One of the world’s great research powerhouses is slipping in research performance. Despite several world-class universities, including the Asia-Pacific’s highest ranking university in the Shanghai Jiao Tong, established government research laboratories and several Nobel Prize winners, Japan’s long-standing reputation as ...

Demand for tertiary education study is likely to fall away as the recession eases and tougher criteria is placed on students, NZ tertiary education minister Steven Joyce said last week. In a parliamentary education select committee meeting, Joyce disagreed with ...

New Zealand is going through the opposite of the Australian experience by restricting access to university after decades of a demand-driven system, writes Dave Guerin. In what might prove to be a salutary tale for Australia, New Zealand’s former government ...

The new UK government is looking to corporations rather than institutions to lead the country out of recession. The peak universities body in the UK – like its Australian counterpart – talks up its members’ recession-busting qualities. UK universities add ...

With the world’s eyes on South Africa, Toby Miller finds that the world game is being denounced as “un-American”. It’s finally the summer break here. In most of the US, that starts in early to mid-May, but the University of ...

Places at many NZ universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school - a move that could stop up to 3500 young people studying where they want. From next year admission rules at ...

An eternal optimist, Dave Guerin was looking forward to the recent NZ budget … despite signs to the contrary. At least the alcohol excise didn’t go up. I love budget time. I love that feeling when you read that your ...

Simon Haines sees a new hybrid world being born out of the English language and Chinese crowds. Our local shopping mall, five minutes away in the car, is one of the busiest in the world. More people go through its ...