#times-higher — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #times-higher, aggregated by home.social.
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“Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations”
by Samantha Asumadu in The Byline Times
“The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #TimesHigher #CambridgeUniversity #Orr #Arday #Reform #THE #Misconduct #FarRight #Hungary #Orban #RogerScruton #Foundation #SelfCensorship #Censorship
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“Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations”
by Samantha Asumadu in The Byline Times
“The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #TimesHigher #CambridgeUniversity #Orr #Arday #Reform #THE #Misconduct #FarRight #Hungary #Orban #RogerScruton #Foundation #SelfCensorship #Censorship
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“Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations”
by Samantha Asumadu in The Byline Times
“The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #TimesHigher #CambridgeUniversity #Orr #Arday #Reform #THE #Misconduct #FarRight #Hungary #Orban #RogerScruton #Foundation #SelfCensorship #Censorship
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“Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations”
by Samantha Asumadu in The Byline Times
“The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #TimesHigher #CambridgeUniversity #Orr #Arday #Reform #THE #Misconduct #FarRight #Hungary #Orban #RogerScruton #Foundation #SelfCensorship #Censorship
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A Ban on Publication Fees?
Yesterday I was going through the “onboarding” process via Zoom with two new Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) when one of them mentioned a recent policy decision at the USA which means we’ll probably get even more papers submitted from there. I wasn’t aware of the decision, but there’s an article in the Times Higher about it here.
In a nutshell:
Under proposed rule changes published by the Office of Management and Budget, all journal publication costs – “including page charges, article processing charges (APCs), or similar fees such as open access fees for professional journal publications and other peer-reviewed publications” – will become “unallowable under federal awards”.
It is important to stress that at this stage the change is proposed rather than actual and it remains to be seen whether it will stand. I think it should because publication fees, article processing charges or whatever you call them are a complete waste of money.
The Times Higher article frames this as “Trump’s ban on paying open access fees”. I was worried to be finding myself in agreement with Donald Trump on anything, but I very much doubt that Trump himself knows anything about scientific publishing or has had much of a hand in this decision. It seems to me to be eminently sensible to ensure that funds meant to be directed at research are not frittered away on page charges. If I were involved in running a research institution I would make it a disciplinary offence to spend money on publication fees.
Of course the academic publishing industry is upset about the proposal claiming that scientific publishing is “high cost”, which it is but only because the publishers rake in huge profits. The way forward, as I have argued many times (e.g. here), is Diamond Open Access, a exemplified by OJAp. The marginal cost per paper article published for OJAp is just $10 and we have at least as much impact as the other leading journals in astrophysics.
I have been surprised how many researchers from the USA are already using OJAp, including many from top institutions such as Harvard, Caltech, Princeton and Chicago. The surprise is basically that authors from the USA have for many years been used to paying page charges for publishing in the Astrophysical Journal and others from the AAS stable. This was the case even before digital journals came on the scene and well before the Open Access movement. I suppose American authors put up with page charges because they felt they had to, but that is no longer the case.
Will we get even more submissions from the USA as a result of this policy change? We’ll just have to wait and see…
P.S. This morning I published the 600th paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics.
#ArticleProcessingCharges #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #pageCharges #TheAcademicPublishingRacket #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #TimesHigher -
A Ban on Publication Fees?
Yesterday I was going through the “onboarding” process via Zoom with two new Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) when one of them mentioned a recent policy decision at the USA which means we’ll probably get even more papers submitted from there. I wasn’t aware of the decision, but there’s an article in the Times Higher about it here.
In a nutshell:
Under proposed rule changes published by the Office of Management and Budget, all journal publication costs – “including page charges, article processing charges (APCs), or similar fees such as open access fees for professional journal publications and other peer-reviewed publications” – will become “unallowable under federal awards”.
It is important to stress that at this stage the change is proposed rather than actual and it remains to be seen whether it will stand. I think it should because publication fees, article processing charges or whatever you call them are a complete waste of money.
The Times Higher article frames this as “Trump’s ban on paying open access fees”. I was worried to be finding myself in agreement with Donald Trump on anything, but I very much doubt that Trump himself knows anything about scientific publishing or has had much of a hand in this decision. It seems to me to be eminently sensible to ensure that funds meant to be directed at research are not frittered away on page charges. If I were involved in running a research institution I would make it a disciplinary offence to spend money on publication fees.
Of course the academic publishing industry is upset about the proposal claiming that scientific publishing is “high cost”, which it is but only because the publishers rake in huge profits. The way forward, as I have argued many times (e.g. here), is Diamond Open Access, a exemplified by OJAp. The marginal cost per paper article published for OJAp is just $10 and we have at least as much impact as the other leading journals in astrophysics.
I have been surprised how many researchers from the USA are already using OJAp, including many from top institutions such as Harvard, Caltech, Princeton and Chicago. The surprise is basically that authors from the USA have for many years been used to paying page charges for publishing in the Astrophysical Journal and others from the AAS stable. This was the case even before digital journals came on the scene and well before the Open Access movement. I suppose American authors put up with page charges because they felt they had to, but that is no longer the case.
Will we get even more submissions from the USA as a result of this policy change? We’ll just have to wait and see…
P.S. This morning I published the 600th paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics.
#ArticleProcessingCharges #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #pageCharges #TheAcademicPublishingRacket #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #TimesHigher -
A Ban on Publication Fees?
Yesterday I was going through the “onboarding” process via Zoom with two new Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) when one of them mentioned a recent policy decision at the USA which means we’ll probably get even more papers submitted from there. I wasn’t aware of the decision, but there’s an article in the Times Higher about it here.
In a nutshell:
Under proposed rule changes published by the Office of Management and Budget, all journal publication costs – “including page charges, article processing charges (APCs), or similar fees such as open access fees for professional journal publications and other peer-reviewed publications” – will become “unallowable under federal awards”.
It is important to stress that at this stage the change is proposed rather than actual and it remains to be seen whether it will stand. I think it should because publication fees, article processing charges or whatever you call them are a complete waste of money.
The Times Higher article frames this as “Trump’s ban on paying open access fees”. I was worried to be finding myself in agreement with Donald Trump on anything, but I very much doubt that Trump himself knows anything about scientific publishing or has had much of a hand in this decision. It seems to me to be eminently sensible to ensure that funds meant to be directed at research are not frittered away on page charges. If I were involved in running a research institution I would make it a disciplinary offence to spend money on publication fees.
Of course the academic publishing industry is upset about the proposal claiming that scientific publishing is “high cost”, which it is but only because the publishers rake in huge profits. The way forward, as I have argued many times (e.g. here), is Diamond Open Access, a exemplified by OJAp. The marginal cost per paper article published for OJAp is just $10 and we have at least as much impact as the other leading journals in astrophysics.
I have been surprised how many researchers from the USA are already using OJAp, including many from top institutions such as Harvard, Caltech, Princeton and Chicago. The surprise is basically that authors from the USA have for many years been used to paying page charges for publishing in the Astrophysical Journal and others from the AAS stable. This was the case even before digital journals came on the scene and well before the Open Access movement. I suppose American authors put up with page charges because they felt they had to, but that is no longer the case.
Will we get even more submissions from the USA as a result of this policy change? We’ll just have to wait and see…
P.S. This morning I published the 600th paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics.
#ArticleProcessingCharges #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #pageCharges #TheAcademicPublishingRacket #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #TimesHigher -
A Chatbot Masters?
I laughed out loud when I saw an item in the Times Higher about new Masters courses at the London School of Innovation (which I had never heard of before) that will be taught and assessed by AI. I see that for the new courses – apparently in subjects such as machine learning, digital innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation
Content will be delivered through an online learning system that the university built from scratch. Students can choose to have content delivered in a written format or presented to them by an AI avatar.
Moreover,
…assignments will be assessed and given feedback by AI…
At the end of each module, students will engage in a “Socratic dialogue” with their AI tutor about the content to answer questions and reflect on their learning.
Whether the AI bot will end up corrupting young people and being compelled to drink hemlock is not specified…
I laughed when I read all this because it doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that if you have a qualification that can be delivered and assessed by chatbots then the job that you think it will qualify you for can also be done by chatbots…
Still, the London School of Innovation has been granted degree-awarding powers by the “Regulator” so it must be kosher.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LondonSchoolOfInnovation #SocraticDialogue #TimesHigher -
A Chatbot Masters?
I laughed out loud when I saw an item in the Times Higher about new Masters courses at the London School of Innovation (which I had never heard of before) that will be taught and assessed by AI. I see that for the new courses – apparently in subjects such as machine learning, digital innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation
Content will be delivered through an online learning system that the university built from scratch. Students can choose to have content delivered in a written format or presented to them by an AI avatar.
Moreover,
…assignments will be assessed and given feedback by AI…
At the end of each module, students will engage in a “Socratic dialogue” with their AI tutor about the content to answer questions and reflect on their learning.
Whether the AI bot will end up corrupting young people and being compelled to drink hemlock is not specified…
I laughed when I read all this because it doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that if you have a qualification that can be delivered and assessed by chatbots then the job that you think it will qualify you for can also be done by chatbots…
Still, the London School of Innovation has been granted degree-awarding powers by the “Regulator” so it must be kosher.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LondonSchoolOfInnovation #SocraticDialogue #TimesHigher -
A Chatbot Masters?
I laughed out loud when I saw an item in the Times Higher about new Masters courses at the London School of Innovation (which I had never heard of before) that will be taught and assessed by AI. I see that for the new courses – apparently in subjects such as machine learning, digital innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation
Content will be delivered through an online learning system that the university built from scratch. Students can choose to have content delivered in a written format or presented to them by an AI avatar.
Moreover,
…assignments will be assessed and given feedback by AI…
and
At the end of each module, students will engage in a “Socratic dialogue” with their AI tutor about the content to answer questions and reflect on their learning.
Whether the AI bot will end up corrupting young people and being compelled to drink hemlock is not specified…
I laughed when I read all this because it doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that if you have a qualification that can be delivered and assessed by chatbots then the job that you think it will qualify you for can also be done by chatbots…
Still, the London School of Innovation has been granted degree-awarding powers by the “Regulator” so it must be kosher.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LondonSchoolOfInnovation #SocraticDialogue #TimesHigher -
A Chatbot Masters?
I laughed out loud when I saw an item in the Times Higher about new Masters courses at the London School of Innovation (which I had never heard of before) that will be taught and assessed by AI. I see that for the new courses – apparently in subjects such as machine learning, digital innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation
Content will be delivered through an online learning system that the university built from scratch. Students can choose to have content delivered in a written format or presented to them by an AI avatar.
Moreover,
…assignments will be assessed and given feedback by AI…
At the end of each module, students will engage in a “Socratic dialogue” with their AI tutor about the content to answer questions and reflect on their learning.
Whether the AI bot will end up corrupting young people and being compelled to drink hemlock is not specified…
I laughed when I read all this because it doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that if you have a qualification that can be delivered and assessed by chatbots then the job that you think it will qualify you for can also be done by chatbots…
Still, the London School of Innovation has been granted degree-awarding powers by the “Regulator” so it must be kosher.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LondonSchoolOfInnovation #SocraticDialogue #TimesHigher -
@YvanDaSilva Hey Yvan, you might like to check out the Distance Learning offer at #ARU (#TimesHigher Uni of the year no less (fwiw)).
If you drop them a line my colleagues over there will be able to take you through the offer and setup to see if there's something suitable for you.
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@YvanDaSilva Hey Yvan, you might like to check out the Distance Learning offer at #ARU (#TimesHigher Uni of the year no less (fwiw)).
If you drop them a line my colleagues over there will be able to take you through the offer and setup to see if there's something suitable for you.
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@YvanDaSilva Hey Yvan, you might like to check out the Distance Learning offer at #ARU (#TimesHigher Uni of the year no less (fwiw)).
If you drop them a line my colleagues over there will be able to take you through the offer and setup to see if there's something suitable for you.
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@YvanDaSilva Hey Yvan, you might like to check out the Distance Learning offer at #ARU (#TimesHigher Uni of the year no less (fwiw)).
If you drop them a line my colleagues over there will be able to take you through the offer and setup to see if there's something suitable for you.
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We only went and won it! #TimesHigher #university of the year, that's really something to be #ARUProud about.
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We only went and won it! #TimesHigher #university of the year, that's really something to be #ARUProud about.
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We only went and won it! #TimesHigher #university of the year, that's really something to be #ARUProud about.
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#ARU are up for #TimesHigher #Awards tomorrow in 3 categories:
- Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
- University of the Year
There's a nice little supporting video here, highlighting (amongst other things) that we're one of the #UK leading providers of #DegreeApprenticeships and the largest provider of initial Police #Education. I'm proud to be part of the team that built this.
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#ARU are up for #TimesHigher #Awards tomorrow in 3 categories:
- Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
- University of the Year
There's a nice little supporting video here, highlighting (amongst other things) that we're one of the #UK leading providers of #DegreeApprenticeships and the largest provider of initial Police #Education. I'm proud to be part of the team that built this.
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#ARU are up for #TimesHigher #Awards tomorrow in 3 categories:
- Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
- University of the Year
There's a nice little supporting video here, highlighting (amongst other things) that we're one of the #UK leading providers of #DegreeApprenticeships and the largest provider of initial Police #Education. I'm proud to be part of the team that built this.