Questions tagged [fees]
Questions concerning monetary costs associated with higher education, publishing, or other academic activities, specifically those not formally considered [tuition] or not related to standard research [funding] mechanisms.
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Is it suspicious for a conference abstract submission to be subordinated to registration?
My PhD advisor and I wish to participate to a specific international conference in our field.
The program seems legitimate and part of the scientific committee are respected researchers of my field, ...
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Interview not reimbursed if offer is made but not accepted (UK)
I'm applying for Lecturer positions in the UK (entry-level faculty, other academic systems might call the position "Assistant Professor").
I just got short-listed for one of the positions I have ...
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Where does one get the funding to participate in a conference as a student?
I received a few invitations to conferences on physics. In Australia, in Japan, in France, and others. I am finishing graduate school. But how can I take part in these conferences, if I need 1,000 ...
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Travel reimbursement for interview after accepting another position
I know a PhD student (X) who is soon to defend, reaching the end of his funding, and has thus been applying to PostDoc positions. He was applying to two positions in two different groups.
The first ...
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Publication fee will not be paid at deadline – what will happen and how should I proceed?
My team's article was published online 2018, with me as the lead author and corresponding author. The print publication followed in early 2019. Shortly thereafter I received the bill for the ...
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Are there application fees for PhD positions in Europe? [closed]
I'm new to the applying process and I'd like to ask a simple question. Does a PhD position in European universities require an application fee?
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Bench fees: typical procedure and rates for visiting students?
Over the summer I visited a research station at a different university to collect data for my PhD work. I received an invoice (nearly two months after the fact) for bench fees related to my stay in ...
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Professor charging class cash for magazine [duplicate]
I'm in a writing comp class and my professor is charging the class each a cash fee for a New Yorker magazine which is part of the required classwork. Is this allowed and is it considered ethical, ...
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Would using an application fee waiver affect my admission result in a negative way?
I am applying to an Ivy League university in the US as an international student for a Ph.D. program. They have application fee waivers for students with financial hardship.
Would using it (or even ...
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Who should cover conferences expenses for research work done in a lab a researcher just left for another lab?
It would be quite interesting to have others' experience and opinion on what guidelines are followed, and/or would make sense to follow regarding conference expenses for a researcher having recently ...
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Ethics of making students purchase lecture notes
I have a professor who has published his lecture notes in the form of a book. The only way to get access to his lecture notes is to purchase them from an off-campus bookstore. To me, this seems like a ...
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Would it be professional to ask my host to cover my dining and commuting expenses?
I'm a M.Sc student in europe who is collaborating with a prof on a research project. He works in an institute which is in a different city than mine. He has offered to cover my up and down weekely ...
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Is there something like withdrawal charges?
I have served as a reviewer for allied academies and decided to submit an article myself, but couldn't find any info regarding APCs.
After some months I was told that my article is accepted and I have ...
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Received a mail from a collections agency
This is slightly long so please bear with me. This is for a friend and I'll be writing from his perspective.
I am an international graduate student at the University A. In 2016 when I was receiving ...
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Splitting conference expenses between authors
Suppose I submit a paper with a co-author to an expensive computer science conference, and we agree to split the expenses between us. How can it be done, from a bureaucratic perspective?
Suppose it ...
