With the number of learned papers published each year rising, the peer review system might be expected to be fraying at the seams. But an international survey of academics states that two thirds are satisfied with the current system for ...

The widening scope of Youth Allowance has been broadly welcomed, but the sector’s peak lobby group says the Government needs to revisit the issue as soon as economic conditions improve. “It is a simple fact that income support for Australian ...

Universities may need to negotiate case-by-case agreements with individual researchers if they hope to benefit from the inventions developed during the course of their employment, following a decision in the Federal Court. Most universities are now seeking legal advice as ...

Dr Sharon Friel, an international expert on food poverty from ANU, was one of 200 mid-career researchers who received a Future Fellowship grant last week from the Australian Research Council. It was worth about $740,000 over four years. “When I ...

UWA poet to chair literature boardr for the Northern Territory. School principal goes to UNSW The former principal of Sydney Girls’ High School, Dr Margaret Varady, has taken a position at UNSW. Varady has been appointed coordinator of the new ...

Having been confronted with a case of academic plagiarism, Christina Slade ponders the pressure to publish at all costs. Last weekend, we visited Down House, in Kent where Charles Darwin lived with his young family. 2009 is the bicentenary of ...

Obama targets soaring drop-out rates The US Congress has proposed a $A3 billion college access and completion fund to rectify worsening completion rates. Between 2000 and 2008, 30 per cent of students left in their first year and as many ...

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 ...