News & Views Index |
University of Adelaide Retiring V-C Tells Federal Government Like It Is. 29/06/12
Decries our universities' over dependence on overseas students' fees. [More]
The Search for a Deeper Understanding of Our Universe at the Large Hadron Collider. 28/06/12
The Royal Society's brilliant 2012 International Lecture by Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN's Director General. [More]
A Necessary Condition for a Great Research University. 26/06/12
"It was a lot easier to run a cabinet department than the University of Wisconsin." [More]
Teaching Maths Beats Sitting in Front of a Spreadsheet. 25/06/12
But "You've got to understand the subject and have a breadth of knowledge to be able to teach it well". [More]
Nature Discuses Five Questions Regarding the Mutation of H5N1 Influenza to Allow Direct Mammalian Transmission. 22/06/12 [More]
Tentative Agenda for the July 19, 2012 Meeting of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 22/06/12
Featured will be An Assessment and Outlook for Nuclear Physics and The White House Neuroscience Initiative and Advances in Neuroscience. [More]
US National Research Council to Determine Impact of Federal Regulations on Academia. 21/06/12
Just how much red tape will be detailed by the National Academies and just what might be done about it could make entertaining reading. [More]
UK Government Panel Recommends Open Access for All Publicly Funded Research Publications; Gets Mixed Support. 20/06/12 [More]
Australia's 2012 Innovation Challenge.20/06/12
Backyard Innovation, is open to the general public and has a
$10,000 prize.
The Prospects for the STEM Major. 20/06/12
"Six of my friends completed PhDs this year and only one of them has been able to secure a post-doctoral appointment." [More]
The Acceptance and Progress of Wind Power. 18/06/12
A Chinese energy planner's goal is to put 150,000 MW of wind power on-line by 2020. [More]
Germany Expands Its Group of "Elite Universities". 18/06/12
Five new institutions replace three which have been dropped from the group. [More]
US National Academies Report on the Future of the Nation's Research Universities. 16/06/12
US Congress asked: How can we assure the ability of the American research university to maintain the excellence in research and doctoral education? [More]
NIH Panel Notes Overabundance in Biomedical Research Trainees for Academic Posts. 15/06/12
The NIH should... equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period. [More]
Nobelist Elizabeth Blackburn Talks to High-Schoolers on Her Take on Life as a Scientist. 14/06/12
She is eager to convey that science "is something that is both interesting in itself and can give you lots of joy as a profession and a career." [More]
PeerJ to Charge Authors Maximum of US$299 for Lifetime-Unlimited Open-Access Publications and Submissions. 14/06/12
Articles will be peer reviewed for scientific validity — but not for importance or impact. [More]
Federal Government Releases Issues Paper on Higher Education Staff Data Review. 12/06/12
It poses 22 questions for comment. [More]
NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Mary O'Kane, Asks: Does Australia Have the Education System Its Future Needs? 09/06/12
Australians are a competitive bunch that’s for sure. You just need to note our collective obsession with sport to recognise this. But... [More]
US National Academies Press to Release its Study on American Research Universities. 09/06/12
The 250-page report, Research Universities and the Future of America is the response of the National Academies to a request of the US Congress. [More]
Changes Between 2005 and 2010 in Academic Publications -- Numbers, Acceptances, Rejections. 07/06/12
Notable is the wide range in acceptance rates of manuscripts from the different nations. [More]
Appeal to NSW Governor, University of Sydney Chancellor Marie Basher to Stop 23 Academics Being Declared Redundant. 06/06/12 [More]
Eight of Astronomy's Greatest Mysteries.04/06/12
And in at least one case, experts aren't sure that a seemingly simple question will ever be answered. [More]
US National Science Foundation Reports on STEM Graduate Enrolments Over Past Decade. 03/06/12
Enrolment by first-time, full-time graduate students in science and engineering fields has increased 35% from 2000 to 2010. [More]