In this study, academic freedom in teacher education is related to preservice teachers’ possibilities develop critical and autonomous thinking teaching practice. Self-awareness self-confidence provide certainty deal with the uncertain situation where creativity judgment must be given priority over an instrumental based on authorities, effective methods or ready-made solutions. Teacher educators...

Shared experiences but diversified developments make Africa an interesting region in which to investigate the impact of education on democracy, and role academic freedom this impact. As building expertise takes time, we focus causality between past experience electoral democracy. Our theory is that independent experts advocating free fair elections are acclaimed, makes rigging a costly strategy...

The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content of medical journals in three ways: (1) by ghostwriting articles that bias the results of clinical trials, (2) by the sheer economic power they exert ...

Avian Biology, reviewed by A. Keast; Geography of Domestication, R. I. Ford; Mountain Sheep, R. M. F. S. Sadleir; Numerical Weather Prediction, Y. Kurihara; Bioinorganic Chemistry, A. Hooper; Aspects of Terpenoid Chemistry and Biochemistry and Terpenoids and Steroids, R. A. Bernihard; Changing Syntheses in Development, P. J. Stambrook; Neurotransmitter-Receptor Interactions, D. H. Jenkinson and...

Drawing on scholarship around academic freedom and new public management, this article explores the way in which research ethics committees in UK universities (URECs) can come to exhibit behaviour - common in their US equivalents - that prioritises the reputational protection of their host institution over and above academic freedom and the protection of research subjects. Drawing on two case s...

We develop a model that clari…es the respective advantages and disadvantages of academic and private-sector research. Our model assumes full protection of intellectual property rights at all stages of the development process, and hence does not rely on lack of appropriability or spillovers to generate a rationale for academic research. Instead, we focus on controlrights considerations, and argu...

In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponsored party, and hopefully a...

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