This week I read…
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Sexist Peer Review; Non-replicable Science; and Flexible Job Searches
About this article: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published in the last week of April 2015. The topics covered in this post include: Can you get away with sexist remarks in peer review? Is it really a…
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IATEFL 2015: A retrospective
During IATEFL 2015, I made extensive notes about the sessions that I attended, as I had planned to write up summaries for this blog. It seems, however, that my own recollections of, and reactions to, many sessions have become weaker in the weeks since the conference. However, there’s already quite a lot of material available online, including video…
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Are there limits to what one can talk about?
Much of my online reading this week focused on the question of freedom of speech, and whether there should be qualifications to this right. This was prompted by the Counter-Terrorism and Security bill, which attempts to regulate speech at universities (You can read more about this in the first section of this post). But as I…
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UK lecturers in the Greek government; open peer review; and Harry Potter marketing
About this post: This is a collection of news and articles about Higher Education and language teaching, which appeared in 2015. This week’s collection of stories, articles and blog posts about higher education, looks into topics ranging from the influence of British universities on Greek politics to the influence of Harry Potter novels on higher education…
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Paying for peer review; Nobel laureates on Raif Badawi; & dealing with retractions
This post is a collection of articles about ELT, language learning and Higher Education, which appeared in the second week of January 2015. In this week’s collection of articles, I would like to invite you to reflect on the following questions: New open-access journal promises to pay peer reviewers According to an article in the…
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Bilingualism, blogging, and authenticity
This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published in January 2015. Last week, I remarked that there were lots of interesting developments going on in higher education at the moment. It seems that I should learn to keep my mouth shut,…
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Making college free, a new OA journal, and student visas
About this post: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in the first week of January 2015. I am not sure whether it was a mere coincidence or if it is somehow connected to the New Year, but…
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King’s London, bogus science, author mills, and predatory publishers
About this post: This is a weekly roundup of blog posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in December 2015.
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What’s hot in science; academic blogging; and a paper by Maggie Simpson
In case you’re looking for inspiration for your next research project, in this week’s collection of noteworthy articles, I provide a list to the hottest fields in science. There are also some thoughts on how to discuss one’s blog to potentially sceptical peers, a story on linguistic discrimination and a narrative about the difficulties involved in correcting…