General education requirements are often attacked or painted as pointless extra classes people have to take. But they have real value for both individual people and society at large! My favorite co-author, Liz Ziff, and I argue in our latest OpEd, out now in Times Higher Education, that faculty have an obligation to protect gen eds https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/us-universities-must-resist-pressure-cut-gen-ed-requirements

#generaleducation #sociology #geneds #highered #highereducation #timeshighereducation

Uni Potsdam klettert auf Platz 22 im THE-Ranking der jungen Universitäten. Und ist in Deutschland Spitze im Kreis der Unis unter 50 Jahren. Gerankt wurden insgesamt fast 600 Hochschulen aus 104 Ländern:
https://uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninformationen/detail/2023-07-03-uni-potsdam-auf-platz-22-im-the-ranking-der-jungen-universitaeten-und-in-deutschland-spitze
#THEranking #TimesHigherEducation #hochschulranking

"When Kate Laskowski was alerted to strange data patterns in a paper she had published three years earlier, the University of California, Davis scientist faced a difficult choice – a choice that has now been vindicated after a long, testing road."

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/might-tank-my-career-pruitt-accuser-whistleblowing (£)

#TimesHigherEducation #Whistleblowing #ResearchIntegrity #DoingTheRightThing

The reaction on 🐦 to this proposal in @timeshighered to replace journals with a UK REF repository has mostly been:
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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/should-uk-replace-journals-ref-repository

How would *you* reform publishing and UK #ResearchAssessment?

#Publishing #Journals #ResearchExcellenceFramework #ResearchReform #HigherEducation #TimesHigherEducation #JournalPublishing #AcademicMastodon #ScholComm

In Times Higher Education's article on 'Identity theft victims back legal action against journals', our Research Integrity Manager, Matt Hodgkinson was quoted.

Links to view the full article:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/identity-theft-victims-back-legal-action-against-journals

(Register to Times Higher Education to be able to read 3 articles a month)

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/10/leading-scientists-worldwide-are-victims-fake-articles

(5 free articles per month from Inside Higher Ed)

#IdentityTheft #PredatoryJournals #PublicationEthics #TimesHigherEducation

@cardiffuni academic @FlintDibble says the popularity of #Netflix show #AncientApocalypse means non-engagement is no longer possible, reports @jgro_the for #TimesHigherEducation. #Pseudoarchaeology #FakeHistoryhttps://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/archaeology-v-graham-hancock-joe-rogan-hosted-showdown

I was in class yesterday studying for my MBA (on Zoom) when the lecturer told us that our school: University of Exeter Business School had been named Business School of the Year by #TimesHigherEducation

Not bad!

https://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/articles/universityofexeterbusines.html

“A sophisticated algorithm and a simple phone call have proved a formula for student retention, @JonPowles of @UniWestScotland says on #THECampus. The institution’s Student Success Team is shortlisted for Tech/Digital Innovation of the Year #THEAwards 2022”

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/mix-technology-and-personal-contact-support-students

From #Timeshighereducation #studentsuccess #highered #universities #learneranalytics