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Our career based articles offer you focused advice on planning, changing or furthering your career.
Work-Life Balance: How many hours should you work?
The issue of work-life balance in the academic world has become more important in recent years. Employers now recognise that forcing staff to overwork leads to an unhealthy working environment and a high turnover of staff, not to mention...
Rethinking Political Science
On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians are questioning the value of political science as an academic discipline and its relevance to the modern society.
Academic Roles: What does an Admissions Tutor do?
Most academics in permanent positions are asked to take on an extra role within their department inside of the first few years. Depending on the size and structure of the department you may have to do this role indefinitely or for a...
Learning Styles in the Classroom
With technology making ever bigger inroads into the classroom, research being carried out to offer cultural and psychological insights, and theories of creativity and learning abounding, more and more is being discovered about the best...
Career Opportunities in Private Tutoring
Postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers all have the skills necessary to make an excellent private tutor. While it is not possible to teach in state schools in the UK without a PGCE qualification, you can offer your services as...
Statistical overview of staff employed in Higher Education in the UK
You can get an impression of academic staff numbers in the UK by looking at a site like jobs.ac.uk and following trends informally as to who is hiring and in what sort of roles.
Careers with Languages – Translation, interpreting, teaching, and more
A common feeling among graduates of language degree courses is one of uncertainty. Languages is a subject of study often chosen based on personal goals more than career-driven goals.
Five tips to make you more employable this year
Although officially the UK is out of recession, it’s still a difficult time for those in the academic job market. Some universities are still threatening redundancies while others have hiring freezes in place.
How to fit your research around other activities
Finding time to complete research projects is an ever-present challenge for academics with full time posts as well as temporary lecturers.
Challenges in Overseas Student Recruitment
It may be mid-way through the current academic year for many universities across the globe, but in the boom-and-bust world of international student recruitment, everyday brings new and unpredictable challenges.
How green is your university?
It is important for jobseekers to be aware of the latest concerns within the higher education sector. One of the most important issues at the moment is environmental sustainability.
Brain Based Learning – A new approach
We’ve all heard of the myriad ways that people learn, what the philosophers have called epistemology (the theory of knowledge and learning).
Skills needed to present a paper at an academic conference
If you are starting out on a postgraduate degree or hoping to break into the academic career market after working elsewhere you may have never attended an academic conference.
Careers Fairs
If you’re looking for a new job or if you want to start a postgraduate course visiting a Careers Fair is a step in the right direction. There are several good reasons for this.
University Funding Crisis: How could it affect you?
The university sector in the UK has started 2010 in a difficult state with the Chancellor announcing just before Christmas that universities will have to shave a further £600 million off their budgets in order to make public sector...
Why Personal Development Planning (PDP) Matters
At a recent meeting with students from various departments at a Midlands-based university, a senior lecturer wanted to know if the students had been using used Personal Development Planning (PDP). None had, and only one student had even...
Where can I find the best careers advice?
If you are browsing the jobs.ac.uk Career Development site it is safe to assume that you have come online looking for careers advice. This article is designed to review a number of different options for finding information about changing...
Working in Higher Education FAQ
University students often fail to realize that it requires an enormous number of employees working in a huge range of jobs to enable a Higher Education institution to function.
Pros and Cons: Using a professional CV writing company
If you are struggling to write your CV and decide to look online for help you will come across the websites and adverts of a number of professional CV writing companies.
Probation
You’ve been offered a job and have accepted it. Your contract of employment has been prepared and you are ready to start work.
