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Open Access Publishing – but who will pay?*
Today’s Guardian front page offers an encouraging headline: Free access to British scientific research within two years. The idea is that by 2014 all publications of all research which has been funded by the British taxpayer has to be accessible … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Education, Universities
Tagged academic journals, open access, publishing, REF, research, research assessment
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British Academia: abandoning the next generation
The fate of young academics in UK universities looks increasingly bleak: the chance to reach paid employment as an academic in the Arts and Humanities increasingly depends not only on talent and a willingness to work hard, but also on … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Universities
Tagged Academic careers, postdoctoral research, young academics
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Higher Education in the Marketplace
Sometime towards the end of the fifth century BC the young Athenian Xenophon encountered a man in a narrow side street. The man blocked his way and asked where every kind of food was sold. Once he had received a reply, he asked another … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Universities
Tagged Ancient Athens, Independent Thinking, Lectures, Socrates, Tutorials, University Market, University Teaching
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