NEW ZEALAND
The 2025 Taskforce report aimed at increasing the country’s productivity contains recommendations that could potentially assist universities in maximising their contribution to closing the income gap with Australia...Read More and NZVCC submission (pdf) and more

Two distinguished researchers have been appointed to the Marsden Fund Council...Read More

AUSTRALIA
SCIENTISTS from around Australia who use the Melbourne-based synchrotron have appealed to Victorian premier John Brumby to intervene in the worsening crisis at the facility...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Often overlooked in the "miracle" of China's rapid economic development over the past three decades is the "miracle" in the massive number of PhD graduates it now produces...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
New models are emerging for boosting innovative pharma R&D...Read More

The business incubator Upstart hopes to boost local investment with a new fund...Read More

The first time we heard that education generates more ‘export earnings’ for the New Zealand economy than does wine...Read More

Research, science and technology create almost 2500 jobs in Palmerston North, and produce $312 million each year...Read More

Coalition welcomes NIWA commitment to robust work...Read More

More than than $5.5 million is set to be shaved off Massey University's College of Sciences budget, with staff redundancies and course cuts looming...Read More

How New Zealand firms can create extra profit by understanding how Kiwis think about innovation...Read More

A government request for university staff to watch out for spies and terrorists has riled New Zealand's Tertiary Education Union...Read More

Ten companies have been selected as finalists in a competition aimed at fast-tracking New Zealand healthcare innovations into the United States health industry...Read More

Greater emphasis is required on the secondary-tertiary interface, according to the NZVCC submission on the Government’s Draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2010-2015...Read More

This publication is an independent survey to advise how international alumni can help New Zealand tertiary institutions develop and raise their profiles internationally...Read More

AUSTRALIA
POSTGRADUATE and overseas student enrolment behaviour is likely to be driven by new university research rankings...Read More

Synchrotron sacking troubles scientists...Read More

UNIVERSITY managers without high-level academic achievement are winning the title of professor for "authority needs"...Read More

A NEW survey reveals how academics interact with their wider societies...Read More

AUSTRALIAN research and development providers are good at value creation but poor at value capture...Read More

LOBBYISTS representing universities to Canberra had to overcome their "sense of entitlement" if they were serious about having an influence on how people lived...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
A rapidly growing number of universities across the world are establishing branch campuses in other countries...Read More

More than 50 research institutions around the United States now make information about their clinical research trials available on ResearchMatch, the country's first registry for recruiting research participants...Read More

Report - How Research Can Inform Policy...Read More

A radical change is taking place in universities around the world as fast-expanding private provision offers access to millions of new students...Read More

Research produced by the bulk of the elite Russell Group of large research-intensive universities is no better than that generated by their smaller counterparts, according to a new analysis...Read More

Plans have been unveiled for a "composite" honours and masters degree incorporating an apprenticeship as part of a new national skills strategy...Read More and at Oxford, entrepreneurs

Postgraduate focus is likely future for Cambridge...Read More

Finland's celebrated innovation system is in need of a radical overhaul, according to a new international review...Read More

Top nations in computer science...Read More

The Government made a "fundamental mistake" in its plan for the future of higher education by painting a picture of a consumer-driven student experience...Read More

Growth in R&D investment holding up...Read More

The Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest non-governmental funder of biomedical research, is giving its grant scheme a major overhaul...Read More

A new Open Science report released today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for science, universities and UK society...Read More

Among worldwide total, China's share has grown dramatically in last 5 years while the U.S. and Europe have seen declines...Read More, more, more

Harvard University and Yale University are among six schools pledging to encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products stemming from discoveries made on their campuses...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Skilled graduates, research contracts, technology licenses and launch of new businesses all flow from an effective science infrastructure...Read More

An alternative to the scrapped research and development tax credit is key if New Zealand’s life science industries are to realise their potential as drivers of future productivity and growth, business leaders warn...Read More

Profile and Trends 2008: New Zealand's Tertiary Education Sector...Read More

Gender gap widens among university graduates...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Comparing prominent league tables...Read More

Australian agency denies gagging researchers...Read More

Eloquent lessons in value of ethics ...Read More

Australian Research Council-funded publications are attracting more citations than the Australian and world averages...Read More, more

What will Australian universities look like in 20 years? ...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Thousands of EU publications have been made available to the public for free following the launch in Frankfurt of a new digital library, the EU Bookshop...Read More

Higher education generates more for the economy than either agriculture or the pharmaceutical industry, report says...Read More

China doubles research output, leaving West in its wake...Read More

Conference hears that scholarly narcissism is leading disciplines to ruin...Read More

Labour's overhaul of universities will see them become more socially inclusive and students better equipped for business...Read More and reaction here, here, here

There is growing opposition to both the use of impact in the forthcoming research excellence framework...Read More and on humanities citations here and peer review here

Break-up means new global rankings...Read More and more on rankings - top 100 business schools here

Can literature analysis identify innovation drivers in drug discovery?...Read More

Improving the structures that support doctoral students can turn around completion rates...Read More

NEW ZEALAND
Universities strongly back findings in a report on the economic benefits of publicly-funded research produced by the Government’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman...Read More and report here (pdf)

Universities have welcomed the opportunity to influence the Government’s priorities for research, science and technology by responding to the just-released feedback document...Read More

Maori Academic Leadership: Capacity, Capability and Character...Read More

New Zealand and China have signed an education agreement which will enhance research, science and technology links....Read More

The government is currently setting priorities for research, science and technology and is seeking feedback from the sector...Read More and

Taskforce to review Crown Research Institutes...Read More

The Currency of knowledge; or, the PBRF in ruins...Read More

More university graduates could end up on the dole queue with the number of graduate jobs on offer cut by up to a half in a year...Read More

New Zealand's biggest science provider, AgResearch, says it is having to find work in other countries to meet Government demands for a 9 percent dividend...Read More

The Riddet Institute has established “The Earle Food Research Fund,” a $1 million scholarship fund to support postgraduate students working on research which contributes to its Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) Research Programme...Read More