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...
The International Education Review Panel's 2011 report has been published but is of little interest. No decisions were made in 2011 but we took the opportunity to also review the...
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 9 April. A student loan bill was passed while a bill on lobbying was drawn from the members' ballot. Answers to graduate income...