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The article examines whether the doctoral thesis has become obsolete in British universities and colleges. Topics covered include how the average doctoral student spends almost six months of their four-year programme writing their thesis and another six months waiting for it to be examined and the pros and cons of an integrated format for doctoral papers. INSETS: 'AN ATHLETE DOES THOUSANDS OF LAPS ON THE TRACK WITH NO ONE...;CUT TO THE PAPER CHASE: A HAPPY EXAMPLE OF THE INTEGRATED....

The author proposes the reduction of words used in research papers, reports and assignments as a cost-saving measure. He mentions that the University of Shangri-La's monitoring of the monitoring of internal moderation involves international moderation of students' coursework and the performance of the monitoring process. He encourages universities to also reduce words used in regulations and specifications for their students. He suggests that students should not use fancy-sounding unnecessary terms just to reach word limits.

The author looks at the pros and cons of using monetary rewards to motivate academics to raise their research-paper output. He points out that the strategy affects recruitment and selection. He cites the rationale of business psychologists for considering money as a possible cause of dissatisfaction than satisfaction. He argues that the measurement of performance is one drawback of performance-related pay which applies the equity principle over the equality principle.

The article focuses on the difficulties in publishing interdisciplinary science papers. It includes the views of principal investigator at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona Enrique Martin-Blanco. It also discusses the use of hydrodynamic equations in the science papers, evaluation and analysis of interdisciplinary science papers, and communication between biologists and physicists.

The article focuses on an analysis of titles of journal papers submitted to Great Britain research excellence framework, according to which lengthy titles of journal papers may have a lower impact and inversely use of brief title of journal papers could have a significant positive impact.

The article reports an online access publishing platform called Winnower. The platform was created by Josh Nicholson from Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University who was frustrated with the publishing research process which motivated him to create the Winnower. The platform publishes research papers from the social media site reddit and each document has a digital object identifier that can be used to identify electronic documents.

The article offers information on the research "Your Paper has been Accepted, Rejected, or Whatever: Automatic Generation of Scientific Paper Reviews", by Eric Medvet and colleagues, published in the journal "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" which reveals robot-written review of papers.

The article discusses various aspects related to rejection of large number of research papers by journals, to achieve high impact factor. It discusses the initiative taken up by open access publisher Pascal Rocha da Silva, to compare the impact factors of 570 journals against their rejection rates, and reports that journals with highest impact factors had rejection rates of more than 90 per cent. it presents views of Jon Tennant, the communications director of ScienceOpen, on the issue.

The article presents a study led by Cody Weinberger of University of Chicago as of May 2015, which showed that short and clear abstracts result to a lower than anticipated citation count for written scientific papers.

The article reports on a seminar hosted by the Early Careers Network of University College London's Population and long Health Domain on April 22, 2015 in Great Britain. At the Rosie Bartlett and Kate Hoyland, former BBC journalists explained that researchers should think like journalists in order to get their work noticed by the press. The seminar discussed how researchers can make sure that their findings catch journalists' attention and, thereby, a wider audience.

This section offers news briefs related higher education in Great Britain as of July 2012 which include the findings of a study which reveals that university admission officers are most impressed by applicants' desire to study independently and Member of Parliament's opinion that the government should not allow free data and text mining in research papers.

The article features a teaching and research centre at the Royal Veterinary College of Great Britain in January 2012 to address concerns that too many veterinary graduates forgo research to pursue a practice career. The profession and the government believe that veterinary scientists are failing to make the contribution that they should do to solve complex world food problems and environmental issues. It also notes the college's emphasis on research projects in the undergraduate curriculum.

In this article, the author examines the plight of academic researchers in Great Britain. He claims that commercial publishers continue to reap record profits for the researchers' research papers in spite of the introduction of the Internet, where a researcher can directly publish his work online. He suggests the use of the open-access journals like the "PLoS ONE" to resolve the issue with commercial publishers.

The article focuses on a study which found that some students are so obsessed with marks that they do not bother to read the comments written by tutors on their work. It also found that students read feedback if they received a particularly bad mark or a fail. Some read comments on highly graded essays to boost their confidence. According to researcher Gary Saunders, students who received marks of between 45 and 65 would not usually read the feedback because they felt they had done well enough.

The article focuses on the suggestion for academic tutors to start their comments on students' work with a positive note and then make no more than three constructive suggestions for improvement. According to Mike Webb, course leader at Worcester University, beginning feedback with negative comments can result in students getting depressed or dropping out of their course. He recommended tutors to let students choose their preferred types of feedback at the start of the course.

The author comments on developments in the department of Palmistry at the University of Poppleton in Yorkshire, England. He states that the first-class research papers submitted to the department failed to identify the distinction between general science of palmistry or cheirosophy, the specific practices of the study of hand lines or cheirognomy and dermatoglophics or the study of skin patterns. He cites the lack of further discussion on research breakthroughs in index finger analysis.