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The article discusses the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), highlighting its focus on international policy concerns and major economic powers. Topics on the PIIE website include a vast array of documents covering blogs, commentaries, multimedia, event announcements, working papers, policy briefs, and more, with a strong emphasis on transparency and accessibility to research by their senior researchers and staff analysts in multiple languages.

The article discusses the conference peer-review process and ways in which it can be improved. Because it has become impossible to distinguish valid research papers from hoaxes at jargon-filled high-technology computer conferences, the author suggests that the quality of computer science conferences is being questioned. He proposes a systematic understanding of quality assurance at computer conferences as a phenomenon that needs analysis and a solution with a look at responsibility and ethics among professionals.

This paper examines the challenges of developing research resources for leading Vietnamese universities. The first part of the paper presents the background to the study, including literature review on the challenges to research resources development, and describes the research questions and research methods. The next part provides empirical findings on types of research resources, availability of resources, and challenges for resources development at leading Vietnamese universities. In the final part, the paper discusses the major findings and provides suggestions for further analysis on Vietnam's university research sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on an empirical study of research planning in Canadian universities. Drawing on data compiled during interviews with senior administrators from 27 academic units in 10 universities, the paper analyses how strategic planning been applied to the research mission over the past decade. Finding reveal variability in processes and attitudes about planning, while suggesting that the scope of planning activities in most cases has been somewhat narrow and short-term. The implications of these findings for the administration of research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the drivers for knowledge exchange in British research-intensive universities, at a time when research impact is coming to be seen as an increasingly important outcome of research in all disciplines. It provides evidence of an over-emphasis of the economic benefits of knowledge exchange in the policy sphere and of a quite different value system amongst academics. Academics' commitments having been described as occupying a single bounded space, this enhanced understanding of the motivations and needs of academics as they engage in knowledge exchange points to a new way of approaching the facilitation and promotion of knowledge exchange activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the British government's announcement on July 16, 2012 that taxpayer-financed research would be accessible online for free, which prompted the European Union (EU) to do the same. Topics include the annual profits made by academic journal publishers such as Elsevier and the competition between researchers to have papers published, which increases the value of the journals.

The article focuses on the importance of collective bargaining to postdoctoral employees in the U.S. The Postdoctoral Researchers Organize, a campaign affiliated With the United Auto Workers (PRO/AUW), was mentioned. The PRO/UAW campaign was centered on individual visits with postdocs and discussions of the benefits of collective bargaining. Postdoctoral employees are under pressure to produce research and papers but is hindered by the lack of funding. Many saw collective bargaining as an insurance policy against the arbitrary nature of the bureaucracy.

The article focuses on the 1st European Networks Conference on Sustainability in Practice, held in Berlin, Germany, April 1-3, 2004. This conference focused particularly on examples of "best practice" in Europe. The goal has been to obtain an inter and transdisciplinary understanding on the latest developments in international practice, research and education on sustainability issues. A networks fair, workshops and panels are being organized to present and discuss examples of European "best practice", such as case studies, training programs, and research/project papers. The participants would discuss potentials in transferring and managing expertise in sustainable development between science, business, politics and society.

The article discusses the increasing circulation and publication of research papers in universities. It suggests that universities need to concentrate on academics and reward teaching excellence rather than on the amount of research papers that educators have published. The priorities of academicians must be their teaching loads and skills development because the learnings that they intend to update in their field can also be extracted from other ways such as reading academic journals.

The article suggests the best practice models and principles that universities and faculty senates in the U.S. should adopt to ensure the consistency of commercial and academic-industry relationships on campus with the university's core academic research and educational missions. It stresses the important role that the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) should play in implementing these practices, including issuing appropriate statements of concern and undertaking investigations whenever sufficient evidence exists to warrant such action. Some of the examples of best practices are cited, including dissuading faculty members from lending their names to commercially ghostwritten papers or research.

The article examines issues and developments in higher education in the United States citing a paper issued by the Commission on the Future of Higher Education with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. The Spellings Report studied issues on access, affordability, quality and accountability in higher education. It recommends improvements in affordability, increased transparency and accountability and initiatives towards continuous innovation.

Reports that two national education organizations are about to test how well reforms on paper can restructure U.S. high schools. Research project of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools; Problem with the schools are organized; Search for funding for the project.

Comments on the education research paper 'Wait Time Slowing Down May Be a Way of Speeding Up,' by Mary Budd Rowe, published in the January-February 1986 issue of the 'Journal of Teacher Education.' Need of teachers to increase their wait time when interacting with students; Benefits offered by prolonged wait time.