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2012-01-19T15:28:00.001+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Innovation’s not easy…and there’s other ways to get value from it...Read More

AUSTRALAIA
Very scholarly: per capita...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science...Read More; more

Top Countries 2011: Scientific Publications...Read More

Summer schools can ‘wipe out’ social disadvantage...Read More

Funding: scientists are turning to crowd-funding...Read More; researchers have to learn how to sell themselves...Read More

The rise of the 'policy wonks' in the higher education hierarchy...Read More

2012-01-16T13:56:00.002+13:00

AUSTRALIA
The income generated by education exports in Australia has fallen by 15 per cent...Read More

Indigenous accountants in deficit...Read More

Australia's public universities face an uncertain year...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Humanities doctoral training needs to change to reflect job market realities...

US universities are offering alumni new levels of professional and intellectual support...Read More

Online education will turn the academy inside out...Read More

How research goes viral...Read More

British science needs 'integrity overhaul’...Read More

UK: Grade inflation hits universities...Read More

Indigenous focus at universities...Read More

Large donations to universities drop 50%...Read More

Measuring contributions to quality of life would show academy's full impact...Read More

The world's most independent defence science advisers...Read More

Tel Aviv an innovation dynamo...Read MoreRead More

2011-12-21T13:47:00.000+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Nature: Books and Arts of the year...Read More

2011-12-20T12:45:00.000+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
2010 Biosciences Report...Read More, report here (pdf)

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Horizon 2020 €80 billion investment...Read More, Factsheet here (pdf)

Nature: Features of the Year...Read More

2011-12-19T16:46:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
IRL to launch Singapore innovation portal...Read More
Prime Minister's $1 million science prizes presented...Read More
Gluckman: Innovation through science...Read More, more

What are the new models for science, commercialisation and investment...Read More

MSI introduces Smart Ideas funding...Read More

The Future of Healthcare...Read More
AUSTRALIAHow to support women university leaders...Read More
University of Sydney sets a fund-raising record with $73 million...Read More

ARC research hubs...Read More

PhD students on the factory floor...Read More

Unis 'must crack world's top 50'...Read More

EVEYWHERE ELSE
Black student intake at Oxford University rises...Read More

Brits sneer at STEM subjects...Read MoreBrain hubs run counter to US economy...Read More

Swiss Company World's Top R&D Investor...Read More
MIT's Media Lab has lost some of its cutting edge...Read More
Surfdom...Read More
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? ...Read More
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors...Read More
Young researchers lose out in European funding programme...Read More
Lukewarm reception for UK life-sciences investment...Read More

When governments ignore scientific advice, it is often because researchers do not engage with the political process...Read More

United Nations website tracks international initiatives that provide free access to research...Read More
Cambridge University puts Newton papers online...Read More
Scientists, meet capitalists...Read More

Sixty per cent of leading public figures in the UK have humanities, social science or arts degrees...Read More
Leiden Ranking: Many ways to rate research...Read More, rankings here

Concentration of research funding in a few elite universities...Read More

Sector must reject neoliberal business-speak...Read More

2011-11-29T12:20:00.001+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Global slowdown will hit NZ hard: NZIER...Read More

Icehouse forms innovation partnership with iwi...Read More

University sells off wireless technology...Read More

NZDF moves to commercialise Defence technology...Read More

KiwiNet and Texas A&M strike commercialisation agreement...Read More

Managers making our university tick...Read More

First woman to get top NZ science award...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Masters of the IP universe: QUT degree for research and development managers...Read More

ERA: Impact is back...Read More

Arts graduates are highly employable...Read More

AUSTRALIA: Racism 'rife' in universities...Read More

Philanthropy and goverment funding drives world-class biomedicine sector...Read More

Sydney Uni to cut academic and general staff...Read More & Melbourne...more

Don't let rankings drive policy...Read More

EVERYWHER ELSE
Science's attitudes must reflect a world in crisis...Read More

Alleviating poverty through entrepreneurship...Read More

'Big Bang Theory' fuels physics boom...Read More

Rush to India & China...Read More, more, more

CHINA - open courses online...Read More

Social sciences research role backed...Read More

University 'consumer culture' warning...Read More

UK: Universities forced to reveal animal test details...Read More

Private equity acquiring universities in UK...Read More

Rethinking academic tribes and territories...Read More

How to soar up the world university rankings...Read More

'Soft' courses axed ahead of funding cuts...Read More

Universities are "oblivious" to racial inequalities...Read More;

Scholarly publishing should be free...Read More

Online learning continues to grow...Read More

2011-11-10T15:32:00.000+13:00

AUSTRALIA
The University of New South Wales has decided to open a significant chunk of its patent pool to outsiders for free, in a strategy called Easy Access IP...Read More

2011-11-09T12:12:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Kiwi tech firms pitch to VC billionaire...Read More

2011-11-08T21:34:00.001+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE

Pensions dispute gives academics work-life balance...Read More

The stroke of genius strikes later in life today...Read More

Inside Higher Ed: Global marketplace...Read More

Prospects brighten for graduates seeking work...Read More

Top R&D spending...Read More

2011-11-03T14:33:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Uni seeks bailout as intake falls...Read More

Big new science institute promised by Govt...Read More; R&D report on high value manufacturing and services sector...here (pdf)

13 top researchers elected Fellows of Royal Society of NZ...Read More

Crowdsourcing science funding...Read More

for the last two years over 10,000 full time equivalent students in study were not funded by the government...Read More

$12 billion student debt a national liability...Read More

AUSTRALIA
SHOWING the impact of research beyond university walls makes good political sense...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Science affects everyone on the planet, so how and to what extent should the public help set its agenda?...Read More

Austerity budgets, fiscal squeezes, and territorial obligations: the end of an era?...Read More

Research cuts hit the DNA business...Read More

How will your research help Britain...in 2061?...Read More

Postgraduate premium shows significant rise...Read More

Ditch conservatism to survive, universities told...Read More

Sceptical about the over-ambitious claims of social scientists...Read More

2011-11-01T20:20:00.000+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
What do scientists want from politicians?...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
US: gap between research being performed and the volume of technologies...Read More

