Monthly Archives: March 2013

Professorial pay rises twice as fast as rest | News | Times Higher Education

Professorial pay rises twice as fast as rest | News | Times Higher Education. This is an interesting piece on what at first glance may seem possible unintended consequences of the REF (the UK’s Research Excellence Framework, which is used … Continue reading

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Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego

Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego.

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The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences

The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences.

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Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch

Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading

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U. of California faculty union says MOOCs undermine professors’ intellectual property | Inside Higher Ed

What’s really interesting to me about this article is that the issue of competing interests of faculty as individuals and as a collective is raised, but not really explored. We need an account of something like group autonomy. U. of … Continue reading

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Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences

Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Keith Brown!

CSID’s Progam Manager, Keith Brown, was a recipient of the UNT Staff Contribution Award! Keith was nominated by Shaun Treat, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UNT, for his role in organizing the UNT Comics Studies Conference. Congratulations to Keith … Continue reading

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Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China’s Twitter | MIT Technology Review

Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China’s Twitter | MIT Technology Review.

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SRA International :: Sequestration Resource

SRA International :: About SRA International.

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