AnotherSecretProf

No. How would that even work?

There have been a couple of incidents. In one, a first year student was found to have (probably) taken concealed notes into a test. In fact, the notes would not have helped in the slightest, so he/she was let off with a talking to. More common is plagiarism. I regularly spot the odd sentence/quote which has been lifted from somewhere else. If it is more than that, I warn the student. Once I had a whole dissertation which had full paragraphs copied from elsewhere. That student was disciplined by the university and ended up having to re-take the year.

Hmm. Interesting question. I'd have to say that I have a not very well-rounded education (a square education?:) in as much as that I have basically not left academia and am essentially now teaching what I learned as an undergraduate. But there are some caveats there. I've certainly learned research skills which got me where I am and that I was never taught (staying up all night programming for analysis or struggling through an old monograph in my spare time). So I have invested my own time, and most of us do.

This also varies a lot with discipline of course. Some areas are much more vocational and so might require more "well-rounded" experience.

Does that answer your question?

The only one that I can think of right now is that I showed a sort of demo on the projector and one of the students was so stunned that she started a whole discussion with me which roped in other students who hadn't seen it. This sort of interaction is rare. There was also the time I sneezed into the mic, that was exciting.

Hi, I'm certainly in favour of open access publishing and I think this will probably become the norm in the next 10 years. I have published open access, but only rarely because I struggle for funding and most of these outlets work on an "author pays" model. Universities kind of have to agree how this is all going to work without the risks of vanity publishing.

I studied at a Russell Group institution, but don't know a lot about how it operates and not sure how meaningful a label it is now. So my feelings are pretty neutral!