By Jonathan Thon. There are problems with academic science. We all know this to be true. After roughly eight years of maintaining The Black Hole blog, and three decades having experienced academic science from the ground up — as curious kids, volunteers, undergraduates and then graduate science students, postdoctoral fellows, instructors, professors, thought leaders and mentors — Dave and I have accumulated a comprehensive list of changes the system desperately needs. More...
Le choix du thème du séminaire 2013 est parti d’un constat : l’âge dispose d’un statut de variable numérique, qui lui confère un rôle particulier dans les politiques sociales, les dispositions qu’elles contiennent (en termes de seuils notamment), et l’évaluation (quantifiée) de leurs résultats.
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This monitoring framework will be operated by HEFCE and is intended to satisfy Government that ‘relevant higher education bodies’ are fulfilling their duty to have due regard to the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism (the Prevent duty). More...
Par Paul Santelmann. La politique de l’emploi est au croisement du droit du travail et de l’économie. Elle soulève également les questions du rôle de la négociation collective et de l’action des collectivités territoriales. La formation professionnelle continue est une bonne illustration de cet extraordinaire entremêlement institutionnel qui sous-tend la politique de l’emploi et qui accentue les distorsions avec la marge de manœuvre économique des entreprises. Voir l'article...
By Stefanie Botelho. Local state legislators met at Cameron University Monday afternoon to learn more about what's in store for higher education in Oklahoma. More...
By . In this exercise, I look at the records for Canadian, British, Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand Prime Ministers, German Chancellors, and French and American Presidents. I would have included Italy but politicians’ Wikipedia bios are weirdly silent on education (even in the Italian versions). I take all leaders back to 1900, except in New Zealand where Dominion Status was not granted until 1907, and Japan where I stop at 1945 because holy moley there are a lot of them. More...
By . For giggles the other night, I started looking up the educational backgrounds of various countries’ heads of government. I’ll do the other countries tomorrow; today, I thought I’d start with Canada. Let’s do it by the numbers. More...
A Scottish university which awarded Donald Trump with an honorary degree in 2010 has confirmed it is revoking it after the US presidential frontrunner made controversial remarks about Muslims in statements, writes Aftab Ali for The Independent. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. In the Senate, Marco Rubio delved into the weeds of higher education policy. Now he’s taking his reform push out on the campaign trail, where he is the lone GOP candidate talking about higher ed. Read more...
By James Wilsdon and Kieron Flanagan. George Osborne’s commitment to protect the science budget in real terms has been welcomed by many in the research community. But a lot of the detail is still to emerge. We’ve gathered a few reactions from scientists and policy experts. More...
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