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Als Fensterputzer hat er angefangen, mittlerweile lenkt er eine Firma mit 15.000 Angestellten: Putzpatriarch Karlheinz Götz wollte aber auch einen Doktortitel - und reichte eine wohl sehr magere Arbeit in Spanien ein. "Schamlos", urteilen Experten laut einem Zeitungsbericht.
Auf diese Arbeit hat die Wissenschafts-Community eher nicht gewartet - und wer sie dennoch gelesen hat, urteilt ziemlich harsch über das Werk mit dem Titel "Die Entwicklung des Schulwesens in der Oberpfalz und in der Freien Reichsstadt Regensburg bis 1810 sowie Salzburg bis 1816", erschienen im Jahr 2005, als Doktorarbeit eingereicht in Oviedo, Spanien. Mehr...

By James Hoff. Adjuncts are over-worked, underpaid and have little job security. It's an injustice, and it hurts higher education. I am what's called an adjunct. I teach four courses per semester at two different colleges, and I am paid just $24,000 a year and receive no health or pension benefits. Recently, I was profiled in the New York Times as the face of adjunct exploitation, and though I was initially happy to share my story because I care about the issue, the profile has its limits. Rather than use my situation to explain the systemic problem of academic labor, the article personalized – even romanticized – my situation as little more than the deferred dream of a struggling PhD with a penchant for poetry. More...

Jedes Jahr brechen Tausende Deutsche ihr Studium ab - Bildungsministerin Wanka will sich jetzt um sie kümmern: In Pilotprojekten sollen die gescheiterten Akademiker Handwerksberufe lernen.
Abiturienten steuern nach der Schule oft automatisch die Hochschule an. Doch für viele stellt sich diese Entscheidung bald als falsch heraus: Fast 30 Prozent der Bachelor-Studenten beenden derzeit ihren anfangs eingeschlagenen Studienweg nicht. Um diese Abbrecher will sich Bundesbildungsministerin Johanna Wanka (CDU) jetzt verstärkt kümmern: "Wir brauchen einen engeren Kontakt zwischen Studienabbrechern sowie den Kammern und Unternehmen, damit diese schnell zueinander finden", sagte Wanka der "Welt am Sonntag". Mehr...

By Jessica Higgins. In a class this past December, after I wrote some directions on the board for students about their final examination, one young woman quickly snapped a picture of the board using her smartphone. It wasn’t the first time a student had taken a picture instead of taking notes, nor was she the only student in that class who was using this photographic note-taking method. But perhaps because she was sitting in the front row, or perhaps because her phone flashed, she drew my attention. More...

By Jessica Higgins. Several years ago, I received a call from a student whose voice betrayed his sense of frustration and defeat. Despite studying for days, he had just failed the final exam in an introductory computer-programming course, along with the majority of the class. For the first time in my experience as an educator and administrator, I paused to wonder why we don’t question the failure rate in these classes. We’ve all met professors who point to a low pass rate as documentation of their ability to create a worthy college course. But in the world of continuing education—where we dedicate ourselves to healing those students who have been undermined by the pedagogy of elimination—we have a responsibility to challenge the philosophy behind a course whose primary role is to limit the number of students who pursue that field of study. More...