Parliament was quiet this week, but a few interesting answers to written questions about Christchurch activities were filed. The Minister basically said "I'll get back to you", which is odd....
Take on the Week This week was all about research, with many interesting stories, so it seemed sensible to bring them together for you. The TEC proposed changes to the calculation of...
The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships have been reviewed and various apparently sensible tweaks have been made to the scheme. Of more interest to universities will be the brief discussion of wider...
Gaming by universities of the PBRF system has influenced the TEC to propose a major change to the calculation of the Average Quality Score. They propose to drop all staff...
The McGuinness Institute, a thinktank, produced a report on government-funded science in March that is probably not worth reading. While it has some useful information and ideas, it is overly...
The Graduate Longitudinal Study of NZ will track graduates over ten years and the first report, of completing students, has been published. It is an interesting report, but most people...