Germany's Excellence Initiative reaps rewards...Read More

2011-10-30T15:14:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Incubators get funding to support high-tech start-ups...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Royal Society to open its extraordinary historical journal archive to free online access...Read More

2011-10-28T16:03:00.000+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Closer ties with UK on science and innovation...Read More

What do Men and Women Earn After their Tertiary Education?...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Innovation key to UK prosperity...Read More

National Science Foundation director Subra Suresh reveals how his agency is coping with a grim fiscal outlook...Read More

The United States by numbers...Read More

Emerging scientific networks...Read More

Performance-Based Research Funding Systems...Read More

Copyright Discourse in the Academy...Read More

'World Class' Universities hype...Read More

2011-10-28T15:35:00.001+13:00

AUSTRALIA
Bottom-line boost for Australian Biotechs...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Gulf universities hope for research funds...Read More

2011-10-27T21:04:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND

Righting the innovation ecosystem...Read More

Treasury ponders private benefits of research...Read More

Industrial Research and UniServices are to team up...Read More

Lessons from Europe in fostering innovation...Read More

AUSTRALIA

Foreign student sector loses $2bn...Read More

Biotech industry at risk...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

Where anti-intellectual climate leaves the academy...Read More

When in China, don't mention Tibet but do wash well...Read More

Public investment in education to decline to 1950s levels...Read More

UK university applicants drop by 12%...Read More

Economic crisis has accelerated the trends towards university and college mergers...Read More

China leaps forward in research...Read More

Is higher education fit for the global urban era?...Read More

Despite ranking changes, questions persist...Read more

2011-10-16T22:40:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND

The Auckland waterfront is set to become the home of an innovation and research hub...Read More

Marsden 2011: Toughest year ever?...Read More

Canterbury University staff asked to quit...Read More

The Nobel Disease...Read More more

Release of Labour's tertiary education policy...Read More

Science New Zealand Chairman elected...Read More

AgResearch continues its contribution to Agriculture...Read More

Tech firms missing out on high growth...Read More

NZ scientists win international flu contract...Read More

The debate over the merits of blue skies versus applied research...Read More

Academic audit report of the AUT...Read More

Powerhouse and backbone has continued to be agriculture and horticulture...Read more

External Research Income Earned by New Zealand Universities...Read More

Do People with Doctoral Degrees get Jobs in New Zealand Post Study?...Read More

AUSTRALIA

Australia's best let down by perceptions...Read More

Melbourne has best MBA in Australia...Read More

Science under siege...Read More

NARROW measures of research performance are of limited value...Read More

Procurement of research grants a costly lottery...Read more

NEW national effort to revitalise the teaching of language...Read More

China continues its 'soft power' diplomatic efforts...Read more

EVERYWHERE ELSE

Monographs finally join citations database...Read More , more

Harvard at 375 shows appetite for risk-taking...Read More

Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own...Read More

OECD launches new report on measuring well-being...Read More

What are universities for?...Read More

The cult of Steve Jobs...Read More

Super-elite universities leaving the rest behind...Read More

Impact will count for 20 per cent of scores in the REF...Read More

Isotope ranking reveals leading labs...Read More

In defence of public higher education...Read More

Harvard endowment rises to US$32 billion...Read More

Princeton adopts open access policy...Read More

Universities urge freshmen to study humanities...Read More

European Union slams universities...Read More

The first European universities have important lessons for higher education today...Read More

'Patent trolls' target biotechnology firms...Read More

2009 financial stimulus bill has provided research with breathing space, rather than the sharp shot...Read More

4 ways to fix the clinical trial...Read More

New scoreboard for research and innovation...Read More

'Hotspots' and international scientific collaboration...Read More

Imperial College produces most 'spinout' firms...Read More

Where Universities Can Be Cut...Read More

Proportion of UK GDP devoted to higher education falls...Read More

Managers have bigger brains...Read More

2011-09-13T15:11:00.002+12:00

AUSTRALIA
Top economist rubbishes uni rankings...Read More

Foreign education loses $18bn premium...Read More

Number of law schools in Australia has increased from 12 to 32...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
California "privatising" public HE...Read More

CHINA: Top business school opens London branch...Read More

2011-09-10T10:26:00.000+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Tertiary education leaders are predicting that New Zealand students will go to Australia...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

Fast-rising health care costs have eaten nearly all the income gains made by a median-income American family of four over the past decade...Read More

2011-09-08T15:50:00.000+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Auckland University rejects calls to sack Mutu...Read More

The Icehouse and the University of Auckland are inextricably linked...Read More

Ten researchers awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowships...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Push to boost Aboriginal staff...Read More

Coursework masters soar in popularity...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Study suggests there are too many science graduates for the labour market...Read More

Gender studies isn't about 'women good, men bad'...Read More

More M.D.’s Add M.B.A...Read More

A failure to retain female researchers remains a major barrier ...Read More

Falling proportion of home students on postgraduate science courses...Read More

2011-09-07T21:30:00.000+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Te Arawa FoMA initiates concept of Maori Research Institute...Read More

2011-09-06T20:41:00.000+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
MSI’s job to bankroll a Kiwi Landing Pad in San Francisco?...Read More

Race row deepens as Maori academic stands by comments...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Peer review and the corruption of science...Read More

2011-09-05T21:04:00.000+12:00

NEW ZEALAND

NZ universities slip in international ranking...Read More, Otago bucked the trend...Read More

Appointments to Councils of Tertiary Education Institutions...Read More

MSI launches R&D internship fund...Read More

Call for vice chancellor's resignation...Read More

Canterbury University plans to axe 350 jobs...Read More

Director appointed for New Zealand eScience Infrastructre...Read More

Pacific Edge breaks through...Read More

Varsities not rolling in cash...Read More, more

Promote Auckland as an innovation capital...Read More, more

What’s the bet the high-value manufacturing review never sees the light of day?...Read More

