Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Hard Evidence: Is Open Access Working?
The below post was originally published on The Conversation, and is kindly reposted here with their permission. Author – Ernesto Priego, Lecturer […]
Europe slides in Times Higher Education rankings
Some of the top institutions in Europe have dropped down the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2013. The UK and US continue to dominate while leaders in France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Ireland and Austria have seen their stars fade. The results are likely to spur on advocates of a scheme to produce a measurement of university excellence that better reflects the strengths of universities outside the US and UK.
Taking the top spot in the THE rankings for the third year in a row is the California Institute of Technology. Oxford has also maintained its position in joint second place but in a tussle between the East and West coasts of the US, Harvard has pushed Stanford into fourth place, having regained its position next to Oxford at number two.
Teaching Children To Code: The Latest Revolution Most People Are Unaware Of
We’re living in an age of technology, with exciting new devices being released at a tremendously fast rate. It is then no […]
Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality
Angus Deaton is a social scientist and the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. His Princeton colleague, the philosopher Peter Singer, argues that aid is vital to combat the terrible mortality rates in some countries. Angus Deaton disagrees..
Join the Twitter Chat: Exploring System and Social Science in Public Health
Join the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Research (OBSSR) and SAGE for a live […]
The 15 Most Influential Thinkers in Business
Business Insider recently profiled “The 15 Most Influential Thinkers in Business” from the latest management rankings released by the organization Thinkers50. As […]
Thanksgiving Holiday Reading
As the United States celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday today, here’s a selection of Book Reviews for your post-Turkey reading! Book Review Essay: […]
