http://www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/4/b/ucu_seeingthebiggerpicture_dec14.pdf?CFID=14884131&CFTOKEN=69fe58e10e843983-443AFE80-C188-5344-A871C6257DFA6AF2UCU is today calling for a fundamental review of UK research. In a report released a week before this year’s […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/world/middleeast/number-of-academic-refugees-grows.html?_r=1 Intellectual dissidents have long faced political persecution and violence. But in recent years, the dangers facing them and universities
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141112172102896 National governments that sponsor international scholarship programmes assume that attending a higher education institution outside the home nation creates
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141105105941193 How to win citations and rise up the university rankings Richard Holmes 7 November 2014, University World News, Issue No:342
http://blog.codalism.com/index.php/citing-papers-that-youve-never-read-or-that-were-never-written/ See how a non-existent article has more than 200 citations
http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20141104 The most cited work in history is a 1951 paper describing an assay to determine the amount of protein in
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings US News and World Report just released the Best Global Universities ranking on 28 Oct 2014. Top 500:1) Harvard University2)
Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag.htm
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/oct/24/bullying-academia-universities-stress-support My newly-appointed line manager came to see me just as I was about to go home on a Friday
http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/no-one-is-above-the-law-national-council-of-professors-43110 No one is above the law, even if a statement that is deemed unlawful was uttered within the academic
http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-tame-the-flood-of-literature-1.15806 Too many research papers to go through? Recommendation services claim to help researchers keep up with the most important
http://www.malaysiakini.com/advertorial/271971 Crucially, as part of the Vocational Education Transformation Programme which has been undertaken for the past two years, the
