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Category Archives: CV Tips
Setting exams: as tough as taking them?
Exam Questions invented: 40 (for two different courses) Advice from colleagues: priceless! This is the time of year when many academics turn their attention to exams. While that season is blissfully distant for unsuspecting students, we are slaving away trying … Read More
Its [sic] a typo!
Did you see my deliberate error in the title there? Moving on from last week’s blog I thought I would address the question of how we as higher education practitioners react to our students’ ability to write good, proper, accurate … Read More
Career building while at the coal-face
I have just looked at my jobs.ac.uk wall-planner and realised that I’ve been in my new job for 6 weeks now! My feet have hardly touched the ground what with meeting new colleagues, writing lectures, helping students and completing administrative … Read More
Conference…part 2
One of the most exciting things about the conference I attended in Virginia was that I had the opportunity to visit the site of the first settlement at Jamestown. To the non-historians among you this may not mean very much, … Read More
Last Day of the Holidays
Jobs applied for: 1 Body parts being kept crossed: everything available! Hours spent trying to fill in the application form: too many to mention. With the unseasonable weather we are having here in the UK, it seems a shame to … Read More
Easter Holidays
jobs applied for: 2 rejection letters: 2 essays marked: 50 9am Despite it being the Easter Holidays and one of those allegedly quiet periods in a lecturer’s life, I am already in front of the computer. With the advent of … Read More
