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Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett Discusses Australia's Foresighting Activities at the World Science Forum. 30/11/09
This past November 5-7 Australia's Chief Scientist, astronomer Professor Penny Sackett attended the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary. This is the first of her two presentations. [More]
Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett Discusses Women in Science from an Australian Perspective. 30/11/09
This past November 5-7 Australia's Chief Scientist, astronomer Professor Penny Sackett attended the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary. This is the second of her two presentations. [More]
Leszek Borysiewicz Nominated to Become Cambridge University's Vice-Chancellor. 28/11/09
The current chief executive of the MRC to take over from Alison Richard in October. [More]
Nature Advises Tories to Delineate Their Research Policies. 26/11/09
It is astonishing... that with all the Conservative Party's rhetoric on how it intends to drag Britain out of recession, it hasn't formulated policy on universities and research. [More]
Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines a Sign of the Future? 25/11/09
Various designs of vertical axis wind turbines have been mooted for several years So far none has gained favour. [More]
Five of Go8 Post Operating Losses for 2008. 23/11/09
The deficit for The University of Melbourne was $210 million. [More]
France's Stimulus Plans for Research Begin to Take Shape. 21/11/09
If the recommendations of a panel chaired by two former French prime ministers are accepted, French science will get its most extreme makeover. [More]
Constraints on Public Higher Education Spending Here and California. 20/11/09
University of California Board of Regents this Thursday approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees 32%. [More]
Group of Eight Calls on Federal Opposition to Stop Playing Political Games with Student Support. 19/11/09
Today's media release from the Group of Eight requires no additional commentary. [More]
No US Senate Climate Bill Before Northern "Early Spring". 18/11/09
US Senator John Kerry (D–MA) told reporters late Monday that he won't try to bring the Senate climate bill to the floor before Copenhagen, begins in less than three weeks. [More]
Vayu -- Capable of Operating at 140 Teraflops -- Australia's New Top Super Computer. 17/11/09 [More]
R&D of E.U. Firms up by 8.1% in 2008. 17/11/09
But China and India, 40% and 27.3% respectively. [More]
CSIRO Administration to Allow Research on Emissions Trading to be Published With "Minor but Important" Changes. 14/11/09
"Therefore, the paper had been "submitted to the journal, with the express permission of the acting chief of division." [More]
Cars, Trucks, Planes, Trains, Ships -- and TREES. 12/11/09 [More]
Wellcome Trust to Award Longer-term Funding Focused on Individual Researchers Rather Than on Specific Research Projects. 12/11/09 [More]
UK's Peter Mandelson Announces Major Review of Higher Education. 09/11/09
The strategy that we are publishing today aims to set a course for an equally successful decade ahead. [More]
Australia's Chief Scientist on the Move. 09/11/09
Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett, has listed the following regarding he efforts during November... [More]
Scientists and the Political Scene. 08/11/09
A couple of paragraphs written over five years apart on separated continents we thought warranted juxtaposing. [More]
CSIRO's Manager for Media Liaison, Huw Morgan: Publishing data is fine... 07/11/09
CSIRO is in the throes of being taught a salutary lesson on how not to produce an unwanted media inflation. [More]
German Chancellor's New Coalition Reaffirms Support for Science and University Research. 06/11/09
Budgets of major research organizations will rise by 5% a year until 2015. [More]
Academic Senate of University of California Sees Increased Graduate Fees as Counterproductive. 05/11/09
At a meeting on October 21, the Academic Council unanimously endorsed concerns about the deleterious impact of graduate student fee increases on students and academic departments. [More]
Is CSIRO's Apparent Self-Censorship Behind an Attempt at Gagging a Researcher? 05/11/09
Dr Spash told the ABC today that when he offered to have the paper published as a private individual he was told that was not an option. [More]
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Research University Rankings by Categories. 04/11/09
In addition to its overall rankings of the world's research universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks the institutions on the basis of a number of "Subjects" and "Fields". [More]
The Australian: "It is Not in the CSIRO's Interests to Censor its Scientists". 04/11/09
CSIRO "was never intended to be a mouthpiece pandering to government sensibilities". [More]
Teachers’ Participation in Research Programs Improves Their Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Science. 02/11/09
Participating teachers’ students passed Regents science exams at a rate that was 10.1% higher (P = 0.049) than that of non-participating teachers’ students. [More]
CSIRO Scientist Claims Managers Wrote to Journal Demanding His Peer Reviewed Paper Not be Published. 02/11/09
Dr Clive Spash: The CSIRO is currently maintaining they have the right to ban the written version of this paper from publication... [More]