Peer Review and the NHMRC. 26/02/09
NHMRC has recently provided a detailed explanation of its peer review mechanism. [More]
Stanford's Tuition Hike Matches Harvard's -- Financial Assistance to Compensate. 26/02/09
Last week TFW reported that Harvard University was to raise its undergraduate tuition 3.5% to US$33,696 (A$52,530) [More]
Australian - South African SKA "Partnership" Announced. 26/02/09
South Africa and Australia are to collaborate in the development of the SKA pathfinder telescopes. [More]
Former Chief of CSIRO Division of Entomology to Head Britain's 1994 Group of Small Research-Intensive Universities. 25/02/09
Paul Wellings' appointment comes at a taxing time. Not only is the UK in the throes of a deepening financial recession, universities' secretary, John Denham, is proposing to increase the differentiation between research and teaching universities. [More]
Governmentium and Administratium Make a Reappearance. 23/02/09
A TFW reader, who being a recognizable member of the "establishment", requests anonymity has forwarded this elementary (particulate) view of the way things work. [More]
Elias Zerhouni: Science and Technology is the Best Guarantor of our Economic Future. 20/02/09 [More]
Kim Beazley Anointed Chancellor of ANU. 20/02/09
''Don't miss the graduations, keep out of the vice-chancellor's hair, give him or her advice when it is asked for, not otherwise''. [More]
Choice as US Chief Science Adviser Nears Senate Confirmation. 19/02/09
It bodes well that he has already secured four deputies (the last administration cut the number down to two). [More]
Obama Stimulus Package Allocates US$10 Billion to NIH. 19/02/09
US$8.2 billion will be designated to fund grant applications already received and to supplement existing grants. [More]
Economic Downturn Hits Harvard Hard. 19/02/09
Harvard's endowment, which stood at US$36.9 billion as of June last year has shrunk 22%, 1600 offered redundancy. [More]
Education Investment Fund Gets a Board and is Reported to Set Up to Allocate "Bonus" Funding. 17/02/09
An "announcement is expected later today approving a "bonus" funding round from the $8.7 billion Education Investment Fund" (EIF) as part of the government's economic stimulus package. [More]
Chief Scientist Calls for Nominations for Prime Minister's Science and Science Teaching Prizes. 17/02/09
The nomination round, which is now open, will close at 5 pm on Friday 8 May 2009. [More]
Investment in Clean-Technology Sector Up Despite Economic Downturn. 16/02/09
Nature reports venture capitalists raised less money and spent less money in 2008 than they did the previous year but...[More]
French Researchers, Lecturers and Students Intensify Protests. 14/02/09
The wave of resistance to government reforms of the French university system this week swelled into a tsunami. [More]
European Union Releases Report on 27 E.U. Nations' Research Efforts. 14/02/09
The report notes that the percentage of GDP spent on R&D continued to hover around 1.84% . [More]
The Contagion of the Bureaucratic Mindset. 13/02/09
The UK bureaucracy which spawned the RAE continues to gestate and issue mice. [More]
AAAS President Lauds Barack Obama for Exhibiting "Intense Curiosity and a Willingness to Listen". 13/02/09
"Perhaps never before has a president successfully recruited so many scientific stars to his cabinet and other executive positions." [More]
Charles Darwin -- 200 Today. 12/02/09 [More]
Entries for the 2009 Eureka Prizes are Sought -- Closing Date is May 1, 2009.
11/02/09
Presented annually by the Australian Museum, the Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of research & innovation, science leadership, school science and science journalism & communication. [More]
UK Universities Await Publication of Broad Principles Determining Universities' Research Funding. 09/02/09
Since 1992, when the former polytechnics became universities, there has been a tension between the benefits of sharing that label. [More]
University of Sydney V-C Speaks Out. 07/02/09
Michael Spence: Bipartisan approach is necessary to maintain our academic edge. [More]
Threat to Austrian Research Budget Prompts a Petition. 07/02/09
Four of Austria's more influential scientists have instituted a petition in an attempt to persuade their government not to slash the nation's public research budget. [More]
French Researchers Honour Their Threat and Strike. 05/02/09
Most French universities have little experience in managing human resources and research programs compared with the national research agencies. [More]
Cambridge Dons Smell Academic Freedom Under Threat. 05/02/09
Cambridge dons accuse university of trying to change its constitution to make it easier to sack and silence staff. [More]
Confidential Roundtables Next Stop for Bradley and Cutler Reviews, Gillard Says So. 04/02/09 [More]
Elias Zerhouni: The greatest risk in periods of tight economic times... is to stop taking risks. 03/02/09
A paper released on January 30 summarizing a workshop held on December 3 by the 2008 National Academies' Biology Summit on "The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America's Future". [More]
Rudd Government to Allot Additional $41.5 Billion Over Next Four Years to Bolster the Economy. 03/02/09
FASTS has made available a tabulation of the funding that the Australian federal government will make available for infrastructure investment over the next four years in order to help alleviate the financial downturn. [More]
Science: So What? -- So Everything. 01/02/09
The UK government in conjunction with the Royal Society have launched a new campaign to highlight the vital role science plays in people's everyday lives and in creating jobs. [More]
