In September 2015 UIL will offer four CONFINTEA research scholarships for a period of one month each to researchers from UNESCO Member States (particularly from the global South). The scholarships are mainly based on private donations from the British educationalist Peter Jarvis and his publisher Taylor & Francis and the Nomura Centre for Lifelong Integrated Education in Japan. More...
By Marc Abrahams. Do not assume that tourists prefer good weather when they visit a beach. A study published in the International Journal of Biometeorology in 2013 challenges that easy-to-make assumption. The researchers gathered evidence – rather than relying on mere guesses and assumptions – as to what kind of weather brings beachgoers to the beach. Read more...
By . Scientists are being urged to lobby MPs and parliamentary candidates to back an increase in the UK’s level of public investment in research. More...
By . Researchers are being “taken advantage of” and put up with very low wages and insecure careers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Journal of Online Learning Research
2015/03/04
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) has published the premiere issue of an open journal called the Journal of Online Learning Research (JOLR), "a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of technologies and their impact on primary and secondary pedagogy and policy in primary and secondary (K-12) online and blended environments." More...
By David Kent. It hurts to see scientists cave to the pressure of a funding organization to alter their research to fit bureaucratic goals. More...
By Marc Abrahams. Further studies of the fetishisation of Pippa Middleton’s rear compare Freudian and Marxist views. By Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis. The Public Understanding of Science movement has long backed the idea that the public must be included in science governance if science is to achieve openness, transparency and accountability, and that this approach helps to preserve public trust and confidence in science, or restore it where it has been lost or fractured. More...
Le 20 et 21 janvier dernier, la CPU et le CNRS ont organisé conjointement un séminaire destiné à tous les nouveaux directeurs d’unité mixte de recherche. Dans un contexte de forte évolution de l’organisation de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, l’objectif était double : leur permettre d’appréhender au mieux ce contexte et favoriser leur prise de fonction.
« L’unité mixte de recherche est ce que nous devons promouvoir. J’entends par là la liaison intime entre l’enseignant-chercheur, le chercheur, les personnels et les doctorants afin de produire de la connaissance », a indiqué Jean-Loup Salzmann, président de la CPU en ouverture du séminaire.
Les UMR, à la base de la recherche française
Première brique de l’organisation de la recherche en France, l’unité mixte de recherche est une entité administrative créée par la signature d’un contrat d’association entre un établissement d’enseignement supérieur et un ou plusieurs organisme(s) de recherche. Administrée par un directeur et un conseil de laboratoire, elle définit sa stratégie de recherche de manière largement autonome. Voir l'article...
By Chantal Braganza. As pornography has proliferated in the digital era, so too has its study, even though this multidisciplinary field has been around for at least 30 years. But, say scholars, the study of sexually explicit subject matter has often been muddied by a binary pro- or anti-porn attitude. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
