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In Australia, scandals about the management of public universities continue to be covered in the media. A recent one is the use of billions ...

It all about values! Universities have changed dramatically over the course of my lifetime. Australian universities are receiving increasing...

Bribie Island, just north of Brisbane. The University of Queensland has just advertised several jobs that may be of interest to readers of t...

Universities and scientific research in the USA are facing a dire future. Understandably, some scientists are considering leaving the USA. I...

I continue to follow the situation in the USA concerning the future of science with concern. Here are some of the articles I found most info...

Elite universities in the USA have nurtured and enhanced my whole academic life. In 1983, I moved to the USA as an international student, co...

Adventures of a Bystander , by Peter Drucker , contains the following account. Drucker was a faculty member at Frankfurt University in 1933....

The advice that follows is directed to young people who are starting out in requesting funding for a project or an annual budget. My advice ...

 Is real scientific progress slowing? Are funders of research, whether governments, corporations, or philanthropies, getting a good return o...

Everyone likes to be right. But, sometimes I really wish I was wrong, particularly about problems I see in the world. I wish I was wrong abo...

Emergence is one of the most important concepts in the sciences: from physics to biology to sociology. Most of the big questions in science ...

 We live in different times. There is some anecdotal evidence that this year admissions to leading graduate schools in the USA have become a...

Will there be big new discoveries? Will old problems be solved?   I have finished my draft of, "An endless frontier"  the last cha...

 There are two aspects to this question concerning the future of condensed matter physics. First, are there big things to be discovered? If ...

One way to answer this question is to look at the reports prepared every decade by the National Academies in the USA. I have recently been l...

Some people might expect me to be enthused that the Australian government recently announced  that the tuition costs for university degrees ...

A helpful starting point for me when considering universities after the pandemic is the cover story of The Economist , from two weeks ago, ...

There is a growing discussion of what changes might result from the pandemic: changes in societies, in institutions, and to us as individual...