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17 mai 2015

How Much of Your Stipend Should You Spend on Rent?

By Emily Roberts. There are a few different versions of the “rule of thumb” regarding how much of your income to spend on housing. No more than 25-30% of your take-home pay seems to be the consensus, with a few outliers. But as a graduate student receiving a stipend, does this guideline apply to you? How should you figure out how much to spend on housing? Clearly, whether your university is in a high cost-of-living or a low cost-of-living area will have an enormous impact on how much you need to spend. Read more...

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17 mai 2015

Using Evernote in the Lab

By Hanna Peacock. As students in the lab we are told constantly to record everything we do… just in case we need to go back and check. “You never know what might end up being important.” We save data sheets from reagents, email correspondences, journal articles that give us ideas, notes hastily written on a paper towel, protocols inherited from from former lab members, etc. Read more...

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17 mai 2015

Dissertating While Working

By DeWitt Scott. Completing a dissertation is always a challenging task, no matter what life circumstances compete for a graduate student’s time and attention. Meeting deadlines, conducting research, and completing revisions require students to give up large parts of their schedules to acquiesce to these demands. Juggling the time and energy needed to be a graduate student can be even trickier if one also has a full-time job. Read more...

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17 mai 2015

Dutch firms call for higher education quality boost

Dutch companies have written to education minister Jet Bussemaker urging her to boost the standard of Dutch university and college education, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday. The two big Dutch employers’ organisations VNO-NCW and MKB Nederland say they are unhappy with the quality of the Dutch higher education system. Their report is in the hands of the Volkskrant. More...

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17 mai 2015

Universities offer courses for women to reenter job market

By Naohiro Yoshida. A growing number of women are taking college courses aimed at helping them reenter the job market after leaving due to marriage or having a child. More...

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17 mai 2015

Universities' plan to boost world rankings

By John Gerritsen. Universities could get a leg-up in international league tables through closer links with the Government's Crown Research Institutes.
An Education and Science Select Committee paper says New Zealand universities are suffering in the rankings because of a perceived lack of high-level research. The three main rankings are the QS, Times Higher Education, and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and they place most New Zealand institutions in the top 400 or 500 in the world. More...

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17 mai 2015

U.S. and European Scientists Sign Cooperation Pact

By Dennis Overbye. Laying the groundwork for what they said would be a new era of scientific cooperation, leaders of European and American particle physics initiatives signed an agreement at a White House ceremony on Thursday to share the spoils of their research in the coming decades. Read more...

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17 mai 2015

UK and Mexico get closer

By John Bramwell. It is normal practice in advance of state visits that a series of agreements and 'deliverables' are assembled, promoting each country's strength and commitment to collaboration and liaison. Read more...

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17 mai 2015

Jobs market faces a tsunami of university graduates

By Nader Habibi. They will join more than six million students who are currently studying in Turkey’s 170 universities. The total number of students in universities and other institutions of higher education has increased by 91%, from 3.5 million students in 2008 to 6.7 million in 2013. (Russia, with a population of 143 million, had seven million students in higher education institutions in 2013). Read more...

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17 mai 2015

What’s behind the Russian higher education cuts?

By Dmitry Semyonov. Higher education massification leads to more or less similar consequences in most countries. The change in the higher education landscape usually involves the emergence of universities which directly target non-traditional students in a bid to widen participation. Read more...

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