Online Research: an efficient pretext to educate engineers to inform themselves[1]

At the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, future engineers and young workers are now being regularly trained in documentary and scientific research techniques. This training is original in the sense that it is mainly based on the practical notions of online research as a pretext for acquiring a more general cognitive view of problem-solving: knowing how to define a problem, specifying the problem's environment, defining the potential areas of resource for solving a problem, etc. In other words, online research is an approach to training engineers to be receptive to: system analysis, value analysis, creativity techniques, problem-solving, critical analysis. Training in online information research using this approach, becomes a synthesising educational activity. It reveals a lack in basic training and is at the same time connected to computer assisted teaching (CAT).     

Higher Education and Industry: towards a new partnership for improving engineering education

From a historical view-point, university and industry have had a long experience of cooperation, with differing results according to the countries, the fields of knowledge or activity, and the particular period. During the last 10-15 years, new trends have appeared within society and one can observe changing roles, in education or in research. In the near future, new concepts and new schemes will be developed for better cooperation between higher education and industry: ‘co-formation’, responsibility-shared education, design of new programmes with a large part for sandwich courses, production of pedagogical resources, joint ventures for special educational programmes and systems ? As far as the partnership is concerned, more than in the past, university and industry have to explore new ways. It is a necessity for both.     

竞技体育政策的全球化与重建——从行政控制到网络化管理

简要介绍了自我管理体制的概念,分别说明了系统管理、政策管理、组织管理3种管理方式及其在竞技运动政策领域中的应用。最后思考了英国竞技运动管理体制的某些方面,包括政府为竞技运动发展、高水平竞技运动和学校竞技运动所制订的政策。     

Regulating Academic Pressure: From Fast to Slow

This paper investigates the impact of publication pressure on the ethics and the scientific integrity in the domain of mathematics and of the arts. Both research fields are specific in their methodology, being that they do not start from a classical hypothesis and researchers in these areas are not knowing what the outcome will be. The research design is open, and creativity is a main part of the research investigation. Both research fields do not rely on empirical cases nor on data collection or data handling. This could be a reason why mathematics and arts seem to be less subject to scientific misconduct. After presenting the (inter)national regulations on ethics and integrity, we will investigate a philosophical analysis in which we consider possible influences from publication pressure that became widespread over all disciplines. We will clarify if and how mathematics and the arts are sensitive to scientific research misconduct or questionable research practices.