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Category Archives: Teaching
Improving the treatment of PhD students
In a fascinating article in this week’s Chronicle, Leonard Cassuto explores how universities treat their postgraduate students. You can read the whole article here. A few respondents to this blog have also highlighted the precarious position of doctoral students in … Read More
Tagged: career development, PhD experience
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Teaching postgraduates: a new career step
This week I am starting to teach my ten week MA module on Atlantic History, a significant milestone in my career progression and definitely something to add to my CV. So, why is this experience so important?
Working from home: can you do it?
Here in the UK we have had an especially cold winter so far and, for many people, getting into work has been a real challenge. More people live some distance from their workplace now than ever before, and this is … Read More
Marking and improving your time management
One of the most important jobs a lecturer has to do is to mark their students’ work and give constructive feedback to help them improve. Many academics dislike marking but there are ways to make this part of the job … Read More
Tagged: marking, time management, work pressure
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Funding change: what could it mean for academic jobs?
This week the big news in UK Higher Education is that universities will be free to charge up to £9000 per year for their courses from 2012 onwards (nearly three times higher than the current figure). What will this mean … Read More
Tagged: admissions, fees, student numbers
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Reading week: another name for half-term?
It’s reading week and so we don’t have to teach any lectures or seminars and, in theory at least, the students are using the time to diligently prepare their assignments! But what should diligent lecturers be doing?
Advantages and disadvantages of 'portfolio careers'
The challenges of having several jobs in order to pay the bills seem a distant memory to me now, but increasingly young academics starting out in their career know that they face several years of this before securing a permanent … Read More
