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There’s nothing more painful than watching your child getting rejected. A few years ago, I took my son to an on-campus early childhood education center. While I was signing him in, he walked up to a classmate and asked her if he could be her friend, “I’m sorry, Tino. I already have a friend.” (...) - Blog Edmond Sanganyado, 2018/03/25
Simple considerations when writing an article can make your work more accessible to a broader readership, finds Matthew Edmonds. (...) - Naturejobs Blog, by Rebecca Wild, 2018/03/23
Preprints are early drafts of a paper before it has gone through peer review. Should non-peer reviewed material be included in published article reference lists? If so, how can we make that clear to readers? (...) - Scholarly Kitchen, by David Crotty, 2018/03/14
What’s the secret to a productive spell of writing? Chris Smith shares insights gleaned from interviews with a diverse group of academics, from which a number of common academic writing habits stood out. These range from the simple acts of scheduling and setting self-imposed deadlines, to both formal and informal accountability partnerships and the use of “freewriting” techniques which help authors write their way out of blocks. (...) - Blog LSE 'Impact of Social sciences', by Chris Smith, 2018/03/09
Le site du journal Le Soir Plus, premier site d'information en Belgique francophone. Actu en continu, archives gratuites, galeries photos, podcast, vidéos, blogs de la rédaction, résultats sportifs (...) - Le Soir, par Le Conseil du Corps Scientifique (CCS) et le Comité de Contact FNRS (CC-FNRS) de l’Université de Liège, 09/03/2018
Leading Russian universities are planning to significantly strengthen their cooperation with business, by increasing active sales of their scientific developments to producers and seeking investment for their further development, according to recent statements of representatives of some of Russia’s leading universities. (...) - University World News, by Eugene Vorotnikov03 March 2018 Issue No:495
Danish Tax Minister Karsten Lauritzen and Minister for Higher Education and Science Søren Pind have published a seven-point action plan to address the issue of foreign citizens who leave the country before paying off their student loan debt. (...) - University World News, Jan Petter Myklebust, 01 March 2018 Issue No:495
Plan would also trim salary support paid by National Institutes of Health grants.
Biomedical research funding was one of the budget lines saved from cuts by last-minute adjustments to President Donald Trump’s administration’s 2019 budget proposal released today. Still, advocates say they had hoped for more. (...) - Science, by Jocelyn Kaiser, 2018/02/12
It was a cold grey morning in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, at 7am on 16 October last year, when 12,000 faculty members from 24 colleges donned their jackets, picked up their protest signs and began their protest. Both full-time and contract faculty marched together in a massive strike that left 500,000 students without classes. Their demand was equal pay for equal work, a 50:50 full-time to part-time ratio of faculty (rather than the existing 30% full time to 70% part time), and academic freedom. (...) - University World News, by Emmanuelle Fick and Grace Karram Stephenson, 26 January 2018 Issue No:490
Eroding trust in regulatory agencies will not improve democratic accountability, warns Bernhard Url. (...) - Nature, by Bernhard Url, 24 Jan 2018
For the first time, India will allow nearly 15% of universities to offer online degrees, allowing students and executives to learn anywhere, anytime, writes Prashant K Nanda for Livemint. The courses, however, will be non-technical in nature, implying that they exclude degrees in engineering and medicine, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar explained. Although some believe the move may compromise quality, it will help India improve its low gross enrolment ratio in higher education and address the problem of access to colleges, faced in several parts of India. (...) - University World News, by Livemint, 19 January 2018 Issue No:489
Sweden’s special investigator on higher education, Pam Fredman, has presented a preliminary proposal for reforming the governance and funding of universities and university colleges to improve coordination of goals and strengthen university autonomy. (...) - University World News, by Jan Petter Myklebust, 19 January 2018 Issue No:489
Report from National Postdoctoral Association highlights progress and pain points.
