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Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?

June 29th, 2012 · 73 Comments

Jump to follow-up Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). It’s possible that universities may have to contract a bit in hard times, so what’s wrong? What’s wrong is that the victims are being selected in a way that I can describe only as insane. The criteria they [...]

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Tags: Academia · assessment · HR bollocks · Human resources · management bollocks · managerialism · metrics · publishing · Queen Mary · Simon Gaskell · Universities

Open access, peer review, grants and other academic conundrums

December 16th, 2011 · 24 Comments

Jump to follow-up Open access is in the news again. Index on Censorship held a debate on open data on December 6th. The video of of the meeting is now on YouTube. A couple of dramatic moments in the video: At 48 min O’Neill & Monbiot face off about "competent persons" (and at 58 min [...]

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Tags: Academia · George Monbiot · Mark Walport · Onora O'Neill · open access · peer review · publishing · Uncategorized