By Cheryl E. Ball. In a previous column,I wrote about finding your academic fit when you go on the job market by figuring out what kind of college or department with which your sensibilities and abilities might best align. That advice focused on being introspective -- asking yourself some philosophical questions -- and on seeking the advice of your adviser or mentor. You can also teach yourself about what institutions pride themselves from reading their job ads. Read more...
By Katy Meyers. My first five years of grad school, I lived within walking distance of the campus. I always felt that being close to the university community was important for bonding with other students and becoming a part of the general area. I loved spending my Sundays buying fresh vegetables from the university’s farmers markets, visiting campus on Saturdays for tailgating, and being able to quickly pop over to campus whenever I needed to. I would strongly suggest living near campus for your first couple years of grad school. However, that isn’t always possible and sometimes plans change. Read more...
The ILO's International Training Centre (ITC-ILO) and the ETF will jointly offer a new training and knowledge-sharing course on career guidance policies and practices. The training in Turin, Italy, on 21-25 October 2013 is designed for planners and decision makers in employment, education and training. It responds to an increasing demand for career guidance and related capacity-building services in partner countries.
Course content
The one-week course will comprise five learning units:
(1) The need and rationale for career guidance;
(2) Delivery models of career guidance - finding the optimal career guidance mix;
(3) The crucial role of labour market and career information;
(4) Key elements of effective career guidance;
(5) Next steps of policy implementation - key messages and ways forward.
The course will pay special attention to the specific issues (i.e. informal economy, negative stereotyping of technical and vocational education and training (TVET), specific meaning of 'career'), which developing and transition countries need to address when building career guidance services.
Lecturers and scientific support
Activity manager of the course is Mostefa Boudiaf (ITC-ILO) and the main lecturers will be Dr Gideon Arulmani (India), Dr John McCarthy (ICCDPP), Donna Koeltz (ILO) and Helmut Zelloth (ETF). Scientific support in the course design has been provided by Professor Ronald Sultana (Malta) and Dr Aboubakr Badawi (Egypt).
Expected participants
The course is targeted both to employment and education/training sector representatives:
• Employment, TVET and education planners at national, regional and local government levels;
• Employment services staff;
• Representatives of employers and workers' organisations;
• Members of boards of trustees of educational and training institutions and bodies, or similar committees; and
• Leaders in guidance professional societies and unions.
Deadline for application
The deadline for application is 16 September 2013. Interested candidates are kindly requested to fill in the online registration form. The course leaflet provides more information.
NB: The ETF, as a decentralised agency of the European Union, is a non-profit entity. The course fees are charged solely by the ILO to cover for the tuition fees and specified subsistence costs.
By Liz Koblyk. Talking about career chaos usually doesn’t win you any points with people in the midst of career exploration. But thinking about how to make use of chaos is a smart idea.
You don’t need a robust, scholarly understanding of chaos theory in order to have a useful framework for thinking about careers. You just need the understanding that large events can have large impacts on your career – but so can small events. Those small events have the ability to shape your career and move it in new, unpredicted directions. More...
Von Christine Xuân Müller. Professoren brauchen keine Beratung, hieß es lange. Das Hochschulmagazin "duz" zeigt, dass auch etablierte Forscher lernen müssen, in Uni-Hierarchien voran zu kommen. Doktoranden hilft der Coach auch bei der Frage: Abbrechen oder weitermachen?
Wer Raum 2.06 der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin (HWR) betritt, taucht ein in eine untypische Büroatmosphäre. Das kleine Zimmer versprüht Wohnzimmercharme: Duft von frisch gebrühtem Ingwer-Orange-Kräutertee liegt in der Luft, warme, freundliche Beleuchtung, Naturfotos an den Wänden und dezente klassische Musik. Kreisförmig angeordnete Stühle mit weichen Kissen laden zum Verweilen ein. Mehr...
By David Evans. My first chair position was in a six-person department at another small college here in Iowa. We had a fairly regular rotating-chair system, and my term came early: I’d been there almost six years and had just been approved for tenure and promotion when the incumbent chair, who was finishing her first year of a three-year term, took another job and departed. I was next in line but had expected to wait another couple of years; I was very young, and had not yet really become a “player” on campus in the areas where real power and influence were exerted. More...
By Melonie Fullick. Recently, the American Historical Association (AHA) posted a policy statement that caused some controversy among academics, because of its recommendation that universities should allow junior scholars the option of a 6-year embargo on electronic publication of their dissertations.
The argument goes that younger or early career researchers (ECRs) need the option of an embargo because widely-available dissertations might not be acceptable to publishers in book form. Some universities make it mandatory for students to submit their dissertations to an open online database, so the embargo would ensure that ECRs have the option of keeping their research private until it’s ready for publication. Read more...
By Jo VanEvery. Everyone knows that you have to publish. And yet, many academics struggle. Even if you don’t struggle with the actual writing, you may find it hard to submit your work. Sometimes your fears about submitting lead you to publish in not quite the right places, affecting your ability to secure a tenure-track job, a grant, or a promotion.
Why are you publishing?
I have noticed that many of the conversations about publishing are focused on those secondary outcomes: hiring, promotion, grants. It’s as if publishing were like those cards the coffee shop gives you: 10 stamps and you get a free coffee; write articles for X number of publications and you’ll get a job/promotion/grant. More...
By Jo VanEvery. This is a post for those readers who are starting something new this fall:
Although you may have officially started already, it is the beginning of the fall semester that will feel like the real beginning. More...
By Marielk. The 26th CHER Annual Conference will take place at University of Lausanne from 9 to 11 September 2013.
This year, the conference is themed “The Roles of Higher Education and Research in the Fabric of Societies“, and it is jointly organised by the Observatory Science, Politic and Society (OSPS) and the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) of the University of Lausanne Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
If you are an early career researcher – there is also a relevant pre-conference event. The Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER) is holding a whole day seminar on 8th of September, that will be open to all existing and new members. Read more about ECHER network here. Read more...
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