By Liz Homan. Wait! Don’t stop reading, grad student singles. Despite my potentially misleading title, this post is not only for the partnered among us. It is not only for those of us with boyfriends, girlfriends, live-in partners, or spouses. No, this post is for every graduate student, single or otherwise, who sustains a relationship with someone who means the world to them – be it a parent, a best friend, or a partner. It is for all of us. Read more...
Dissertation does NOT mean divorce
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The hybridization of vocational training and higher education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
By Lukas Graf. The post draws on a recent book: Graf, L. (2013) The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Opladen/Berlin/Toronto, Budrich UniPress. Click here to download the book for free.
This guest entry looks at institutional changes in the relationship between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE) in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It is quite common for foreign observers to praise these three countries for the quality of their VET systems. All three countries are part of the “collective skill system cluster” (Busemeyer and Trampusch 2012) and are renowned for their extensive dual apprenticeship training systems at upper-secondary level. See more...
A Pedagogy of Digital Humanities?
By AnaMaria Seglie. Many of the discussions that I’ve had with scholars about Digital Humanities projects address concerns about a project’s research value. What’s the “shelf life” of this project? (Ironically, they are projects without "shelves" of course!) How will it add to and continue to grow with scholarly discussions? These are all necessary and important questions – ones that we ask of any new piece of work, theory, criticism, etc. However, Digital Humanities also highlights an equally significant and, often times, overshadowed series of questions about teaching. How can we use these projects in our classrooms? How will they enhance our discussions and our students’ experience? More...