Sentence examples for cost of academic from inspiring English sources

Emily Eakin ("More Ado (Yawn) About Great Books," Education Life, April 8), who prides herself on majoring in literature without having read the classics, demonstrates the high cost of academic fashion in American higher education.

A boycott of the scientific publisher Elsevier, which stemmed from a provocative blog post by a Cambridge University mathematician last month decrying the prohibitive cost of academic journals, has grown to more than 5,700 researchers, Thomas Lin reported.

Now this issue is receiving wider attention, I hope sufficient pressure will develop to force radical changes to the way research is communicated, not only between scientists but also between scientists and the public, because this is not just about the exorbitant cost of academic journals and the behaviour of the industry that publishes them.

They hope that a victory by the governing Liberals, who have a commanding 20% to 25% lead in the polls, will lead to additional support for the cost of academic research.

It does not include the costs of academic staff, as these are already counted in the staff/student ratio.

His comments echo growing concerns from scientists who baulk at the rising costs of academic journals, particularly in a time of shrinking university budgets.

A major problem with the APC model is that it effectively shifts the costs of academic publishing from the reader to the author and therefore discriminates against those without access to the funds needed to meet these costs.

The amount of money that an institution spends providing a subject (not including the costs of academic staff, since these are already counted in the SSR) is divided by the volume of students learning the subject to derive this measure.

In recent reports, Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, concluded that differences in payments to hospitals could not be explained by variations in quality, their mix of patients or the costs of academic medicine.

With pay amounting to 58% of the costs of academic institutions, the chances that government will finance a big rise are slim.So a response to Sir Michael's report may have to come from the universities themselves.

In reports the last two years, Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, has concluded that differences in payments to hospitals cannot be explained by variations in their quality, the mix of their patients or the costs of academic medicine.