The Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcement delay is increasingly raising concerns among researchers. ARC-funded projects are required to begin research on 1 January 2019. As the date draws closer, researchers are complaining that adequate preparation time is being compromised by ...

By now, you well know that the former education minster's use of an arcane piece of legislation has caused furore among academics. Simon Birmingham's unannounced, unexplained veto of several research grants, all conferred to humanities researchers, has raised doubts about ...

The hard sciences have once again been the big beneficiaries from the latest round of new funding for Australian Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs). Just a fortnight after the intensive second round interviews, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator ...