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Basant Kumar Mohanty reports in The Telegraph on the fairly steep fall in the number of Indian students going abroad. Since the number incl...

Computer Science Culture Clash -- John Regehr at Embedded in Academia . Earning a PhD by studying a theory that we know is wrong -- Matt ...

And the result is absolutely, awesomely, entertainingly stunning: it receives a scathing response [this post has all the relevant links], a...

It's good to see some sensible recommendations [ pdf ] against the misuse and abuse of scientometrics. Lots of professional societies a...

The Richwine affair has generated some fantastic commentary not just on the man's Harvard PhD thesis, but on the broader topic of ...

He’s probably the first person ever to lose his job because of his Harvard PhD dissertation. The 'he' here is Jason Richwine, one o...

Noah Smith at Noahpinion : If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD . ... [D]espite these caveats, the econ PhD still seems like quite a swee...

Heritage Foundation has stepped in it again, with a "report" on immigration reform [see Krugman's post ]. It has led to one go...

His 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College, now as a short film [ full text ]: This is Water - By David Foster Wallace from The Glo...

Ben Orlin , who is now a math teacher, has a fabulous personal essay on What It Feels Like to Be Bad at Math . An excerpt: As the day [of...

Prof. Jack Holman is a pioneer in the subject of heat transfer with his textbooks on thermodynamics, heat transfer and experimental methods...

Here's The Onion 's take on student evaluations: Professor Deeply Hurt by Student's Evaluation . The Dean's comment comes ri...

Could this phrase include acts that are meant to hurt a colleague's professional standing? Could someone be fired for this offence? The ...

Kazim Ali in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 2012): Poetry is Dangerous : Because of my recycling, the bomb squad came, the state poli...

Our Institute, the Indian Institute of Science, started a 4-year BS degree program in 2011, the same year in which IIT-K dumped the 5-year i...