Monthly Archives: August 2008

Higher Education Teaching Certification

I have been thinking of the merits and demerits of a university course on academic and professional practice which I have been doing. Having worked as a seminar tutor, teaching assistant and instructor at various places, I was not sure … Read More »

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Putting Things into Perspective

(The photograph is taken from http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/) Just when one starts to take degrees and careers too seriously one realizes that there are more important things: life itself, for instance! Lance Fortnow has an entry about Randy Pausch who passed away … Read More »

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Academic Posters

Posters are required for workshops, conferences and orientation events. Especially for young researchers, posters can be useful to promote their research and gain experience. As Paul Goldberg points out, it is easier to learn about a person’s work at a … Read More »

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Thesis Writing: Benefits of Latex

Thesis writing can be a hard task. One concern is to present the work in a professional and consistent format. For this purpose, one cannot help praising the Latex type setting software which is widely used in the mathematical and … Read More »

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Academic Writing

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality … Read More »

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