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Review process receives hundreds of responses after widespread unrest among members

This week: healthcare diversity, Royal Society fellows and a meeting of Pacific education ministers

Review of New Zealand’s proposed Therapeutic Products Bill hears concerns over red tape

New Zealand-wide higher education centre needs “to stay fit for purpose in today’s environment”
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This week: RNA development, a drug approval and a Performance-Based Research Fund appointment

New Zealand announces cooperation programme prompted by biosecurity concerns

Agreement details financial contributions of first far-flung country expected to join EU R&D programme

Vaccine alliance is seeking private support to progress beyond phase one trials

This week: Te Pūnaha Matatini principal investigators, an Auckland appointment and a Scott Base date

Rural and marginalised communities urged to complete census to help with future planning

New Zealand post-disaster guidelines urge sensitivity and warn against causing further stress to victims

This week: Auckland unrest, health spending, gender equality and sustainable development

Applications from court sentencing to conservation are being explored

Politics and interest groups are trumping science in biodiversity battle, researchers find

This week: an Endeavour extension, Horizon Europe access and struggling museums

Researchers can now apply to lead consortia under R&D programme’s second pillar

Formal briefing outlines cost pressures on New Zealand’s higher education sector

This week: Tertiary Education Union priorities, RNA advances and synthetic biology

State of emergency sends staff and students home from universities

Consultation paper on New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund outlines changes to evidence portfolios

New Zealand government to provide NZ$10 million a year to develop Māori engagement with science

This week: Covid underreporting, Chinese students, abusive messages and a new vice-chancellor

Reports from land and biological heritage challenges emphasise achievements of New Zealand research networks

New prime minister announces ministerial changes, with Ayesha Verrall retaining the science and research portfolio

This week: Antarctic research, Covid impacts and light pollution

Goals and operation for next 20 years under review

Issues with national database of research and expertise “require additional time to address”

This week: narrative CVs, a wildlife AI app and a court order on redundancies

Chris Hipkins to be formally sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister this week

Outgoing Universities New Zealand chair calls for more recognition of higher education’s “crucial role”

This week: tributes to a late academic, R&D tax breaks and a health council rejig

Ministry of Health promises changes after trials system slammed

This week: gender pay gaps and health research projects

Auckland University of Technology withdraws redundancy notices after ruling by New Zealand’s Employment Relations Authority

Māori astronomy researcher honoured alongside Covid-19 experts and many others

Opportunities for collaboration welcomed but Horizon Europe should be even more open, groups say

First ever distant country to agree association to EU R&D programme will join second pillar