Australian research policy
The panel’s overriding concern is to ensure that research is used productively. But observers worry that pushing universities to specialise in centrally determined ‘focus areas’ risks inadvertently turning them, in effect, into government agencies. John Ross reports
Registration requirements and compact negotiations would be reformed to funnel universities into ‘focus areas’, under panel’s draft proposals
Association would have ‘a multiplier effect on research resources and scientific effort’, advocates say
Country will lack the expertise to achieve next-generation priorities if funding left at mercy of undergraduate enrolments, Academy of Science analysis finds
Excluding academia from the main discussions at recent national productivity summit is short-sighted and complacent, says Shamit Saggar
Amid claims outcomes of long-anticipated talkfest have been orchestrated in advance, expert says precursor events promise ‘substance’
Submissions to Australian Strategic Examination insist A$11 billion scheme is ‘not as effective as it could be’
Economic reform begins with injecting order into the hotchpotch of research programmes, and enticing more locals into higher study, according to Australian body
