For the Australian ­ 7 June 2014 ­ Brian P Schmidt Along with Education and Infrastructure, Investing in Research and Development is the key way in which Governments invest in the long-term future prosperity of the country. ... This money is distributed to the higher education sector through a complicated set of government grants for research and student fees. ... In theory, deregulation of student fees will allow universities to differentiate on the type of education they provide. ...

... In honor of his fundamental contribution to the understanding of the motions of the planets and his unflagging pursuit of the truth, NASA named the first telescope dedicated to the discovery of planets around other stars in his honor: the Kepler Space Telescope. ... The most natural extension of t h ese effor t s is t o conduct a survey of the sky, hunting for planets like Earth around other stars. ... So if Earth-like planets are common around Sun-like stars, a few hundred planets will be found. ...