Call for showcase university misguided...Read More

The Icehouse and the University of Auckland are inextricably linked...Read More

AUSTRALIA

QS World University Rankings 2011 Australia...Read more, more

$325bn payoff tipped from funding rise...Read More

Benefits of uni 'have to be sold'...Read More

Women scientists need true grit...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

A university degree no longer confers financial security...Read More

Cambridge tops league table...Read More

University of Southern California is launching a campaign to garner US$5 billion...Read More

Tobacco firm demands university's research...Read More

Open access will levy uneven tolls on institutions...Read More

Science must embrace the humanities to regain its Victorian glory...Read More, more, fight to save a Classics course...more, students shun humanities...more

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist...Read More, more

An eBay for science...Read More

Knowledge transfer and business linksincreasingly important for promotion...Read More

Financial incentives to UK students to jet abroad to study at overseas campuses...Read More

2011-08-14T14:44:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Constitutional Review Advisory Panel named...Read More

AUSTRALIA
ONLINE publication strategies by Australian universities are ranking well internationally...Read More

Social media sells educatio...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Sweeping reforms to copyright law are set to open the door for greater access to research papers...Read More

Universities' Licensing Activity Held Its Own in 2010...Read More

2011-08-13T20:56:00.003+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Universities NZ welcomes changes to UE...Read More

AUSTRALIA
The arts versus 'useful machines'...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
UN Academic Impact a 'global enterprise'...Read More

Top EU R&D companies expect a 5% investment rise a year...Read More

2011-08-03T20:30:00.003+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Auckland University model should be reproduced nationally...Read More

AUSTRALIA
CASUAL staff with PhDs could become the refuse of the higher education system...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Success of a student start-ups focused on higher education issues...Read More

New Google and Microsoft services promise to democratize citation data...Read More

2011-08-01T08:20:00.005+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
$5.2m for Maori health initiatives...Read More

University spends $1 billion on campus facilities...Read More

Kiwis don't actually know what success looks like...Read More

The Icehouse's ten year vision...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Troubled history of an ERA...Read More

Tertiary education more forward than backward...Read More

Australia's Strong International Innovation Position...Read More

Australia's egalitarian culture is holding back universities...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Do rankings promote trickle down knowledge?...Read More, more

Evaluate socially-focused universities...Read More

Building a new world-class university...Read More

News on EU Research Policy and Programmes...Read More (pdf)

2011-07-31T20:06:00.002+12:00

EVEYWHERE ELSE
Five myths about entrepreneurs...Read More

Happiness economics: Can we have an economy of wellbeing?...Read More

2011-07-30T21:22:00.008+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
MSI has advertised for a Science Advisor...Read More

The Inaugural Women in Science Entrepreneurship Award has gone to a Landcare Research DNA diagnostic facility director...Read More

AUSTRALIA
The Australian biotech sector is delivering results...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented...Read More, more

What does the US debt ceiling debate mean for science?...Read More

Critics concerned by scientific bodies' move away from traditional campaigning on behalf of oppressed researchers...Read More

Aging and innovation...Read More

University researchers look to industry for financial help...Read More

2011-07-27T09:05:00.007+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Crime centre under threat in university cutbacks...Read More

University of Auckland News...Read More (pdf)

Surpluses at public institutions raise questions...Read More

Chris de Freitas and Keith Hunter: The great climate debate...Read More, more

The Auckland of University Business School Entrepreneurs' Challenge...Read More

Planned IT hub could spark revival...Read More

National MP’s lobbying for MSI position...Read More

New Zealand’s voyage of economic self-discovery...Read More

AUSTRALIA
$66.5 million grant to fund research to help build one of the largest solar power plants in the world...Read More

Go8 backs impact measure trial...Read More

UNIVERSITIES could adopt a sector-wide system for peer reviewing teaching inputs...Read More

Better outcomes, cheaper subjects...Read More

Budgets bitten by research funding...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Decolonising our universities...Read More

Director of research at Google, discusses the future of Internet search tools, social networking and science...Read More

Defend Oxford's noble aims from media attacks...Read More

Reinventing Higher Education: The promise of innovation...Read More

US: Extra 20 million graduates needed by 2025...Read More

CHINA: World's universities forge local alliances...Read More

Higher education is a 'global public good'...Read More

Reputation surveys important to rankings...Read More

2011-07-21T20:25:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Robin Hapi appointed to the NZ Trade and Enterprise Board...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Should physicians manage hospitals?...Read More

Free Harvard resource aims to reduce errors in reporting of research...Read More

Reading Aristotle can roll back the tide of relativism...Read More

Challenge for many universities is moving beyond the superficial rhetoric of internationalization...Read More

Are private universities the way forward?...Read More

2011-07-15T22:17:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND

The entrepreneurial academics...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

Universities are at great risk, but also poised for an innovation-fueled renaissance...Read More

2011-07-14T21:52:00.000+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops...Read More

2011-07-14T21:21:00.006+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Average surplus as a percentage of revenue at public tertiary education providers climbing dramatically from 1.9 percent in 2006 to 5.2 percent last year...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Equality to score higher in REF...Read More

Assessments of the wider value of research are unpopular...Read More

2011-07-13T21:38:00.003+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
KiwiNet collaboration a bold advancement for science and technology...Read More

Tech transfer vouchers starting slow...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Our world needs the humanities...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
What Global Rankings Ignore...Read More

Ex-bank robber sets up academies for prisoners...Read More

From 'no such thing as society' to 'big society'. Spot the difference...Read More

2011-07-11T14:54:00.004+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
The ICEHOUSE Ideas conference...Read More, NZ needs new ideas ...Read More, Pure Advantage pushes 'green' opportunities...Read More

