By Katie Allen. Despite what Osborne says, many people with degrees are being forced to take low-skilled roles away from their expertise. One of the many things George Osborne is likely to hail in his autumn statement on Thursday is the long-awaited recovery in Britain's jobs market. More...
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Why have academics been so slow to work with students on sustainability?
Simon Kemp asks what is preventing academics and students going green together given the obvious wins when they do. Earlier this year the National Union of Students (NUS) awarded 25 student unions a share of £5m over two years through the Hefce funded Students' Green Fund to develop high impact sustainability projects for the benefit of local communities and students themselves. More...
UK ranks above US for research quality in government report
By Claire Shaw. BIS study finds UK producing less academic research in science, mathematics and engineering than a decade ago. The UK is producing less research in science, mathematics and engineering than a decade ago, but has surpassed the US to be ranked first for its research quality, according to a new report. More...
L’échec progresse en licence
Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois. Note d’information de la DEPP, Réussite et échec en premier cycle (Samuel Fouquet, octobre 2013). En 2010-2011, 41% des bacheliers 2008 entrés en L1 étaient en 3ème année de licence, après deux années réussies sans encombre. Les bacheliers 2002-2004 avaient fait mieux : le taux d’accès à la L3 était de 43%. Le taux a dû encore se dégrader dans les promotions suivantes de bacheliers (bacheliers professionnels plus nombreux à l’université, conséquence de la réforme du bac pro en 3 ans au lieu de 4). Le plan Licence a échoué, mais cela tout le monde le savait déjà. Et maintenant que fait-on pour changer la donne ? On change seulement les intitulés des formations (projet d’arrêté sur le cadre national des formations) ? On rend encore plus illisible et inefficace le dispositif Admission post-bac ? Suite de l'article...
What If I Paid You To Study In The Library?
By Brian Mathews. If I paid you to study in the library you would likely take me up on the offer. And if I paid you and your group to study there together, then you would definitely use the library more often. That’s the gist of a recent economics study: Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives. More...
WordFlow for Distraction-Free Editing
By Amy Cavender. Writing — it’s one of the things we do a lot, and many of us here at ProfHacker are often on the lookout for new tools that can help us with the writing task. One of the most essential tools (other than some good ideas, of course!) for getting the writing task done is a good text editor. We’ve covered text editors before, of course, and have been particularly fond of plain-text editors, whose power Lincoln reminded us of last year. We also like being able to access our files from anywhere, so some of the editors we’ve looked at have been online: Jason introduced us to TextDrop, and George called our attention to Drive Notepad. More...
The Rise of the Machines Edition
By Erin E. Templeton. We at ProfHacker like books. Apparently so do many of you. The New York Times ran an article earlier this week about the “Allure of the print book.” Esquire followed with “The Revenge of the Printed Book.” Newsweek, which ended print circulation last year in favor of pure digital circulation, has announced that it will resume hard copy in February 2014. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Amazon Prime Air this week that consumers may begin to receive their purchases via drone as early and June 2015. Not to be outdone, UPS announced that they too are working on entering the drone delivery market. The New York Times reports that Google is also getting into the robot game. Slate claims that the drone-delievery idea is “hot air,” perhaps akin to those jetpacks we were promised in my youth . . . In a separate article, Slate takes a rather different tack by claiming, “Birds will attack delivery drones.” More...
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