Measures to ensure it has real bite makes it essential for any serving editors or senior executives to be eliminated from the standards and appeals committee and replaced by equal numbers of lawyers, media academics, lay members and – why not? – former editors no longer tied to a title or group.
And more importantly: Who is writing Wikipedia articles on academics (lay users, academics, or the subjects of the article and their immediate social surroundings)?
And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.
It was good to see Michael Gove at last recognising that both drama and dance have a real place on the curriculum, but what putting these subjects in an exam context fails to acknowledge is the lifeline they offer to children whose talents may not be academic but lie in other areas.
Maura's visit to the doctor prompts her to think about how she'd like to realise her gender in a biological sense, while Ali is looking to her heritage to help her better understand where her own academic interests lie: talk of DNA and the appearance of Gershon suggest these two lines of inquiry may be connected.
Having read the first article in this series, you'll have an idea of where the real differences between industrial and academic postdocs lie.
It seemed clear that a distinguished academic career lay ahead of him; nevertheless, Smuts wanted to return to South Africa.
She was a prolific contributor to academic and lay publications, often on the theme of communist subversion.
On the contrary, the path to academic fame lies in challenging conventional wisdom, which means that researchers have an incentive to come up with attention-grabbing results.
Ultimately, Ms. Strasser says, the richness of waste as a topic for academic investigation lies in how people choose to designate it.
