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The higher education funding system is set to be reformed to ensure that universities make a greater contribution to the UK’s economic needs, it was announced last week. David Lammy, the higher education minister, told the a Universities UK conference: ...

The wisdom of some of the world’s best researchers is now freely available following another step toward open access by Harvard University. Last week, the university launched its digital access to scholarship at Harvard (DASH) – a university-wide, open-access repository ...

A recent decision regarding ownership of IP by academic staff has some serious ramifications for universities, write Lynne Peach and Kylie Diwell. If universities want to ensure that they own inventions developed by academic staff in the course of their ...

<<<Universities are in for a rocky time as the age of digital technology heads into its second phase, writes Beverley Head.>>> Higher education institutions in the digital age are like frogs in a pot – and it’s getting uncomfortably warm. ...

In vino veritasimal reproduction. All those scientific compounds were coined in C20, though the – potent element has been used for hundreds of years to express the ultimate form of power, in religion (omnipotent) and in government (plenipotent), and as ...

Peter Junk tells a story of a time when he worked at a regional university and a local company had a major caustic soda spill into a stream. “It was a horrible mess,” he says. “The pH of the stream ...

Australia needs to work toward greater integration into the global science effort, writes Kurt Lambeck. The importance of Australia being integrated into international science is obvious to most of us who have worked in science. Without our overseas experience, without ...

Getting high achievers to the Olympics is never easy and increasingly science is the key to getting athletes onto the podium. Now Australian science faculties are helping young thinkers perform in their own Olympics – the International Science Olympiads. This ...