News & Views Index |
The Occupy Movement at the University of California, Davis. 29/11/11
Chair, Davis Division of the Academic Senate has issued "a preliminary assessment of the events occurring on November 18, 2011. [More]
Israeli Council for Higher Education Committee Recommends University's Politics Department Should be Abolished Unless... 28/11/11
Rivka Carmi the university's president says the report is "much ado about nothing." [More]
Creating Professional Science Liaison/Interpreters for K-12. 25/11/11
Bruce Alberts is Editor-in-Chief of Science and he has a bone to pick with the nation's (US) educators... [More]
Federal Government Designates Additional $1.2 Billion Over 4-Years For Universities. 25/11/11
Included are support for student demand-driven funding, higher ceilings payable for certain Government grants and Scholarships. [More]
California and Carbon Emissions. 24/11/11
The 2006 law aims to reduce California’s global warming pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. [More]
UNSW Scoops the Pool of NSW Science and Engineering Awards for 2011. 23/11/11
In the past five years Professor Simmons has pioneered a radical technology for making electronic devices atom by atom in silicon. [More]
Universities Show Surpluses of >$1.9 billion Says Evans -- University of Sydney to Slash 300-340 Full-Time Staff. 22/11/11 [More]
European Union Names its First Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA). 22/11/11
Anne Glover holds the Chair in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen and is currently CSA of Scotland. [More]
AAS Issues a Plea That Australia Not Become a Science Freeloader. 22/11/11
The Australian Government’s main program for supporting strategic international science collaboration was terminated in June, 2011. [More]
I Have a Hazy Notion of What a Logarithm is. 20/11/11
Success at teaching science and math to secondary-age youngsters depends on two things, the teacher’s connection to the students, and a deep knowledge of the subject. [More]
Physics Today Has A Chat With Australia's Chief Scientist.19/11/11
Besides seeking to improve the health of science at home, Chubb and his fellow policy makers want Australia to play a bigger international role. [More]
Cathy Foley Asks: Has Australia Become a Mendicant Nation When It Comes to International Science Collaboration? 18/11/11 [More]
US Congress Spits the Dummy, Cuts OSTP's Budget by ⅓ . 16/11/11
In May this year OSTP hosted meetings with Chinese officials contrary to a federal law enacted the month before. [More]
Announcement of Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA). 15/11/11
We expect it to give a broader range of opportunities to researchers earlier in their careers -- ARC Chief Executive, Professor Sheil. [More]
Which End of the Dog Should You Believe. 14/11/11
Universities accumulated surpluses of more than $1.9 billion OR half or more of the funds referred to relate to future funding. [More]
An "International Education and Research Task Force" for New South Wales. 12/11/11
The taskforce will work with the NSW Government to develop a 10 year International Education and Research Industry Action Plan for the sector. [More]
NSF Director Subra Suresh Announces New Program to Fund "Out-of-the-box Ideas". 10/11/11
Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures -- up to $1 million over 5 years bypassing traditional merit-review process. [More]
Report to Canadian Government Seeks to Upgrade Business R&D. 10/11/11
It notes that business innovation in Canada lags behind other highly developed countries and that business R&D spending has been falling since 2006. [More]
Monash University's Retrenched Professor Awarded ARC Discovery Grants. 09/11/11 [More]
How Will Australia Vote On Abolition of the Leap Second? 09/11/11
The International Telecommunications Union is scheduled to meet in January next year in Geneva. [More]
Applications for National Science Week Grants Are Called. 08/11/11 [More]
Paul Krugman's Take on the Rise and Rise of Solar Power. 07/11/11
[T]here’s now frequent talk of a ‘Moore’s law’ in solar energy... [More]
The Parable of Rudolf Mössbauer, a Physics Department and Research Excellence. 07/11/11 [More]
Research Impact -- Senator Carr Takes a Second Look. 07/11/11
The study may show us that the idea is simply not feasible in practice... [More]
Archive of the PCAST November 2, 2011 Webcast. 04/11/11
Public Comment - Some tough talk on progress on the draft policies to ensure integrity by government agencies regarding dissemination of scientific findings. [More]
UK Teenagers Bring High Court Challenge Against University Tuition Increases. 02/11/11
Grounds to be argued before the court include that the rise in fees is in breach of the right to education protected in the Human Rights Act 1998. -- Updated Nov.3 [More]
Federal Government's Attempt to Placate TAFEs Angers Universities While Student : Staff Ratios Soar. 02/11/11
The average number of undergraduates and other coursework students for each university teacher has risen from 25.2 in 2000 to 34.1. [More]
PCAST Agenda for November 2, 2011 Meeting. 01/11/11
Will include Overview of the National Research Council Report and Overview of the American Chemical Society. [More]