Medical tech exports could hit $1b...Read More

Agreement marks new era for tertiary education and health sectors...Read More

Appointments made to CRI boards...Read More

Seven NZ universities strong in employers’ top subject...Read More

Scientist for a Day stirs the innovation pot...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Streamlined Process for Trans-Tasman Patents...Read More

Australia's missing indigenous scholars...Read More

Education export earnings in free fall...Read More, Foreign students prop up research...more

Dropping ERA rankings 'correct decision'...Read More

Humanities too shy about marketing...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
New mission to ensure university research benefits UK business...Read More

Health spending continues to rise faster than economic growth in most OECD countries...Read More

EUROPE: Plan for one million new research jobs...Read More

Pseudo-scientific research still rife...Read More

US: What can universities do to keep costs down?...Read More

RUSSIA: Plan to fund 10,000 a year to study abroad...Read More

2011-07-03T19:35:00.003+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Time To Move Beyond Grievance In Treaty Relationship...Read More, factsheet

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Patent Boxes: An innovative way to race to the bottom?...Read More

2011-07-01T09:24:00.003+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Wai 262 Flora Fauna Claim to be decided tomorrow...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Materials science and technology global report...Read More

The Oxford comma fight...Read More

Paying for university: Tinkering with the ivories..Read More

2011-06-29T12:24:00.006+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington a natural home for hi-tech and the talent that drives it...Read More

RSNZ: Building design in the wake of Canterbury earthquakes...Read More

NZTE China advisors quit...Read More

AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITY contributions to research and development have helped Australia play catch-up with its trading partners in the OECD....Read More

Risks in unreliable rankings...Read More, Australian materials science ranking here

Aboriginal communities should be compensated for the loss of their languages...Read More

Universities look for benefactors to close funding gap...Read more

EVERYWHERE ELSE
University reforms: 'dead-end' courses to be named and shamed...Read More

Europe: no tradition of using philanthropic funds to finance higher education...Read More

Horizon 2020 the new name for an eighth Framework Programme...Read More

The 'Civic University'...Read More, more, more

Nudging the world toward smarter public policy...Read More

The highest-performing labs use the best talent-management practices...Read More

Is America losing its innovation edge?...Read More

King Abdullah University could become a global player...Read More, Islam and science...Read More

China’s roaring growth cannot last indefinitely...Read More

2011-06-27T20:17:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Lifting our R&D game...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Teaching quality under pressure as unis chase money...Read More

Bid to measure and boost innovation...Read More

IP reforms to safeguard Aussie Ideas...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Hollowing out the ivory...Read More

Profiles reveal China's rising global stature...Read More

Possible replacements for the monograph...Read More

Are students being short-changed by a narrow approach to learning?...Read More

2011-06-20T13:23:00.005+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Scientists topple sportspeople in 'most trusted'...Read More

Govt sets up new health innovation fund...Read more

Canterbury University asks for certainty of funding...Read More, more

What gets overlooked in pursuit of an innovation economy?...Read More

NZTE is winding up its $2.1 million investment training and brokering service...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Native owners or mining companies: who benefits?...Read more

A new campaign will be launched today promoting respect for science...Read More

Research spending consumes most funding...Read More

Let academics in real world...Read More

Researcher slams secretive science...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Rethinking industrial policy...Read More

Study shows that language used by female executives in meetings harms their prospects...Read More

Cambridge university chancellor race...Read More

Publicly funded higher education is under threat and defending it is essential...Read More

Let's face it, wisdom has an image problem...Read More

Moving inventions to the marketplace...Read More

European Critique of International Rankings...Read More; Report (pdf)

Attempting to automate much of humanities research...Read more

Regulators scramble to recover millions of euros awarded to fake research projects...Read More

Graduate salaries fall short of student expectations...Read More

Social impact of universities over worth £1.31 billion a year...Read More

Market forces vs preserving intellectual value...Read More; more

Agriculture: Higher prices here to stay, says OECD...Read More

Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn?...Read More

Civic engagement is not an add-on...Read more

Build bridges between academia and media...Read More

2011-06-07T14:30:00.004+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
'Innovation capital' status for Auckland...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Academia slows the search for cures...Read More (pdf) and criticism here

New College of the Humanities...Read More; and criticism here

Internet of things...Read More

Higher education the next overvalued market bubble?...Read More

14,000 British professors – but only 50 are black...Read More

UK: Challenges facing world-class universities...Read More

GLOBAL: Who goes where and why?...Read More

2011-06-03T16:18:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Otago’s oceanography research excels...Read More

2011-06-03T15:49:00.001+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society...Read More

2011-06-03T08:44:00.002+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The science 'X Factor' with a 1bn euro prize...Read More (video)

Colleges should integrate liberal arts into business majors to produce better professionals...Read More

Report debunks myths about entrepreneurs...Read More

CHINA: Access to overseas research disrupted...Read More

Dollar value of degrees...Read More

AUSTRALIA
SEVEN Australian universities are in the world's top 50 for arts and humanities...Read More

Surprise dumping of journal rankings...Read More

A MODEL for concentrating research areas at certain institutions, called hubs and spokes...Read More

God and the holy grail of physics...Read More

The university is an endangered species...Read More

2011-06-02T17:14:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Strike action intensifies at University of Auckland...Read More

IRL needs urgent overhaul...Read More

Uniservices Leading The Charge For Auckland...Read More

NZ universities sliding down world league...Read More

Tertiary institutions in strong financial position...Read More

'Improving the Transition' Report Launch...Read More

KiwiNet formed to boost commercialisation...Read More

2011-06-01T20:48:00.000+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSEWhy we have college...Read More

2011-05-25T18:59:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Maori Fisheries Conference...Read More, more

Māori tertiary education students in 2009...Read More

2011-05-25T08:24:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Fears IRL will be carved up...Read More

Most important technological ‘breakthroughs’ of the last 100 years...Read More

James Hansen and the critical decade...Read More

2011-05-24T13:21:00.005+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand budget: Mapp (MSI) ; TEC; Visualising the budget

