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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
At £67,750 ($103,000), the overall cost of a two-year M.B.A. at the London Business School is one of the more eye-watering price tags in British higher education. To put it into some kind of perspective, with that sum you could buy a brand-new Porsche Panamera 4 with change for fuel. But for LBS Dean Andrew Likierman, the worth of his institution’s premium degree transcends mere pounds and pence. And he is also keen to dispel any notion that LBS is a cash cow -- an accusation that has been leveled at British business schools.
Penn In the News
At £67,750 ($103,000), the overall cost of a two-year M.B.A. at the London Business School is one of the more eye-watering price tags in British higher education. To put it into some kind of perspective, with that sum you could buy a brand-new Porsche Panamera 4 with change for fuel. But for LBS Dean Andrew Likierman, the worth of his institution’s premium degree transcends mere pounds and pence. And he is also keen to dispel any notion that LBS is a cash cow -- an accusation that has been leveled at British business schools.
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“A double helix? Bit speculative.” “I regret to say that we cannot offer publication at this time. While your model is very appealing, referee three finds that it is somewhat speculative and premature for publication.” No doubt most scientists have been on the receiving end of similar comments from journal editors, but surely Francis Crick and James Watson’s landmark 1953 papers on the structure of DNA would be immune to such quibbles?
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Nearly three-quarters of academics in the Republic of Ireland say that working conditions have deteriorated in the wake of mass job cuts and rising student numbers, a study has found. Higher education funding shrank by 29 percent between 2007 and 2014, but student numbers have risen by 16 percent over the same period, according to the report, Creating a Supportive Working Environment for Academics in Higher Education. Since 2007, staffing levels have been reduced by 17 percent, or 3,500 posts.
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The president of Saudi Arabia’s flagship graduate research university has rejected calls for him to condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in the country.
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Last week’s report that King’s College London has dropped its plan to become known as King’s London has rekindled the debate on institutional rebrands. Here are some of the dos and don’ts of name changes in Britain -- and whether it is really worth it.
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Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge. In January last year, Sander Dekker, the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, decreed that 60 percent of Dutch research articles must be open access by 2019 and 100 percent by 2024.