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For Maths It's Déjà Vu All Over Again. (March 15, 2010)
On March 10, 2010 the Group of Eight universities released its Review of Education in Mathematics, Data Science and Quantitative Disciplines. [More]
Snapshots of Australia's Climate 1960 - 2009 and More. 15/03/10
CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have combined to present this picture of Australia’s climate. [More]
Historian Geoffrey Alderman's Assessment of the British University Sector Has Relevance for Australia. 15/03/10
An interrelationship of toxic factors is responsible for the worsening standards in British universities. [More]
Canadian Science Budget a Bit Thin This Year. 06/03/10
And the announcement that the government will conduct the latest in a series of reviews of federal science spending has met with a collective groan. [More]
Dates for PMSEIC and PCAST Announced. 06/03/10 [More]
Cuts at King's College, London: a Comment of Wide Significance by Iain Pears. 05/03/10
Proposals for draconian cuts of academic staff at King's College London have justly aroused condemnation from the world of academia and beyond, not only for their savagery, but for the way they are being implemented. [More]
Perhaps It Was as Inevitable as Death and Taxes. 04/03/10
Critics of the teaching of evolution in US classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming. [More]
John Holdren Comments on the Proposed US R&D Budget. 04/03/10
Even within a tight budget, the president is proposing a 6.4 percent increase for civilian research and development. [More]
Ms Gillard Gives Universities Australia a Rousing Pep Talk to Go Forth and Educate Fiercely. 03/03/10
The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion, Deputy Prime Minister. Address to the Universities Australia Annual Higher Education Conference. [More]
Britain's Council for Science and Technology Issues A Vision for UK Research. 03/03/10
The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is the UK Prime Minister’s top-level advisory body on science and technology policy issues, Gordon Brown's equivalent of US President Barack Obama's PCAST. [More]
Helga Nowotny Assumes Presidency of European Research Council; Fotis Kafatos Returns to Research. 02/03/10
Fotis Kafatos: "I don't begrudge the time I spent on the ERC, but I would be foolish not to step down now — it was consuming me." [More]
A University Consists Not of its Estate, but... its Academic Staff : Jonathan Wolff. 02/03/10
If a university starts to shed academic staff, the international marketplace responds. [More]
As Utah Goes So Goes the World? 26/02/10
Is this a portend of an engulfing trend? [More]
UK Government's Principles for Independent Scientific Advice Further Scrutinised. 25/02/10
Science minister Paul Drayson said that two of the most controversial issues in the government's proposed principles will be changed. [More]
Australian Science Media Centre Produces Q&A on Climate Change. 25/02/10
After conversations and emails from a number of individuals, the Australian Science Media Centre decided to put the most pressing questions about climate change to a panel of climate scientists. [More]
Clive Spash Interviewed by ABC's Mark Colvin. 25/02/10
The Minister responsible for CSIRO, Senator Kim Carr, on February 11 referred Senate Estimates to an external review which he said labelled a paper by Dr Spash as "weak polemical journalism". [More]
Elizabeth Blackburn Offers Some Sage Advice to Budding Graduate Science Students. 24/02/10
"My feeling is not to get too cross-disciplinary and shallow and spread all over the place too quick," [More]
Undergraduate Research, an Important Source Of Breakthrough Research and Future STEM PhDs. 24/02/10
Is the model of Excellence for Research in Australia being promoted by Senator Kim Carr as Minister for Research in the best interests of Australia's future? [More]
National Science Board: What Federal Research Officials Must do to Keep US World's Leading Scientific Power. 24/02/10
"...Our nation's future prosperity and security depend on strong and unwavering Federal commitment to this goal." [More]
13 Months of Science and Obama -- an Eric Lander Condensed Summary. 23/02/10
Helen Pearson, Nature's Chief Features Editor posts a blog from AAAS-2010. [More]
Wellcome Trust Announces Strategic Plan 2010 - 2020. 23/02/10
Reflecting the long-term view they intend to take in supporting biomedical research. [More]
Australian PhD and Masters Through Research Among Lowest in Developed World. 22/02/10
Australian National University vice-chancellor Ian Chubb calls it "a national calamity". [More]
Minister for Science and Research Seeks Comments on $52 Million to Support Universities Research Collaboration. 22/02/10
To "help less research-intensive, smaller and regional universities develop their research capabilities..." [More]
Recent Alterations to the Mechanism of ERA Cast Further Doubt on Its Efficacy. 19/02/10
The irrationality of the ERA is becoming increasingly obvious except as a micro-managerial administrative tool. [More]
Copenhagen -- Two Views. 19/02/10