PBRF and Canterbury Academics...Read More

ESR CEO appointment...Read More

Callaghan: New Zealand is poor because it chooses to be...Read More

Sale sign out for research capabilities...Read More

Labour's R&D tax break responses here, here, here; R&D Internships Read More

Auckland University world rankings here

John Key: confused understanding of science...View here

Brand Science is dead...Read More

India Leads Growth in NZ International Students...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Evaluation of the Australian International Science Linkages programme (pdf) here

Australia's new chief scientist...Read More

Group of Eight dominates rankings...Read More

Investment in international scholarships pays off...Read More

VC: Energising Innovation...Read More

University technology transfer offices...Read More

Aust research priorities under review...Read More

ERA set-up 'clumsy and bureaucratic'...Read More

Chair in Australian studies at Beijing University...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
US and the UK dominate the six latest global subject rankings...Read More, QS site here, overview; UNESCO view

The healthcare IT market still wide open...Read More

EU: funding should be more focused on green growth here vs will it work?here

40th anniversary of the May 1968 Paris uprising...Read More

How can you tell if a policy is working? Run a trial...Read More; "caught between scientists and politicians"...more

Degree or apprenticeship?...Read More; the £135 university lecture...here

Can science provide the ultimate explanation of human nature?...Read more; Robot altruism?...here

European universities publish joint action plan...Read More

Americans question campus costs...Read More

GDP vs happiness...Read More, more; OECD new measure...more

Publication: peer review...Read More; does location have impact?; does reputation rest on merit; are journals "marketing arm of pharmaceutical industry"; academics too "selfish" to share digital data; online route reduces delays Norway: One in five scientists fails to publish...Read More

Learning science through gaming...Read More

Canadian research shift...Read More

Asian Universities: basic science takes great leap forward...Read More; China starts march to export education...more; rise of higher education philanthropy

Humanities' value is not calculable in media buzz and 'impact'...Read more

Ways to spot strong and weak centres for research performance...Read More

MBA upturn worldwide...Read More

VC: focus on what matters - the people nearest...Read More

11 universities has produced more than half of all the spin-off companies...Read More; What makes science parks successful?...Read More

Texas set to allow handguns in universities...Read More

Funding cuts for the National Institutes of Health...Read More

2011-05-19T13:42:00.002+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Female academics would be aided by the introduction of gender-blind peer review...Read More

Google leads search for humanities PhD graduates...Read More

2011-05-12T14:02:00.001+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Pinpointing science's fertile clusters and danger zones...Read More and report here

2011-05-04T09:20:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Crown Research Institutes review off agenda...Read More, and here for an interesting discussion on the merits of CRIs and other related funding issues

AUSTRALIA
Quality and/or Quantity in Australian Higher Education?...Read More

Mass university sector is unsustainable...Read More

Postgraduates shy away from universities...Read More

2011-05-02T21:31:00.003+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent...Read More

The science of why we don't believe science...Read More

2011-04-28T12:08:00.001+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments...Read More

2011-04-21T20:20:00.001+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
New brain recovery clinic opens in Akld...Read More

2011-04-21T16:44:00.002+12:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Blackboard considers purchase offers...Read More

Education: Rethinking PhDs...Read More, more

2011-04-20T08:52:00.002+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
Sir Paul Callaghan on sustainable economic growth...Read More

AUSTRALIA
New chief scientist...Read More

AUSTRALIA's clout as an education power in China is under threat...Read More

Unlocking the doors to a doctorate...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Canadian research shift makes waves...Read More

2011-04-19T09:00:00.009+12:00

NEW ZEALAND
TEC Board welcomes new Chief Executive...Read More

A review of the Māori language strategy and sector...Read More(pdf)

The New Zealand Innovation Ecosystem Map...Read More

The next agenda for our science and innovation?...Read More

Prime Minister to open state-of-the art biotechnology facilities...Read More

New Crown Agency to improve the way the government supports and encourages international education...Read More

Auckland University is recruiting Chinese postgraduate students locally and overseas...Read More

Crown Research Institute merger calls...Read More, more

Gluckman: base policy decisions on the evidence...Read More

OECD Social Indicators: Key findings for New Zealand...Read More

Social entrepreneurs display all the characteristics of serial entrepreneurs...Read More

University of Auckland best placed at 39th in Civil Engineering...Read More

Iwi Used To Defend Economic Privatisation...Read More

Corporate model poses threat to university's excellence...Read More

Science Education in NZ Schools ...Read More

Investment in research and development grows...Read More

High-value manufacturing R&D review sure to cause some ripples...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Likely research cuts trigger alarm...Read More

Universities' value 'overlooked'...Read More

ERA prompts focus on teaching...Read More

THE commercialisation strategy of university engagement with business is withering on the vine...Read More

Australian Universities Take Steps to Increase Numbers of Indigenous Students and Academic...Read More

Military goes where it likes, especially on campus...Read More

Business takes dim view of academe...Read More

The Conversation aims to makes academic commentary and analysis more accessible to a broader audience...Read More

ARABIC is a quiet achiever among university languages...Read More

The government’s war on science...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
University cities thrive on students...Read More

US science agencies brace for shutdown...Read More

Foreign-student applications to American graduate schools are up 9%...Read More

China Has More Than 1.2 Million Students Studying Abroad...Read More

US: Reverse brain drain takes off...Read More

Universities sign up for UN Academic Impact...Read More

Indigenous peoples and higher education...Read More

What can science say about atheism?...Read More

Why America steals doctors from overseas...Read More

Are world leaders born or made?...Read More

Alumni will make the best governors...Read More

The economic and innovation contribution of universities: a regional perspective...Read More (requires password)

Humanities, For Sake Of Humanity...Read More

US legislation aims to simplify rules for inventors...Read More

Scientists reviving a decades-old technique for brain stimulation have found that it can boost learning...Read More

