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High Level Hires from Abroad 26 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
The non-resident Indian scientist [Shreemanta Parida], appointed two years ago as chief executive officer of a government vaccine research programme, resigned last month and returned home to Berlin, s...
Foreign Universities: Sobering News from Singapore 26 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
Jason Lane and Kevin Kinser ask in CHE: How Loyal Are Overseas Branch Campuses to Their Host Countries? In dealing with this topic, they provide several examples, almost all of them from Singapore: A...
Links 25 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Ram Guha on intellectual dadagiri: By tradition and temperament, Indians are extremely deferential to those older, richer, and more powerful than themselves. This is so even in the realms of science...
Tail Wags the Dog 25 Aug 2013 | 11:08 am
Exhibit 1: Under the proposed rules, foreign institutions that figure among the top 400 universities in the world — according to rankings published by the Times Higher Education, ... Quacquarelli Sym...
Theory and Experiment 25 Aug 2013 | 10:22 am
Experimentalist commands, "Emma, please insert NMR data here!" Theorist begs, "Do you have any data that will fit my theory?" And Yogi Berra says, "In theory there is no difference between theory an...
Universities and Money 18 Aug 2013 | 01:06 pm
Specifically, the possible effects of the source of money on universities' priorities. In the Indian context, Dr. E.A.S. Sarma expressed his deep concern in a 2011 letter to the Prime Minister: "if o...
Links 18 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am
ChemBark: A Disturbing Note in a Recent SI File ["SI" stands for supporting information for a research paper available at the journal's website]. The disturbing note is this: Emma, please insert NMR ...
Conflicting Expectations on Middle Management 18 Aug 2013 | 11:08 am
In David Evans's post on From Faculty to Chair, you find this key insight: The biggest thing I learned in my four years in that position was how to begin to balance the interests of my department and...
A new, field-specific, citation-centric rating / ranking of universities 16 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
It's described in a paper entitled Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers: A visualization of results from multi-level models by L...
Links 16 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
Economic Logician: Top Economics graduate programs are not as good as you think. Felix Salmon: Jeff Bezos and His Journalists. Paul Krugman: The Good Web. "When it comes to useful economic analysis,...
