Tag: academic
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The Lingua controversy
You have probably read about the mass resignation of all the editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier [in November 2015]. For those of you who may have missed it, here are some highlights. What happened? Last July, the editors of Lingua asked Elsevier to renegotiate the way the journal worked.…
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life seems to be settling back into a pattern of regularity. This means that I now have time to read more broadly about things academic and professional. What follows is a selection of highlights from my reading last week: David Crystal is…
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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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Dr S. Bestiale, Jon Snow’s fate, and a poem
It’s one of those weeks when I find it really difficult to do any serious work, offline or on this blog. So, this week’s collection of reading materials will endeavour to provide answers to questions such as: (a) who is Dr Stronzo Bestiale?, (b) is John Snow dead? and (c) what is the boundary between Science and…
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Tuition fees, academic publishing, and song lyrics
This week’s collection of noteworthy looks into university tuition fees, reports on the new Facebook research guidelines, discusses academic authorship and predatory publishers, and examines the role of song lyrics in research output. Tuition Fees in Germany and the UK Last week, Lower Saxony abolished tuition fees for university students, thus aligning with all the…
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Saving the Fulbright programme and other stories
This is a summary of selected posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which appeared in the week starting on the 16th June 2014. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, as I am still overwhelmed by a number of pressing commitments,…
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Reviewing your supervisor’s work?
There was a blog post recently over at Peer Review Watch, reporting on a small scale survey among postgraduate students in City University London, regarding their views on peer review. In one of the questions, participants were asked how they would feel about providing peer review for papers submitted by their supervisors. The responses, I am afraid,…
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How to present a conference paper
The conference season is coming up, so this might be a good time to go over some of the basics for academic presentations. In this post, I will share some advice about presenting a conference paper, and next week, I’ll write about dealing with questions and feedback. The tips that follow are intended for people without…
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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…