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Opinion: India Making Wrong Decisions for Undergrads
Higher Education Reform
August 14, 2014

Opinion: India Making Wrong Decisions for Undergrads

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Are Good Intentions Enough in Allocating School Places?
International Debate
August 7, 2014

Are Good Intentions Enough in Allocating School Places?

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We Must Resist the Pressure to Be Interesting
News
August 6, 2014

We Must Resist the Pressure to Be Interesting

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Nudge Isn’t New, But It Is Comfortable
Public Policy
August 5, 2014

Nudge Isn’t New, But It Is Comfortable

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Technology: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Technology: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Gavin Moodie has looked at how printing first challenged then changed–for the better–higher education. Here he suggests more modern forms of technological advancement likely will result in the same.

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Beating the Flawed Metric That Rules Science

Beating the Flawed Metric That Rules Science

The perceived importance of a scientific paper should reflect the deepest wisdom of the scientific community, argues Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, rather than the judgments of three anonymous peer reviewers. So where does that leave ‘impact factor’?

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Beware the Lessons of Competitive US Higher Ed

Beware the Lessons of Competitive US Higher Ed

Other nations looking at successful American universities and seeing the invisible hand of the marketplace at work should take a closer look at the arm attached to that hand, argues Steve C. Ward.

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Spending Australia’s Research Dollars More Wisely

Spending Australia’s Research Dollars More Wisely

Australia allocates around A$9 billion a year of taxpayers’ money for research, but how do we know if that money is being spent wisely?

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Sorry Scarlett, We Use All Our Brain, Not Just 10 Percent

Sorry Scarlett, We Use All Our Brain, Not Just 10 Percent

Another cherished myth bites the dust. The makers of the new movie “Lucy” aside, we already use all of of brain, and not just a tenth of it.

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On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

What does the Facebook emotional contagion study really tells us about research ethics? Perhaps, argues Robert Dingwall, that its time to deregulate public social science.

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No Longer the Age of Consent: Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study

No Longer the Age of Consent: Facebook’s Emotional Manipulation Study

Facebook’s unannounced study using its users’ newsfeeds offers a case study in research ethics: where did it lie of the spectrum from ‘ho harm, no foul’ or to an unacceptable violation of participants’ rights? Ethicist David Hunter examines.

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What is Peer Review? An Explainer

What is Peer Review? An Explainer

We’ve all heard the phrase “peer review” as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean? How […]

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