Category: Notes & Updates
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Science self-corrections, plagiarism, and the purpose of higher education
About this post: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning, and academic writing, which appeared online between 17th and 23rd February 2014. This week’s collection of articles, stories and posts showcases examples of academic honesty at its finest and politics at what is perhaps…
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Plagiarism, creationism and attacks on tenure
This post is a roundup of academic-related stories, articles and other content that appeared online between 10 and 16 February 2014. Plagiarism case of the month Every month, the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE), an authoritative forum of journal editors, publishes a report summarising its activities. This month’s report features an interesting case of academic…
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Adjuncting, publishing and redefining linguistics
About this post: This is a curated summary of articles, blog posts and other content about Higher Education and TESOL/ELT, which were published between 3rd and 9th February 2014. I was told off last week for posting too much depressing news. In view of this, it’s best that I begin this week’s selection of articles,…
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Some ugly aspects of academia
About this post: This is a collection of articles, stories and other web content that appeared online between 27th January and 2nd Febrary 2014. It was published as part of the ‘This week I read…’ segment of my blog (www.achilleaskostoulas.com) The Just-in-time Professor The US House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce have released…
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Research misconduct, tuition fees and enrollment
About this post: This is a summary of posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which was published in late January 2015. University life getting uglier Since the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees, there appears to have been a marked increase in the numbers of students who…
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Humanities, defamation and internships
This is a collection of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published between the 13th and 19th January 2014. This week’s stories discuss: The value of a humanities education In an essay published at the Chronicle, Kristen Case argues against the criticism that humanities…
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Reading Digest (6 – 12 January)
Spanning topics from schools, to language policy, to the job market, here’s a selection of stories, articles and posts from the previous week: Children playing pirates An argument could easily be made that since developing children’s creativity and broadening their intellectual horizons is a worthier cause than safeguarding corporate profit, schools should be exempt from…
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Reading Digest (30 Dec – 5 Jan)
Starting off the new year with a fresh selection of articles, stories and posts which grabbed my attention in the past week: Next time, let’s read the fine print… Writing in the wake of Elsevier’s takedown operation, Barbara Fischer, a college librarian provides some insights into the fine print of academic publishing. Her blog post,…
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Reading Digest (23-29 December)
Predictably, this has been a relatively quiet week in terms of academic news. Still, here is the weekly round up of notable articles, posts and stories that I came across in the week between 23rd and 29th December 2013: Cracking down on knowledge sharing The first story that caught my attention this week was about…