research partnership with Weta Digital over three years announced today has been welcomed by Minister of Research, Science and Technology Wayne Mapp...Read More


An $8 million funding boost will help high-performing polytechnics and institutes of technology collectively provide up to 700 new places ...Read More


Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi are both likely to cut courses...Read More


This report summarises the publicly available data, from four main sources, on enrolments of international students within New Zealand education provider sectors...Read More


AUSTRALIA
The 1957 Murray Report on Australian Universities makes important and sustained arguments about the relationship between universities and society, which are still relevant today..Read More


A recent report Supply, Demand and Characteristics of the Higher Degree by Research Population in Australia examines those in Australia who have a higher degree by research, with particular emphasis on involvement in the labour force and future levels of supply and demand...Read More


Australia's federal government will tie teaching and research performance funding to negotiated compacts to encourage distinctive university missions and focus research funding...Read More


MONASH University's stake in in-vitro fertilisation and the University of Queensland's Gardasil vaccine accounted for almost two-thirds of research discovery revenues generated by Australian universities, medical research institutes and public research agencies...Read More


ESTABLISHING a balance between university autonomy and the federal government's policy objectives will be a crucial outcome from discussions this month to agree the new compact system...Read More


COLLABORATIONS with China were essential to Australia's links with the emerging giant...Read More


Claims that foreign students generate billions of dollars in export income for the western countries that admit them in large numbers, such as the US, Australia and the UK, may be wildly inflated...Read More


In his presentation Professor Ian Chubb argued that it is imperative for Australia that we lift our sights and rebuild our capacity to perform alongside the world's best in those fields of education and research...Read More


EVERYWHERE ELSE
Universities were yesterday embroiled in a furious row over dumbing down after a parliamentary inquiry revealed the number of first-class degrees had almost doubled in a decade...Read More



Gender gap at top is not due to reluctance to make sacrifices, study finds...Read More

The world's leading scientists are increasingly mobile but those who migrate are not necessarily more productive than their stay-at-home colleagues...Read More and report here (pdf)

Giant US for-profit university provider establishes foothold in UK...Read More


The Next Big Thing: Crisis and Transformation in American Higher Education ..Read More

It’s a dramatic tale: The story of the once-wealthy institution that houses America’s smartest -- our leading university, perhaps the world’s -- now just scraping by...Read More

Study says investment is needed to maintain Nobel record in science...Read More


When the University of Colorado's endowment manager left to join a private investment firm, he took the university's entire portfolio with him to the new firm...Read More


Ministers risk alienating their science advisers by dragging them into public rows over politically sensitive policy decisions...Read More


The research findings show a higher positive correlation between graduation rates and spending on student services -- including things like student organizations, additional educational tools, and health and registrar services -- than between graduation rates and instructional or research spending...Read More


Despite efforts to reduce the geographical bias of search engines, American universities still take the lead in the latest edition of the Ranking Web of World Universities...Read More


Top-rated research must wait until September for NIH funding decision...Read More


Academics would be given the right to appoint their own vice-chancellors under plans for a Europe-wide definition of academic freedom...Read More