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There are a number of stumbling blocks to intra African collaboration. These must be addressed to ensure that research is not duplicated and that findings are shared.
In an atmosphere of declining government funding for science, researchers can drum up excitement and funding in other ways, just as they did in Edwardian times.
Indonesia finally has a multi-year funding scheme to finance long-term world-class scientific research.
In the race to apply for research funding, writing statements about future impact can feel like a charade.
State support for public research universities declined by 28 percent between 2003 and 2013. So, why does it matter?
Indonesia should cultivate a culture of peer-review to support academics produce basic social research, essential in creating good policies in the world’s fourth most populous country.
An emphasis on innovation is great, but we need genuine reforms to universities and tax incentives if we’re to promote collaboration between research and industry.
Women are just as successful as men at winning grants, but there are far fewer of them applying. The ARC’s new Gender Equality Action Plan aims to redress that.
It’s hard enough to get research funding in Australia, so what if your work falls outside one of the areas declared a “priority”?
We can’t fulfil Malcolm Turnbull’s ambition for an innovative nation without understanding why researchers are struggling to engage with industry.
A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
The latest round of research grant funding has been announced, and many worthy researchers have not made the cut. Why?
A new policy on research outputs and funding will be introduced in South Africa in 2016. But it leaves too much unchanged from the old policy.
The challenge for a 21st century Australian government is to capitalise on research and create new jobs, industries and opportunities for the coming century.
When government funding is cut from science and research in Australia, there are other ways to try to draw money from the public’s purse?
Academics’ own propensity for plagiarism may be contributing to high levels of student plagiarism.
There are no UK universities in the top ten list of institutions that have won the most Nobel Prizes since 2000.
We need to know what ‘good’ interdisciplinary research looks like.
A report out of the UK would have the quality assessors of research abolished because it takes time away from students. However the real reason seems to be an attempt to minimise government spending on research.
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