Malgré la grogne autant chez les recteurs que chez les étudiants, le gouvernement Marois n'a pas l'intention de reculer sur les compressions de 124 millions de dollars imposées aux universités. (...) - par Tommy Chouinard, La Presse, 13/12/2012
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The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship (...) - by Curt Rice, The Guardian, Monday 22 April 2013
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More than a third of academics are on temporary contracts as universities casualise their workforces (...) - The Guardian via Collectif PAPERA | Monday 4 February 2013 | by Anna Fazackerley Delete the scoop?
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Research suggests women academics are more inclined to collaboration and co-authorship – if this is true, asks Karen Schucan Bird, what are the implications for REF 2014? (...) - The Guardian, by Karen Schucan Bird, Tuesday 22 January 2013Delete the scoop?
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As we reported last week, we have started rolling out the results of our fall surveys with those newer-to-higher ed (“newbies” and those that have been in higher ed for a longer period of time (“veterans”). Today we’ll let you know what these 464 people told us about why they decided to work in higher ed. (...) - Inside Higher Ed, by Dayna Catropa and Margaret Andrews, January 10, 2013 Delete the scoop?
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Analysis of doctorates prompts concerns over adequacy of scholars' training, reports Jack Grove
Questions have been raised about whether many scholars are "little or no better qualified than those they are teaching" following an analysis of the latest data on how many academics have a doctorate. In the study, Malcolm Tight, professor in higher education at Lancaster University, found that just 45.7 per cent of academic staff appeared to possess a doctorate. (...) - By Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, 1 November 2012 Delete the scoop?
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university conflict-of-interest committee should review contracts between academic scientists and industry sponsors that are worth US$5,000 or more, concludes a draft report entitled Recommended Principles & Practices to Guide Academy–Industry Relationships. Researchers should never ghostwrite research papers and should retain oversight of intellectual property and a stake in the proceeds from patents, according to the proposal. The report offers 56 guidelines for maintaining academic freedom and upholding ethical conduct in partnerships and collaborations between academics and industrial sponsors. Issued on 18 September, it was written by the American Association of University Professors in Washington DC in response to the increasing number and complexity of such partnerships, says co-author Cary Nelson, a past president of the association. “The corrupting power of money has become much more clear,” he says, noting that issues such as sponsors suppressing data from studies and persuading eminent researchers to add their names to papers they did not write seem to be on the rise. Naturejobs - Nature490,133(2012), 3 October 2012 Delete the scoop?
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Outspoken academics are rare: most tenured faculty have stayed silent about the adjunct crisis, notes Kendzior. On April 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that 76 percent of American university faculty are adjunct professors - an all-time high. Unlike tenured faculty, whose annual salaries can top $160,000, adjunct professors make an average of $2,700 per course and receive no health care or other benefits. (...) - by Sarah Kendzior, aljazeeran 11 Apr 2013 Delete the scoop?
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How will plans to make all publicly-funded research freely available by 2014 impact on academic freedom and diversity? (..) - The Guardian, by Claire Shaw, Tuesday 29 January 2013Delete the scoop?
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Recently a Forbes article claimed that being an academic was the least stressful job of 2013. However, a storm of protest on social media forced the author to add an addendum acknowledging that this probably wasn’t the case. (...) - The Thesis Whisperer, January 15, 2013 Delete the scoop?
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The desires to pursue personal goals, escape university pressures or get off the grant-writing treadmill convince some US professors to leave the security of a tenured post.
At the beach in Mantoloking, New Jersey, in summer 2011, the possibilities of Colin Purrington's sabbatical year stretched out before him. Purrington, then an evolutionary biologist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, intended to stay on campus and was almost giddy thinking of all the undergraduate research projects he had planned, with no teaching or service duties to interrupt them. And then it hit him like a 600-page textbook. When the year was over, he did not want to return to those duties — duties that had led to miserable all-nighters and family strain. (...) - Naturejobs, by Kendall Powell, in Nature 491,627-629, 21 November 2012 Delete the scoop?
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To reduce favouritism in university promotions, Spain recently introduced a centralised system with random assignment of evaluators. This column presents evidence from a unique data set showing that favouritism still matters. Prior connections between candidates and evaluators have a dramatic impact on promotion. The net result is that outcomes are more random and candidates with many connections and from large universities benefit the most. (...) - by Manuel F. Bagues and Natalia Zinovyeva, VOX, 16 September 2012 Delete the scoop?
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Academic publishing is structured on exclusivity, and to read them people must shell out an average of $19 per article. On July 19, 2011, Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and activist, was arrested for downloading 4.8 million academic articles. The articles constituted nearly the entire catalogue of JSTOR, a scholarly research database. Universities that want to use JSTOR are charged as much as $50,000 in annual subscription fees. (...) - Aljazeera by Sarah Kendzior, 02 Oct 2012 Delete the scoop?
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