German university head lauds progress of women scientists...Read More

China hints at science-funding reform...Read More

US academics are seeing “historic lows” in their pay and conditions...Read More

'We need philosophy'...Read More

Who’s busiest: working hours and household chores across OECD...Read More

2011-03-29T11:21:00.004+13:00

NEW ZEALAND Massey University’s new Assistant Vice-Chancellor...Read More AUSTRALIA UNIVERSITIES are pushing out too many lawyers and commerce graduates...Read More EVERYWHERE ELSE Knowledge, Networks and Nations surveys the global scientific landscape in 2011...Read More Financial sustainability is one of the key challenges facing Europe’s universities...Read More

2011-03-28T20:52:00.004+13:00

NEW ZEALAND Random points of interest from NZBio...here and here Tertiary Update takes an extended look at what we can expect from the 19 May Budget...Read More AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIANS will have direct access to the thoughts of some of the country's brightest minds ...Read more AUSTRALIA could soon be squeezed out of its third place in a prestigious ranking of publication rates in the Nature suite of scientific journals...Read More EVERYWHERE ELSE Evaluation reveals main beneficiaries of FP7...Read More National Research Council- orders all staff to direct research toward boosting economic development...Read More The rise of dual profession lecturers...Read More Aboriginal Canadians’ university challenges are still steep...Read More Four female academic leaders use panel to call for more representation at the top of academe...Read More The Power of Research. It was designed to bring people closer to science...Read More Corporate lawyers are up in arms about a shift in the profession's graduate recruitment strategy that could see them forced to mix with "riffraff"...Read More Vice-chancellors' education and pay revealed...Read More Reflexive claims for the US academy's greatness ring hollow...Read More Meet and greet: bridging the academic/cultural divide...Read More UK chancellor puts science at heart of growth strategy...Read More Chinese Academy of Sciences has big plans for nation's research...Read More

2011-03-27T20:59:00.002+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE "Gross and ignoble" move to assert government control over research...Read More

2011-03-23T09:18:00.003+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE Princeton women steer away from high-profile student offices toward more obscure leadership roles...Read More New search facility for FP7 projects...Read More

2011-03-22T09:30:00.008+13:00

NEW ZEALAND The University of Otago has been ranked first among New Zealand research institutions for the number of papers published in the prestigious Nature and Nature Research journals last year...Read More PBRF – call for Expert Advisory Group nominations...Read More Investment in research and development grows...Read More, more Corporate model poses threat to university's excellence...Read More Clinical trials – New Zealand can capitalise on its expertise in innovative drug discovery...Read More EVERYWHERE ELSE Campus CEO's find that leading group tours of well-heeled alumni to intellectually stimulating places can be time well invested...Read More Playing war games - they can be a powerful business tool...Read More

2011-03-21T12:24:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
NZ Venture Investment Fund needs more money...Read More
Report finds NZ research "rigid application of New Public Management ideas such as contestability have had perverse effects"...Read More

AUSTRALIA
offices in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom to share a digital library of patent search and examination reports...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
First Nations, universities sign unique pact...Read More

ASIA: Countries vying to become education hubs...Read More

EU to launch 'industrial' PhD...Read More

THE reputational rankings - a helpful tool?...Read More

Keele University is planning to shut down its philosophy department...Read More

Charitable income to higher education has dropped...Read More

2011-03-17T21:36:00.002+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
All but five universities in England are to have their funding cut next year...Read More

International Fund Raising: It's Not Just About the Money...Read More

The Intellectual as Courtier...Read More

Hey, Physics, Get Real!...Read More

2011-03-17T21:36:00.000+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
All but five universities in England are to have their funding cut next year...Read More

2011-03-17T12:45:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Too many fixed term jobs for on-going work...Read More

Who keeps a real eye on the 'space' beyond R&D...Read More

Stuart McCutcheon: Professor's claims over uni at odds with facts...Read More

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to research Māori economic development...Read More

New U.S. universities V.C. fund a model for New Zealand?...Read More

Massey University and DairyNZ today announced a New Zealand Dairy Industry Chair in Farm Management...Read More

NIWA is in the process of an operational review which is likely to result in some redundancies...Read More

AUSTRALIA
STRATEGIC manoeuvring and game-playing are being reported as universities head towards deadlines for the second round of the ERA evaluation exercise...Read More, poaching academics

Three ways to be awarded a masters...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
World's top 100 universities 2011: their reputations ranked...Read More, comment, Auckland, Australia

Analysis of data from the pilot exercise to develop bibliometric indicators for the REF...Read More

Academics without the freedom to exercise judgement are not true academics...Read More

'Life depends on science but the arts make it worth living'...Read More

Underperforming v-cs may lose pay...Read More

Globalisation: contents and discontents...Read More

How Asian Are Asian Universities?...Read More

LSE debacle exposes lack of ethical guidelines...Read More

Before research can rebuild the US economy it must learn from the prosperous heyday of the military–industrial complex...Read More

2011-03-08T14:03:00.004+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
PBRF Quality Evaluation timelines...Read More

Economic Development Indicator 2011- Summary...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Academic Freedom as a fundamental right...Read More

Technology's Triumph Over Science...Read More

2011-03-08T09:39:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Auckland University staff to fight change...Read More

Science and Innovation Minister Wayne Mapp has announced a review to see how research and development (R&D) can provide better support to New Zealand's high-value manufacturing and services sector...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: The Policy Report...Read More

"It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result...Read More

Sustaining Scholarly Publishing:New Business Models for University Presses...Read More

Diversity and academic excellence are not mutually exclusive...Read More

Are you having problems with classes?...Read More

The largest ever funding programme for translational research in medicine...Read More

Professional Ranking of World Universities...Read More

PhDs 'wrongly focused', business warns...Read More

2011-03-02T16:49:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Viclink to get a lean makeover...Read More

AUSTRALIA
MORE funding for science research should be given to universities already in the top 25 per cent globally...Read More

JOURNAL rankings are "a spectre haunting universities everywhere"...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
'Stuff Academics Like'...Read More

The perception of Cambridge as a university for the privileged is very difficult to overturn...Read More

