By . The number of students awarded a first-class degree soared by 14 per cent last year. More...
17 janvier 2015
17 janvier 2015
Part-time student numbers continue to dive
By . Part-time student numbers have continued a dramatic decline after falling by 8 per cent last year, new figures show. More...
17 janvier 2015
University ‘equal pay’ days marked by protests
By . Student groups are holding a series of protests this month against pay inequality in universities. To raise awareness about the “grossly unequal distribution of wealth on our campuses”, student groups allied to the left-wing National Campaign against Fees and Cuts will hold protests throughout January on the days when they say principals’ pay will exceed the total annual salary of low-paid staff, such as outsourced cleaners. More...
17 janvier 2015
Extra-curricular activities now ‘more important’ to university applications
By . Most admissions staff believe achievements outside the classroom are more important to gaining a university place than 10 years ago, a new study says. More...
17 janvier 2015
Do you know what career path to take?
By Jennifer Polk. “When did you decide to leave academia?” This question, or some version of it — “How did you know that you didn’t want to be a professor?” for example — is one I’m regularly asked. It comes up in conversation, on Twitter, or when I’m on a careers panel. It’s a fair inquiry, and the questioner tends to ask because she is wrestling with making a decision about her own future. But it’s a question that I can’t answer. More...
17 janvier 2015
Lessons learned from a grad course on professional development
By Nana Lee, Zayna Khayat and Reinhart Reithmeier. Improving your ability to communicate your research clearly and concisely can help you secure funding, impress in job interviews and even just refocus your brain when you get stuck on a paper or article. More...
17 janvier 2015
Engaging Audiences: Episode 2 – Make it visual
By Shari Graydon. Improving your ability to communicate your research clearly and concisely can help you secure funding, impress in job interviews and even just refocus your brain when you get stuck on a paper or article. More...
17 janvier 2015
The evolution of porn studies
By Chantal Braganza. As pornography has proliferated in the digital era, so too has its study, even though this multidisciplinary field has been around for at least 30 years. But, say scholars, the study of sexually explicit subject matter has often been muddied by a binary pro- or anti-porn attitude. More...
17 janvier 2015
Using a Kindle for academic reading
By Melonie Fullick. If you’re like me and you’re attached to the sensory experience of using paper, and you don’t like having ever-increasing numbers of gadgets around, then you might not have considered using any kind of e-reader. You might have sniffed at the idea of abandoning the pleasures of books and papers in order to squint at a wee screen. More...
17 janvier 2015
Quarterly summary: Unresolved debate with a silver lining
By David Kent. This quarter featured one of our most heavily commented on posts since the classic “Say NO to the second postdoc entry” in 2009, but unlike the personal angst that the postdoctoral post dredged up, this quarter’s “Sorry Rick Mercer, I’d love to agree but I think you’re wrong” post was about the level of interest Canadians had in all things science. More...
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