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How a 6 month ‘degree’ could put you ahead of the competition
While college degrees take years to complete and cost many thousands of dollars, Google is now backing a scheme to get people a "nanodegree" in just six months.
Vanity and conceit: the perils of self-citation
The other day I got a book in the mail. Not that unusual.
Werewolf conference billed as first for UK academy
Academics will get a chance to hear papers on “full-moon masculinities”, “werewolves and white trash” and “re-wilding” the wolf
Ulster University to close school of modern languages
Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution
East Asia has ‘toxic academic culture’
East Asian universities may never catch up with their Western counterparts because of a “toxic academic culture” in the region, according to a brutal assessment by a Hong Kong academic.
Copyright laws ‘mean EU risks falling behind on data mining research’
Academics in countries adopting a permissive attitude under copyright law to data mining are three times more likely to publish research based on the technique than colleagues in countries with a more restrictive approach.
News blog: what it is like to study in a Chinese university
If any particularly observant readers noticed that my byline disappeared from Times Higher Education around this time a year ago
PhD supervisors urged to ‘embrace history’s ghosts’
White supervisors in New Zealand can provide far more effective support for their Maori students by “embracing rather than refusing history’s ghosts”.
Researchers ‘not doing enough’ to explore options outside academia
Many university researchers have unrealistic expectations of a long-term career in academia and are doing little to explore other job options, a survey has found.