Academic institutions in the United States have helped to improve life for postdoctoral researchers but changes are still needed, according to a 3 January report from the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) in Rockville, Maryland, which represents postdocs in the United States and Canada.(...) - Nature, 16 Jan 2018
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A more balanced distribution of NIH grant funding among investigators would strengthen the diversity of the research enterprise, increase the likelihood of scientific breakthroughs, and lead to a greater return on taxpayers' investments. (...) - eLife Sciences, by Wayne P Wahls, 2018/03/28
European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker’s transfer of heavyweight Robert-Jan Smits, the energetic outgoing director general of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, to the European Political Strategy Centre, an EC think-tank, as an ‘open access envoy’ has raised the prospect of added momentum being given to the commission’s plans for establishing a platform for open access by 2020. (...) - University World News, by Pål Magnus Lykkja and Jan Petter Myklebust, 17 March 2018 Issue No:497
Research assessment exercises provide the government and wider public with assurance of the quality of university research, with the guiding principles being accountability, transparency, and openness. But is there the same accountability and openness when it comes to the public cost of these large-scale exercises? Ksenia Sawczak examines the situation in Australia as the research sector looks ahead to the new Engagement and Impact Assessment later this year. There seems little doubt this exercise will demand significant resources, with no guarantee it will achieve its stated goal of improving how universities engage with industry. Until the hidden costs of assessment exercises are revealed and a thorough consideration of their general utility is undertaken, questions will remain as to whether they are a responsible use of public monies.(...) - Blog LSE 'Impact of Social Sciences', by Ksenia Sawczak, 2018/03/13
University staff across the UK are striking over changes to their pensions. Academics at 64 universities, who are members of the University and College Union (UCU) and who are signed up to a defined benefit pension scheme (known as USS), are faced with cuts that could leave them significantly worse off in retirement. (...) - academicmatters.ca, by Ania Zalewska, 2018/03/09
Media coverage attacking the character and trustworthiness of a scientist can diminish public faith in the research findings of that scientist. Ralph M. Barnes, Heather M. Johnston, Noah MacKenzie,… (...) - Blog LSE 'Impact of social sciences', by Ralph M. Barnes et al., 2018/03/06
Alan Burdick discusses President Trump’s proposed 2019 science budget, which includes cuts to a wide range of government-funded efforts, from disease prevention to climate-change research, and examines the Administration’s poor track record with fact and truth. (...) - The New Yorker, by Alan Burdick, 2018/03/04
Universities have slammed the central government for its moves to set criteria for institutions that will come under student fee reduction and exemption programs as "an intervention in university autonomy." (...) - The Mainichi, 2018/02/19
Recycling leftover chemicals and equipment slashes energy bills and boosts research budgets. (...) - Nature, by Elie Dolgin, 2018/02/07
Small countries have an outsized presence among the scientific elite.
Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific literature: it’s a small country, it’s research investment is large compared to other countries, and importantly, its hosting of the Large Hadron Collider is a drawcard for collaborative research. (...) - Nature Index, by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, 24 Jan 2018
Lise Bissonnette, présidente du conseil d’administration de l’UQAM, s’est récemment élevée contre « l’iniquité absolument flagrante » dans la rémunération des recteurs d’universités québécoises. Comme le soulignait Le Devoir (10 janvier), « les 10 recteurs les moins payés au Québec sont ceux du réseau de l’Université du Québec ». Nous partageons volontiers son indignation, de même que son jugement quant au fait que ce désolant écart n’est que « le symptôme d’un mal beaucoup plus profond », aux conséquences plus vastes et plus graves encore, touchant le sort réservé par le gouvernement et nombre d’acteurs politiques au réseau de l’Université du Québec. (...) - Le Droit, 20/01/2018
Latest National Science Foundation compendium highlights the complexity of global science (...) - Science, by Jeffrey Mervis, Jan. 19, 2018
The country’s research could soon dominate the world stage, but pitfalls lie in wait.
In the past 12 months or so, China has opened its first facility for research into the world’s most dangerous pathogens, unveiled another world-leading telescope and turned on its first world-class neutron source. Researchers in the country have also established a neuroimaging factory to automate the highly detailed imaging of human brains.(...) - Nature, 17 Janury 2018
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