Universities braced for heavier research burden...Read More

2011-02-28T12:46:00.002+13:00

AUSTRALIA
The push towards web-based learning at universities has halved student attendance rates in some courses and dramatically increased working hours for lecturers...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
US academy confronts slave-holding past...Read More

Ancient university resurrection a step closer...Read More

2011-02-25T11:51:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Here’s a thought for you university lecturers out there...Read More

AUSTRALIA
An Australian group has created UniLeaks, a WikiLeaks-styled website...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The winners of the annual Wellcome Image awards...Read More

2011-02-24T09:02:00.003+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
With colleges under intense pressure to find new sources of revenue, many are applying business ideas or creating closer ties to corporations...Read More

Are scientists addicted to rhetorical imagery at the cost of misleading the public and themselves...Read More

More than a third of undergraduate students in the US fail to finish their degree after six years...Read More

Sun sets on Western dominance as East Asian Confucian model takes lead...Read More

2011-02-23T09:01:00.002+13:00

AUSTRALIA
FOR more than a century, national anthropologists have immersed themselves in the lives of indigenous Australians...Read More

Journal rankings out to tender...Read More

Most lecturers in Australia are more highly accomplished in terms of publications than their forebears 10 or 20 years ago...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The only way for academics to cope with the pace of change in universities is to ignore everything...Read More

Who does a vice-chancellor work for?...Read More

2011-02-22T08:54:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Massey University Fonterra Chair in Food Material Science...Read More

Norman Evans has a simple answer to the question of how to grow an economy...Read More

Waikatolink Appoints New Chairman And Director...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Large networks of researchers and companies aim to develop and commercialize marketable products...Read More

2011-02-21T14:24:00.006+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman: speech about the ever-increasing importance (and difficulty) of the interaction between scientists, media, policy makers, politicians and the public...Read More

New Zealand Centre of Excellence in Health Care Leadership Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) has confirmed the establishment of a New Zealand Centre of Excellence in Health Care Leadership to be hosted by the University of Auckland...Read More

Broking a marriage of business and academia...Read More

NZ science to benefit from $50m investmentin e-Research...Read More

Universities warn of staff shortages...Read More

Over the past decade the number of R&D staff transferring into New Zealand’s private sector has reduced according to IPENZ...Read More

Let’s make IRL an engine for private sector R&D expertise creation says IPENZ...Read more

New Zealand needs one place for everything innovative – NZ Institute...Read More

Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve "a quantum shift" in open educational resources (OERs) by launching an "OER university"...Read More

Women scientists with a business idea now have the opportunity to start their own company to commercialise it...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Plan to meld maths PhDs into workforce...Read More

First research exercise a mixed bag...Read More, criticismhere, here, outcomes here(pdf), league table here, Humanities scholars: research findings due to 'biases'...here, academic 'artists' repond...here

FOR universities, the only thing worse than suffering the inaccuracies of league tables is not appearing on them...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE

The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses...Read more

Much of the Ivy League eschews interviews when filling posts...Read More

A new blue-ribbon commission has been assembled in a bid to put the humanities and social sciences on an equal footing on the public agenda...Read More

What are international dual & joint degrees?...Read More

According to The Economist (here), "universities have discovered that Ph.D. students are cheap, highly motivated and disposable labor."...Read More

Obama resists research cuts...Read More

Drug-maker plans to cut jobs and spending as industry shies away from drug discovery...Read More

Societal barriers remain for women in science...Read More

Social science lines up its biggest challenges...Read More

China sets 2020 vision for science...Read More

Science today is so thoroughly embedded in universities that the line between the two has become difficult to discern...Read more

UK and US can gain in global game if they hit the right notes...Read More

Public funding for higher education among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may have reached its peak...Read More

The value of endowment funds at US colleges and universities rose by an inflation-busting average of 11.9 per cent last year, with Harvard University's fund worth the most at $27.6 billion (£17.1 billion)...Read More

Top research departments fail to shine in impact pilot...Read More

‘Academically adrift’? Authors question learning standards in US academy...Read More

Scientific Reports and success of PLoS ONE spell trouble for specialist journals...Read More

Map of scientific collaborations, worldwide...Read more

CHINA: Universities chase rankings...Read more

New research finds that a surprising number of valuable new drugs and vaccines approved in the United States have arisen wholly from research funded by the public sector...Read More

Academics make the best university leaders...Read More

2011-01-06T09:37:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Axing and restructuring general staff have cost Canterbury University more than $3.3 million...Read More

University expects record roll in 2011...Read More

Research, Science and Technology Minister Wayne Mapp has announced the membership of the two new boards that will decide funding for science and innovation...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Change needed for Oxford and Cambridge to remain leaders...Read More

The Rise of 'Convergence' Science...Read More

US science faces big chill...Read More

Including women on selection committees for senior professorial posts improves female candidates' chances of success...Read More

Business should pay for degrees in subjects such as science and technology...Read More

2010-12-23T09:06:00.003+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Save university arts from the bean counters...Read More

A round-up of the top science news stories of the past 12 months...Read More

Academics have long been criticised for being out of touch with the real world...Read More

Liberal arts degrees are appearing in the UK...Read More

Provinces agree to work together to promote a 'national brand' abroad...Read More

Greats back humanities' role in democratic health and personal consolation...Read More

Australian academics enjoy better salaries than their peers in other Commonwealth nations...Read More

2010-12-22T14:00:00.002+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Adult students seeking admission to Canterbury University next year are facing extra scrutiny...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Christ's endangered language gets new lease of life in Oxford...Read More

University places to be cut by 10,000 by 2012...Read More

Link between educational attainment creationist view...Read More

UK science faces facilities freeze...Read More

Mixed reviews greet White House guidelines for preventing political interference in US government science...Read More

Getting closer to your collaborators boosts a paper's citations...Read More

2010-12-20T20:41:00.005+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Word-leading forensic science agency to close...Read More

