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Which higher education journals have the highest “prestige”?

Posted on June 24, 2019August 5, 2019by Peter Bentley

As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, I like to know why authors choose to submit research to our journal. The journal publisher, Taylor and Francis, surveys authors and reports results to me […]

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From plagiarism to predatory journals: academic misconduct, misrepresentation, and gaming

Posted on March 20, 2019July 8, 2019by Katerina Guba
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When we hear the words academic misconduct, we usually think of individuals involved in plagiarism and other kinds of unethical scholarly behavior, and less often of organizations implicated in such affairs. […]

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Satire, Resignation and Anger around Higher Education Rankings and Wankings

Posted on January 7, 2019June 9, 2020by Jelena Brankovic
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For a while now, university rankings have been intensely debated all over the world. Despite the prevailing sentiment among academics that rankings are harming the academic profession, the actual resistance […]

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