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Reforming Australia’s research training system and providing more funding support could help increase PhD completion rates for Indigenous students.
Between 50-75% of all collaborations fail. Here are some tips on how to set up a successful collaboration between academia and industry.
The new impact framework will improve some of the problems arising out of the ERA’s university research audit, but major challenges will remain.
The innovation report fails to mention the risk of bias for researchers collaborating with industry. We must ensure that researchers maintain their independence.
Making the whole process of auditing research open to the public could help reduce the capacity for universities to game the system.
A government report on research funding and policy has recommended introducing a funding incentive to ensure university research benefits society and business.
Publicly-funded research should contribute to society in some way. But we need to think carefully about how we create a system that allows us to measure the impact of research.
Being up front about what public investment goes towards in higher education is an important step for providing greater clarity for students.
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.
With Christmas not far off, universities will be hoping for some early presents in the form of good results in the UK’s long-awaited assessment of the quality of university research. Although the funding…
Think of a researcher measuring the trajectory of a laser beam in a university physics lab or a history professor digging through a church’s long-lost archives and their work can often feel far removed…
Scotland is home to some of Europe’s oldest universities, and the sector plays a key role in the economy there. But what impact would independence have on it? This week academics have been doing battle…
In the pharmaceutical industry there is a place known as the Valley of Death. It is the place between research and innovation where many drugs enter but fail to emerge from the other side. One reason for…
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