Higher education budget could lose £400m...Read More

The death of universities...Read More

New measures of scholarly impact...Read More

2010 - A year of shortages and partnerships...Read More

Academics look East as region seeks talent...Read More

2010-12-18T22:21:00.003+13:00

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The end of men...Read More

Turning Geek into Chic...Read More

2010-12-17T15:13:00.004+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Funding for projects under the TLRI...Read More

The University of Waikato has been commended in an academic audit for its Māori distinctiveness...Read More

AUSTRALIA
First indigenous Rhodes...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Dodgy doctorates...Read More

What is intellectual capital? Does it matter?...Read More

Genomics-inspired methods for plant breeding are not patentable says EPO...Read More

Call for action to develop Europe’s marine biotech industry...Read More

Creating prosperity: the role of higher education in driving the UK's creative economy...Read More(pdf)

Public perceptions of the benefits of higher education...Read More(pdf)

Imperial College London is to lay off 17 academics in life sciences...Read More

Global summit hears that public spending on academy should not be cut...Read More

2010-12-15T11:31:00.005+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Gluckman: Reflections on New Zealand and Innovation...Read More (pdf)

Wayne Mapp to leave Parliament...Read More

Iwi to Hold own Constitutional Review...Read More

AUSTRALIA
THE future of Australia's $5 billion Chinese foreign student market is bleak...Read More

Monash University axes staff...Read More

ACADEMICS can collaborate in real time without the tyranny of distance intervening...Read More

GREATER autonomy and research opportunities are tempting disillusioned British dons to these shores...Read More

A glut of graduates in America...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Publishing giant Pearson has announced details of its plans to offer degrees...Read More

Top scientists in Pharmacology and Toxicology...Read More

Thinking about Leadership...Read More

2010-12-14T16:06:00.004+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
PBRF: Nominations for panel members...Read More

Massey laboratory course granted one-year reprieve...Read More

Health spending was estimated at 9.8% of GDP in New Zealand in 2008, higher than the OECD average of 9.0%....Read More

Outcomes for New Zealand children are weak in several key areas...Read More

How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy?...Read More

Research jobs lost in uni restructuring...Read More

The Ruakura Estate will include Waikato University and Crown Research Institute AgResearch...Read More

Technology Development Grants announced...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
UK: Third of universities in England could close...Read More

UK: What students want - chapters, not books...Read More

At the World Innovation Summit for Education, participants discussed ways to reform education system...Read More

2010-12-09T17:12:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Tai Wānanga to provide choice...Read More

Could trade agreement let for-profit US universities sue NZ polytechnics?...Read More

The University of Auckland has formed the specialist research centre to help tackle the country’s infrastructure challenges...Read More

Massey University has started a $5.2 million programme with the World Bank to train people in countering global epidemics...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Time and experience are no friends of peer review...Read More

'We need impact and the time to deliver is right now'...Read More

2010-12-08T09:22:00.006+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
HRC awards $7.29M in fellowships...Read More

First of new research vouchers awarded...Read More

AUSTRALIA

2010-12-07T08:48:00.006+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Nine incubators are surviving, even thriving, after almost 10 years operation...Read More

Laboratory scientists fear the proposed closure of a Massey programme could lead to shortages in diagnostic laboratories...Read More

Appointments to University and Wananga councils...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The value of graduates and postgraduates...Read More (pdf requires password)

Just one British black Caribbean student was admitted to Oxford last year...Read More

Does a Nobel Prize lead to more citations?...Read More

2010-12-06T10:15:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Tax breaks for investors and tertiary training in entrepreneurship...Read More

AUSTRALIA
Disillusionment in academe...Read More

Academic shortfall threatens universities...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
The financial return on university study is determined more by the subject chosen...Read More

UK: University leads way with free research...Read More

In times of austerity, France keeps up science stimulus...Read More

Why the humanities remain highly relevant...Read More

A US-style university entrance test would not help identify academic potential among pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds that might be missed by A levels...Read More

New approach to research by pharmaceutical company...Read More

Number of Marie Curie researchers reaches 50,000...Read More

2010-12-02T08:12:00.010+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Top 10 issues for New Zealand’s long term success...Read More

The Request for Proposals (RfP) for Commercialisation Centres is now available...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
British University offers M.B.A. courses on Facebook...Read More

Singapore's newest University is an Education Lab for Technology...Read More

Marketization and nationalization in Britain...Read More

American Universities see decline in foreigners earning science doctorates...Read More

For Business Schools, economic crisis points way to change...Read More

Globalization means that Earth's life-support system can no longer be treated as separate from the socio–economic system...Read More

ASEAN may create research citation index...Read More

Is the standard peer-review process adequate for multidisciplinary papers?...Read More

Adopting new journalistic models would inject vitality into academics' work...Read More

Increase in PhDs spearheaded by women in science and engineering...Read More

Groundbreaking journal to publish across all social science and humanities fields...Read More

How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results...Read More

At U. of Glasgow, licensing rights to inventions are free...Read More

2010-12-01T13:50:00.008+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Tertiary Education Strategy monitoring 2010: Research and Innovation...Read More

CRIs account for their income and spending...Read More

What is worth more: school of life or university?...Read More

AUSTRALIA
THE federal government's efforts to get universities to agree on a set of performance indicators look like being a tortuous process...Read More

Tyranny of competitive learning...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
How many entrepreneurs are universities turning out?...Read More

China's university graduates on average make only 300 yuan, or about $44, more a month than the average Chinese migrant worker...Read More

2010-11-29T09:13:00.003+13:00

NEW ZEALAND
Wayne Mapp is travelling to the United States this week for top-level talks in both his portfolio areas of Defence and Research, Science and Technology...Read More

EVERYWHERE ELSE
Associations of universities and the deep internationalization agenda: beyond the status quo?...Read More

Archaeology under threat in UK...Read more

Basic and applied science crucial to success...Read More

India's higher education enrolment will increase to 44 million from the current 14 million in a decade...Read More