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Depending on the requirements of your institution, undergraduate students may need a thesis to graduate. In some institutions, the thesis is optional, and students can chose between an exam or a thesis. If you are a new university professor, you...

‘French do love forms! They are the most bureaucratic bunch of people I have ever encountered’. These were my thoughts after living several weeks in France. In 2008 I decided to study half a year in my favorite country. The first weeks I lived my...

As a  frequent reviewer  and  journal editor , I'm seeing (and reading) quite a lot of articles. Unfortunately, I am also seeing a number of mistakes that are repeated over and over again - both by experienced authors and novice writers. If you...

Since a few months, I've been taking on the task of being editor in chief of the science and engineering journal  ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierias , the technical journal of Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Being the editor in chief of a...

"As a serious academic, you should spend all your waking hours working on your research and you should not have a life or family", some seem to argue, or that seems to be the undercurrent of some of the "I've had 4 hours of sleep over the last 6...