Tag: Higher Education
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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 of 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…
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Open access and other stories
About this post: This is a summary of posts, news stories and other content about Open Access publishing, as well as other aspects of Higher Education), which appeared online in the first week of December 2014. There were several interesting stories this week on Open Access publishing. Open Access (OA) is a publication model that…
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From mental health to killer fish
This is a list of news items, stories and other noteworthy content about TESOL and Higher Education, that appeared online on the last week of November 2014.
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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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Academic fraud, assault rifles and conference coffee breaks
This week’s (15-21 September 2014) collection of noteworthy articles looks into academic publishing and problems associated with research malpractice. There is also a report about how campus security teams prepare to deal with extremely rowdy students, and advice on how to behave in an academic conference.
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Recently Read: Scottish Independence and Higher Education
A collection of articles and views on the impact of Scottish Independence on Higher Education.
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Thoughts on academic blogging
This post has been prompted by a small personal landmark. Earlier today, this blog passed the 30,000 views mark, after about 30 months of operation. Of course, the views are not evenly distributed: for more than a year after it was created, this webspace operated mostly as an online CV/academic homepage, and the blog section…
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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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Predatory publishing, languages, quitting and persevering
This is an archived collection of news items about linguistics, lanaguage teaching and higher education that appeared in April 2014.