Tag: Higher Education
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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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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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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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What’s a spamference?
As the pressure to present and publish becomes more and more intense, many scientific conferences have appeared, some of which are less legitimate than others. This means that it is becoming more important for academics, especially more junior and more inexperienced ones, to be alert to predatory conferences or, ‘spamferences’. In this blog post, you…
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Recently Read (17 – 23 March)
This week’s collection of readings contains stories that seem trivial, but invite reflection on serious questions pertaining to freedom, diversity, tolerance and oppression. The activities of the Quebec language police once again highlight the tensions between language planning and linguistic human rights. The second story (involving topless models) raises questions about sexism and tolerance in…
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Bad academia
This week’s [i.e., 10-16 March 2014] collection of noteworthy articles reports on the Obama administration efforts to curb student debt; offers a reminder that ‘visionary’ is not always an accolade; invites comparisons between failing higher education systems and our own academic culture; draws attention to underhand practices used to censor criticism; and presents ground-breaking research…
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Recently Read (3 – 9 March)
This week’s collection of readings discusses the league tables, expresses concern about mental health in the higher education, and offers examples of how such pressure can bring out the worst and the best in academics. The University World Reputation Rankings I guess the top story in the week that passed was the publication of the…
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Recently read… (24 Feb – 2 Mar 2014)
Note: This post is part of a series of items that curated noteworthy news stories about language teaching and learning and higher education. The content of the post is no longer current, but I have decided to retain the post for historical reasons, as part of this blog’s archive. This week’s collection of stories, articles…
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Fake papers are not the real problem in science
In case you missed it, the ‘big story’ in academic news in the past week was the retraction of more than 120 papers that had been published by Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The retraction followed the discovery, by Dr. Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University, that all the fake…