Some time ago, shortly after Google Reader was launched, I made a choice to stick with desktop applications for reading RSS across multiple computers. It’s a choice I’ve stuck with for a couple of years now, and it’s a choice I’m beginning to doubt.
Non-tenure track instructors teach nearly 49 percent of undergraduate courses in the United States, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Many of those instructors work part-time and aren’t paid as much as their tenured or tenure-track counterparts. Non-tenure track instructors make up nearly 70 percent of the professoriate in the U.S.
This information comes from a report [...]
Alex Reid, after some discussion of the smaller-than-previously-thought role the conscious mind actually plays in human life, tells us that “teaching practices work fairly well for the most part, even though they are built on a likely faulty model of the mind.”
In part, that’s because writing relies on a lot of the subconscious functions built [...]
According to a report published in Nature, scientific fraud in academia is “surprisingly common” but is not often reported to university officials.
The survey of mainly biomedical students showed that about 9 percent had seen some kind of academic misconduct in the past three years; 37 percent of those breaches went unreported.
The authors surveyed 2,212 researchers [...]
The Federal Office of Research Integrity says that 44 percent of its cases between 2005 and 2006 involved image fraud. That’s up from 6 percent a decade ago.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription probably required), out of the 300 or so articles accepted each year by the Journal of Clinical Investigation, 10 to [...]
