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Category Archives: Literature
India and the UK: Joint University Programmes the Way Forward?
The Indian economy like the Chinese economy is expanding. India, like China, is investing heavily in education. New schools and universities are being founded at a steady rate.British universities are looking to these two countries for expansion.
Are we going to see British students no longer simply taking a gap year in India but living and studying there in significant numbers?
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Supervisor and Career Advisor?
A recent (very American) article in The Chronicle Of Higher Education struck an initial chord with me: To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees (September 28, 2011, Karen Kelsky). Karen Kelsky runs an ‘academic-career consulting business’ to help students, basically, get jobs … Read More
Tagged: career building, creative, human contact, publishing, writing
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Reference management and citation software
Back at the start of my first year, a member of Information Services led us through how to use EndNote to collect and manage references and sources, and I could see the joy it could bring to researchers. The amount … Read More
Tagged: application, citation, references, research, software, structure, thesis, writing
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Voices in Fiction part 2
After struggling to find my character’s voice, pretty essential for a first person narrative, I have re-written two substantial chapters, and the writing went fast and easily. The voice is stronger, but whether it’s totally believable I’m still not sure. … Read More
After the Riots: Your Inner Polymath
In my previous post I mentioned the MacTaggart lecture delivered in Edinburgh last week by Eric Schmidt who is the chairman of Google, in the same breath that I expressed my individual questions and distress in response to the rioting we have witnessed so recently.
It may seem strange to link the two things but I hope it will become clear why I am.
As reported in The Guardian last Saturday Mr. Schmidt said, “Over the past century the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.”
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After the Riots
I have written previously on this blog on my resistance to the idea that scholars – or luvvys and boffins to borrow the phrase used by Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google speaking in Edinburgh last week at the annual MacTaggart lecture on the state of higher education in the UK – should be seen as living a life apart. And yet, oddly enough, I was indeed ensconced in a small room in a large building working on ideas – which is to say I was marking my students’ essays- when I first understood the scale of what had happened in the country.
Research and Teaching: the Second Stretch
From amongst a wide circle of friends and colleagues who are both research active and teaching-active – to coin a new phrase – I’d say it’s extremely important to acknowledge that flexibility is both a personal and professional good. A friend who was awarded her doctorate in 2006 found a permanent teaching post within twelve months of completing. Her lectureship was not in History which was her “home” discipline if you like but in Criminology – she was able to develop a subsidiary interest into one which she could use as a foundation for her career. Read More
