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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]
10 a.m. Monday, the 2011 US Federal Budget to be Released. 30/01/10 [More]
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. 29/01/10
Announcement of the first of the twelve 2009 winners of a competition for Web sites that best promote science education. [More]
Australia’s Chief Scientist Discusses Certainty and the Science of Climate Change. 28/01/10
Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett, today released the following statement, introducing an apologia for the science of climate change by pointing out that the process of science is inherently self-critical and must continue to be. [More]
ScienceInsider's Eli Kintisch asks: "Is a Full-Economy Cap-and-Trade Program [for the US] Dead in the Water?" 28/01/10 [More]
UK Universities Told the Time Has Come to Forage. 26/01/10
Britain's universities will have to find new sources of money from industry and abroad to see them through a "good few years". [More]
Synthetic Biology and Multidisciplinary Science. 23/01/10
"[B]iological knowledge will require synthetic approaches if it is to become a mature and reasonably predictive science." [More]
Just Maybe Those Boffins are Good for Something. 21/01/10
Could raining food on the survivors of last week's earthquake be a better way to help starving Haitians? [More]
Science Minister Announces Distribution of $1.42 Billion for Higher Education Research. 20/01/10
$610 million to go to the Research Training Scheme, $321 million for Joint Research Engagement. [More]
CSIRO Hydrologist States Current Data Insufficient to Link Decade of Tasmanian Drought to Global Warming. 19/01/10
At this stage, we'd prefer to say we're talking about natural variability. [More]
Britain's Million+ Universities Call for Fair Funding For All. 18/01/10
We aim to develop and shape public policy and funding regimes on a non-party basis... [More]
African Physicists Gather in Dakar: The SKA a Topic for Discussion. 15/01/10
The reality of Africa's bid is that its chances to win the SKA will require "unprecedented regional scientific cooperation..." [More]
University of California Claims a Record 134,000 Undergraduate Applications up 6% from Last Year. 15/01/10
Although planning a 32% increase in undergraduate fees for the coming academic year but applications rose from 127,000 to 134,000. [More]
UK Conservative Shadow Universities Secretary Promises REF Delay If Tories Win Government. 15/01/10
Mr Willetts made the personal observation that he was in favour of delay because it would allow academics to spend more time on research and teaching. [More]
Britain Looks to Australia's RQF as a Model for Assessing Research Impact. 14/01/10
It could be "a promising basis" for Britain's Research Excellence Framework (REF) but place a major burden on institutions and create "undesirable perceptions and incentives". [More]
Assessing the Quality of University Teaching. 13/01/10
Perhaps start with the requirement that instructors should know, understand and have an interest in their subject(s). [More]
Bob Park and the Mobile Phone. 11/01/10
The vigorous opponent of pseudoscience asks: So does the miniscule energy deposited by the cell phone cook your brain? [More]
PCAST January 7, 2010. 09/01/10
The first meeting of the US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) for 2010 took place on January 7. Video clips of the meeting are now available. [More]
Academics' Criticism of UK's Research Excellence Framework Escalates. 08/01/10
Where are the next generation of Albert Einsteins going to come from if we seek to control research in this way? It is wrong to try and measure projects purely on their economic potential. [More]
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in His Final State of the State Address Proposes to Shift Funds from Prisons to Higher Education. 07/01/10
Governor Schwarzenegger said: "Spending 45% more on prisons than universities is no way to proceed into the future." [More]
US President Barack Obama Publicises Science Education. 07/01/10
The United States needs "to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade." [More]
Nature Asked Stanford's President What He Sees for Universities Come 2020. 07/01/10
Among a group of researchers and policy makers the journal Nature spoke with Stanford University's president John Hennessy and asked his opinion of whither universities come 2020. [More]
Pro V-C Cambridge Says HEFCE's Proposals Would Turn "First-rate Universities into Second-rate Companies". 04/01/10
HEFCE received a petition signed by over 12,000 academics opposing the plan. [More]
Governance of Australian Synchrotron Continues to be at Issue. 03/01/10
Whether or not Ms Walter and the board are able to learn from what appear to be serious errors in their methods of governance or remain simply in denial is unresolved. [More]
The Receding Prospect of Effective Implementation of Greenhouse Gas Emission Legislation. 03/01/10
In the US Senate a two-thirds majority is needed to ratify any international treaty. [More]
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Bad Ideas Whose Time is Nye. Dame Julia Higgins: “The vice-chancellors want to use it [the RAE] as a management tool; that’s the problem.” [More]
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Eight Years on - Where are Australia's Universities in Relation to Their Cohort? In 2020 Australia will not be competitive with the top group of OECD countries in terms of the performance of higher education if there is a failure to act now: Bradley Review. [More]
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Chief Scientist's First Blog for 2010. I encourage you to look me up on facebook and to send me your feedback. [More]
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