By Kerry Provenzano. Social media could help you get a job – if you use it to your advantage. The thought of graduating and finding a job can be daunting. The idea that our student bubble is going to be popped with the sharp edges of a graduation cap is enough to make us want to hibernate. More...
By Bryony Merritt. There's no shortage of female expertise in universities, yet men's voices still predominate in the media. Bryony Merritt looks at what university press officers can do to redress the balance. As a press officer, I believe communications teams have a role to play in supporting women to feel confident about interviews, and increasing their visibility both within the institution and more widely. More...
By Camille Kandiko Howson. Global competition for international students is growing – the UK needs to start treating them as people and learners, not numbers. For the first time in 29 years the number of international students enrolling in England's universities decreased. In 2013, there was a 50% drop in the number of postgraduate students coming from India and Pakistan, and close to a 25% drop in the number of students who enrolled from the EU compared with last year. More...
By Anonymous academic. I drink too much and haven't had a good night's sleep since last year when I began my PhD. Why? Research. Academic research is dangerous. I am not a nuclear physicist, nor an heir to Dr Frankenstein, so I shall have to explain further. More...
By Julia Molinari. Students are paying agencies to write their essays. Julia Molinari asks whether it can ever be considered ethical – and what universities can do to detect and stop it. If you Google "academic proofreading," you will see a list of sites offering to "proof" your work. What they are also offering, however, is to write your assignments for you. How do I know this? There are two main reasons. More...
By Peter Scott. The world of work is changing – challenging how we think, and pay for, higher education, says Peter Scott. There are uncanny parallels between the flawed privatisation of the railways in the 1990s and the government's failing higher education reforms today. More...
By Robert Talbert. We’ve seen a significant ramping up of interest in – and exposure to – the flipped/inverted classroom over the last few years, and it’s been nice to see an uptick in the amount of research being done into its effectiveness. But one thing that’s been lacking has been a consensus on what the flipped classroom actually is. If a professor assigns readings to do before class and then holds discussions in class, is that “the flipped classroom”? I’ve said in the past that it is not (necessarily), but that’s just me. Now, however, a group of educators and others interested in flipped learning are proposing a common definition of flipped learning, and it’s pretty interesting. More...
By Vincent DeFrancesco. Hello, and welcome to The Chronicle Book Club’s first discussion! This week we are discussing the introduction and first chapter of What Is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education, edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis. The duo express at the outset that their book is “unabashedly normative” and that their intention is to encourage debate. With that in mind, let’s have a civil discussion, whether or not you agree with the book’s underlying premises. More...
By Timothy Larsen. I teach in an M.A. program in history at a small liberal-arts college. We have a strong track record of placing our students in good doctoral programs. Because we do not offer a Ph.D., however, we are also free to be candid about why going on to a doctorate might not make much sense in financial and career terms. Five years ago, we starting giving our students William Pannapacker’s essay “Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go.” Some cohorts heard this earnest advice on as many as six occasions. More...
The following is by William G. Durden, former president of Dickinson College. It is adapted from a speech he gave Wednesday at the Forum on Education Abroad’s annual meeting in San Diego.
Higher education in the United States is not prepared to lead the future of study abroad.
It is mired in past assumptions and internal professional disputes disconnected from public demand and opportunity. And despite “cosmetic” tweaks to traditional programs, what is potentially the future of education abroad eludes us. More...
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