“The European University Association has called on the continent’s governments to commit to major investment in higher education and research, and to renew efforts to reach the Barcelona target of 3% of GDP investment in research and the 2% investment in higher education proposed by the European Commission …” (more)
[University World News, 30 May]
“As technologies such as virtualisation and cloud computing assume important places within the information technology landscape, higher education leaders will need to consider which institutional services they wish to leave to consumer choice, which ones they wish to source and administer ‘somewhere else’, and which services they should operate centrally or locally on campus …” (more)
[University World News, 30 May]
“Pupils taking their A-levels have been told by some universities that any grades they obtain by resitting exams will be ignored. Institutions that have adopted a retake ‘ban’ include the medical school at University College London (UCL) and Bath University’s architecture course, one of the most respected in the country …” (more)
[Jack Grimston, Sunday Times, 30 May]
“Full time. UCD 3-1 Dundalk.”
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[UCD AFC, 29 May]
“Enabling Open Scholarship has just released David Prosser’s Open Access Policies in Europe. This succinct overview by one of open access’ most noteworthy champions is a must-read for anyone involved in OA policy development or advocacy.” (link)
[The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 29 May]
“The Irish University Boat Race, based on a similar format to the famous Oxford and Cambridge boat race, sees competitors from Queen’s University, Belfast take on their rivals from Trinity College, Dublin …” (more)
[Belfast City Council, 29 May]
“David Galenson has written a series of papers on the creative arts, including songwriting, architecture, filmmaking, photography, and many kinds of visual art. A new paper, ‘Understanding Creativity’, summarizes and synthesizes much of this work. A central theme is the distinction between ‘experimental’ and ‘conceptual’ innovators …” (more)
[Peter Klein, Organizations and Markets, 28 May]
“People who prefer print books over e-books may still want extra digital material to go with them. That’s the idea behind Sorin Matei’s project, Ubimark, which embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed …” (more)
[Mary Helen Miller, Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 May]
“Kildare Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State, Áine Brady has urged local students to make an early application for grants. ‘The details have just been announced for the student maintenance grant schemes for the coming academic year and I would encourage students to get their applications in early’ …” (more)
[Maynooth Town, 29 May]
“At this time of year I think we should do our utmost to reassure students of the rigour of university assessment procedures. This short film from those nice people at LSU in the good old US of A explains all …” (more, video)
[hEaD space, 29 May]
“In yesterday’s Irish Times we read that the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) is in trouble. There may be readers here who are not fully aware of what PRTLI is, so here’s a short explanation …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 29 May]
“Twenty-four of the State’s top academics have been admitted as members of the Royal Irish Academy in recognition of their scholastic achievements. The admissions bring to 2,833 the number of members admitted to the academy, which is its 225th year …” (more)
[Pamela Duncan, Irish Times, 29 May]
“Some students may have graduations delayed because of an escalating row over redundancies and pay freezes at universities across Britain, it is feared. The University and College Union claim as many as 6,000 jobs are at risk after government cuts to higher education …” (more)
[Graeme Paton, Daily Telegraph, 28 May]
“Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin has called on the Government and relevant authorities to introduce Chinese for the Leaving Certificate …” (more)
[Cork Student News, 28 May]
“Students today seem to care more about things like the environment and animal welfare and poverty around the world, but how much empathy do they really have toward their fellow man? Surprisingly, not that much, according to a survey by researchers at University of Michigan …” (more)
[Alice Park, Time, 28 May]
“I recently ran across a paper by Bo Carlsson, Zoltan Acs, David Audretsch and Pontus Braunerhjelm called ‘The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth’. It’s actually a 2007 paper, part of a series these authors in various combination have been writing about the idea of a ‘knowledge filter’ …” (more)
[Dick Langlois, Organizations and Markets, 28 May]
“How long your prof thinks it should take to do something vs How long it’ll actually take you to do it …” (more, graphic)
[Times Higher Education, 27 May]
“Recently in the Liblicense list, the idea came up that publishers could simply refuse to publish works by authors covered by open access policies. Of course, this is their right! Publishers who share such view might wish to get together and form a new association, to plan their futures together. Here is my suggestion for a title for the association: The Journals for Strictly Limited Dissemination of the Works of Unfunded and Unemployed Researchers …” (more)
[The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 28 May]
“A major step towards establishing a single food research programme in Ireland to support innovation and development in the food industry was taken today with the launch of the UCC/Teagasc Strategic Alliance in Food Research …” (more)
[Mike Fanning, Clare Herald, 28 May]
“… Crowd Science, as it might be called, is taking hold in several other disciplines, such as biology, and is rising rapidly in oceanography and a range of environmental sciences. ‘Crowdsourcing is a natural solution to many of the problems that scientists are dealing with that involve massive amounts of data’, says Haym Hirsh …” (more)
[Jeffrey R Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 May]
