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Tag Archives: human contact
View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
Over the next few blogs I will seek to provide an overview of the educational climate in India, and the extent to which international alliances are changing or are likely to change the university experience .
Why are British universities seeking to find a presence in India?
The Indian government has plans to increase the number of university goers from a current 12 per cent of the population to 30 per cent. In plain terms this works out to a present university student population of 12 million, and a projected increase to 30 million.
I want to present a side to the global impact of the ongoing changes in the Indian university system that is seldom seen in the media.
That is, what is the university experience in India from the point of view of the student and the lecturer?
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?
Is your department or university considering a move East? Read More
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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Research and Teaching: the Stretch
In this post I want to talk about the relationship between your research and your teaching.
Be flexible and be open to the opportunities around you – don’t shy away because you think it’s not what you trained to do. Let your research self breathe and your teaching self too – they need to not be frozen into one place and one time in an infinite universe. Read More
Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
Professor Adrian Holliday is the Head of the Graduate School at Canterbury Christ Church University and also Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and Language Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. It is an enormous pleasure to welcome him to this blog.
A wider view of Adrian’s teaching, research and publication profile can be found on his homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/adrianholliday42/
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Let’s Talk: Getting Published
To begin this first blog I would like to say a few things about who I am, why I write these posts and who I hope they will reach and find a response from. I am a humanities scholar writing for and looking forward to hearing from, anyone who is involved in considering the present shape and the future of humanities scholarship.
In practical terms the need to publish seems to me the most pressing issue for scholars who, like me, have recently completed their doctoral work. Read More
