Achilleas Kostoulas

Just how effective are the University Entrance Exams?

Every year thousands of young students in Greece take the University Entrance Exams, which largely determine their future. It’s imperative that we get…

Non-Native Speakers of English need not apply

A reminder that linguistic discrimination is still quite alive, even among academics who claim to be working in the ‘critical’ tradition

Teaching English to Young Learners: Some insights from the literature

As more and more schools…

Three myths about learning English in the primary school

Across the world, schools are intensifying…

Fake papers are not the real problem in science

In the aftermath of the retraction of 120 nonsense academic paper, we need to seriously reflect on what made such a debacle possible

Fake papers: What do they reveal about the academe?

Why do academics keep publishing papers that do not report on actual science?

I think it’s fair to say that 2013 was a year that put the peer-review process to the…

Restructuring Higher Education, the Greek way

When the Greek Ministry of Education decided that something needs to be done; this is something; therefore it must be done.