The UK Campaign for the Public University is a broadly based campaign initiated by a group of university teachers and graduate students […]
The Campaign for the Public University defends and promotes the idea of university as a public good. The following is an extract from a […]
New research from economists at the University of Nottingham suggests that incentive payments in the form of cash bonuses don’t work. Experts […]
A new national commission has been announced by the American Academy of Arts and Science to boost teaching and research in the […]
In a recent blog on the Wall Street Journal site, Christopher Shea says: Scientists and social scientists may not always produce lively prose, but […]
A statement has been issued by a number of scholarly associations in the US supporting the right of academics to carry out […]
New research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that when it comes to dating, cyberspace is as segregated as the real […]
The National Student Survey does not provide the valid, reliable data needed to compare higher education institutions. Such differences as it reveals […]
Christopher Jencks, known for his novel and inventive opinions on hot topic issues like income inequality, homelessness, and racial gaps in standardized […]
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
Are you a researcher with an idea that could help solve one of today’s most pressing problems? A conference in Dubai this […]
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […]
