Research hogs ‘rort’ the system

Bernard Lane,  The Australian Higher Education Supplement

TOP universities were using marriages of convenience with medical research institutes to inflate their research income and prestige and to secure an unfair slice of sought-after block funds for infrastructure, university chief Ross Milbourne said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25542676-12332,00.html

California’s Budget Problems Leave Community Colleges Holding IOU’s

Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education

When California approved its budget last month, the community-college system managed to escape the sharp budget cuts that befell most other agencies. But the state’s fiscal troubles have nonetheless created a cash crisis for two-year colleges.

As part of its…

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i26/26a00101.htm