Category: Other
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Ethical tensions in education
A collection of news stories that highlight various ethical (and occassionally trivial) tensions in education.
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Announcing the ELF7 Pre-conference event
With the 7th Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF7; link no longer active) drawing near, a pre-conference panel discussion will be held on 8th May 2014 (6-9pm, ALBA at The American College of Greece). This is definitely going to be an interesting discussion, as the panel members include: Yasemin Bayyurt, Boğaziçi University, Turkey Richard…
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International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting [Call for Papers]
The 10th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2014) (link no longer active) will be held on 29th-31st of October 2014 in Manchester, UK. The theme of this year’s conference is Intersect, Innovate, Interact: New Directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies. The IPCITI Conference is co-rganised by Dublin City University, Heriot-Watt University, the University…
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Three perspectives on academic integrity
This blog post brings together three news stories about academic integrity that appeared online in April 2014.
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7th ICT for Language Learning [Call for papers]
The 7th ICT for Language Learning conference will take place in Florence, Italy on 13 – 14 November 2014. The conference is addressed to lecturers, teachers, researchers and experts in the field of language learning. Abstracts are invited for oral, poster or virtual presentations. Papers (in English) should not exceed 5 pages (2,000 words) in length, excluding the abstract…
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Academic publishing: the REF, Open Access, plagiarism and pseudoscience
This is a post summarising articles, blog posts and news items about Higher Education, academic publishing and language learning, which were published between 31 March and 6 April 2014. This week’s selection of news and comments brings together an initiative by England’s top research funding body to promote open access, some concerns about the way the…
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Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2014 [Call for papers]
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2014) will take place in The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, on 1-5 September 2014. Special Events The following lectures and workshops have been scheduled: Henry Sweet Lecture: The semantics of embedding and the syntax of the left periphery (Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst);…
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Some things that are wrong in academia
About this post: This is a summary of posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which appeared in the last week of March 2015. This week’s collection of readings is not thematically linked, as was the case with last week’s stories on oppression and resistance. Rather, I…
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Complexity MOOC
Information about a MOOc on Complex Systems Theory