-
-
Please suggest topics or questions that you would like us to cover in this blog. We would also love to hear from you if you would like to blog for us.
-
Please suggest topics or questions that you would like us to cover in this blog. We would also love to hear from you if you would like to blog for us.
-
Category Archives: Academic Life
Funding challenges in the arts
I think everyone in the Higher Education sector is aware that funding cuts will affect our research and teaching experience over the next few years. So how can we go about trying to protect our ability to research in the … Read More
Tagged: funding, Research
Leave a comment
Employability: a key concept for you and your students
The employability agenda is firmly placed in the UK university system now. It argues that universities have a responsibility to prepare young people for the world of work as well as imparting subject knowledge. Some scholars are resistant to this … Read More
How to end your career!
In the UK this week there has been a lot of discussion of pensions in the university sector and some lecturers are planning strike action to defend their existing pension schemes. That, along with a fascinating article in Chronicle by … Read More
Tagged: career end, retirement
2 Comments
Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
Every HE professor, lecturer and tutor has to deal with the issue of plagiarism at some point in his or her career and so it is worth working out early on in your career the best ways to help your … Read More
Tagged: plagiarism, teaching methods
Leave a comment
Building a portfolio academic career
This time of the year I am always contacted by the International Baccalaureate Organisation and the AQA examining board asking me if I’d like to do some summer marking for their history qualifications. This is a reminder of the days … Read More
Tagged: exam marking, portfolio careers
Leave a comment
Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
We all know that the employment situation in the university sector is challenging at the moment, and that the number of PhD students coming through the system does not equate to the the jobs available for them, so is it … Read More
Balancing research and teaching
This is our ‘reading week’, which is what our university calls half term. It means that we have a week off from our teaching commitments, but every other duty such as meeting attendance and research or writing has to be … Read More
