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HLS: News: Harvard Law School launches new Public Service Initiative "Harvard Law School is announcing that it will pay the third year of tuition for all future students who commit to work in public service for five years following graduation. " (tags: academia economics law society) Oh, he's…
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 7.1: Rewards and Bribes « The Inverse Square Blog "[W]hen sheer love of words and sentences and ideas canât carry you through, what can you fall back on? Bribery." (tags: writing books levenson) Matthew Yglesias » Book Launch 2.0 As someone…
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: More Doctors of Philosophy (and Science) The number of Ph.D.'s awarded goes up, but most of the increase is among foreign-born researchers. (tags: academia US education) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Access and…
Confessions of a Community College Dean: False Economies "[S]elf-defeating efforts at cost control" See also "deferred maintenance." (tags: academia economics stupid politics) Maths plus 'geeky' images equals deterred students This week, in the Journal of Unsurprising Results. (tags: math…