In Adelaide yesterday Senator Penny Wong, federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, welcomed delegates to the first national forum on coasts and climate change. [More]
The Elephant "Glide"? 19/02/10 [More]
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Bimonthly Meetings. 18/02/10
A possible proxy for the importance heads of government place on science may be the frequency of meetings of their scientific advisory councils. [More]
One Year On, US Universities Highlight Benefits of Additional Research Funding Provided by the Stimulus Package. 18/02/10
Of the US$787 billion contained in the ARRA, U$21.5 billion is allocated for research and science infrastructure. [More]
Announcement of Q&A with Australia’s Chief Scientist and 2009 Nobel Laureate Australian Elizabeth Blackburn. 17/02/10 [More]
Joe Klein on Sarah Palin Think. 17/02/10 [More]
Weather is Not Climate. 15/02/10
Does the US East Coast's "snowpocalypse" disprove global warming, or is it a harbinger of a warmer world? [More]
Senate Estimates Interview of CSIRO Chief Executive Has Clive Spash Break His Silence. 12/02/10
And Senator Carr, referred the Senate committee to an external review which labelled the paper "weak polemical journalism". [More]
Universities Foresee Requirement of Additional $10 bn-$15bn by 2025 To Achieve Meeting Participation Targets. 10/02/10
But deputy secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research made it clear -- the federal budget would be tight. [More]
Ireland's Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is the Newly Designated European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science. 10/02/10
Ms Geoghegan-Quinn has already stated that she wants to create a less bureaucratic framework... [More]
Further (well a bit) to the Governance of the Australian Synchrotron. 10/02/10note added 12/02/10
At the AS, Lamb's surprising removal is seen as part of a bigger problem of governance. [More]
President of CHASS, Praises Inspiring Australia: A National Strategy for Engagement with the Sciences. 09/02/10
"The report recognises the contribution of the humanities, arts and social science disciplines in problem-solving..." [More]
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Launches "NOAA Climate Services" Website. 09/02/10
It's slick, informative and currently runs on fumes (US$1.5 million). [More]
Science Minister Speaks at RMIT, Releases Inspiring Australia: A National Strategy for Engagement with the Sciences. 08/02/10
This past Friday the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research spoke at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to representatives of the Australian Technology Network of Universities. [More]
Some Trends from Science and Engineering Indicators 2010. 08/02/10 [More]
The Call for Entries for 2010 Eureka Prizes. 05/02/10
Entries opened today 5 February 2010 to enter the competition for the Australian Museum's 2010 Eureka Prizes. You can enter yourself, or nominate someone. [More]
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) a Top Priority of Steven Chu. 05/02/10
Dr Chu is convinced that an agency whose director has been on board for only a few months and whose staff could fit around a dining room table will accomplish great things. [More]
Executive Director, Go8 Expresses Views on Performance Funding Indicators and Related Reforms in Australian Higher Education.05/02/10
What started out as rather desirable policy objectives... [are becoming] a narrow and highly prescriptive straightjacket. [More]
The Expensive Exercise in Futility of Carr's Folly Continues. 04/02/10
"The establishment of Excellence in Research Australia, which will tell us exactly how well we are doing compared to the world's best." [More]
Universities Australia Puts in Its 2010/11 Budget Submission. 04/02/10
"An investment of 0.6% of GDP to fully implement the Bradley Review’s recommendations will generate a long run gain of 6% of GDP." [More]
Yale University's President Says Chinese Institutions Will Rank in World's Top 10 Universities in 25 Years. 04/02/10
The Chinese government now spends at least 1.5% of its gross domestic product on higher education. [More]
Federal Ministers for Education and for Research Publish Their Assessment of "Higher Education Revolution on Track" 03/02/10 [More]
R&D Do Well in US President Obama's 2011 Budget Request. 03/02/10
John Marburger, former president George W. Bush's science advisor said: "It's very gratifying to see science treated this way in a time of very severe budgetary constraint." [More]
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Is Australia Doomed to Lack Opportunities for Pursuing High-risk, Open-ended Science? Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn asks. [More]
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Looking Back -- The RQF: Concentrating on Our Research Strengths. First published by Peter Hall as the "President's Column" in May 2007 in the Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society. [More]
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