Managing an academic job search is often said to be a full-time job all on its own. To be sure, it’s a time-consuming process but there are some simple tools you can use to save time and stay organized. Here are three that I’ve found particularly useful. Evernote Plenty of scholars already use Evernote as […] … learn more→

Today marks the beginning of the 8th Open Access (OA) week, a global event to highlight all things open access. It also marks three years since the Australasian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) – a coalition of nine Australian universities and now the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) – came in to existence […] … learn more→

Forgiving skyrocketing student debt won\’t solve the real problem, which is the soaring costs imposed by a cartel that is failing to prepare students for the economy of tomorrow. Everyone understands soaring student debt is a problem: burdened with $1.3 trillion in student loans, young people are unable to start businesses, buy homes and start […] … learn more→

Students have come back to college. But not all to the United States. The idea that a student would study in another country is not a new concept. The media frequently reports on the number of international students studying in the United States. And that is exactly how we tend to think about it – […] … learn more→

A story in The Australian on the employment of teaching graduates and quality of teacher education programs implies there is a crisis in teacher education when there is not. Australian higher education institutions produce teachers of high quality. I am frequently contacted by international teaching agencies because they recognise that Australian teachers are adaptable and […] … learn more→

Across the country, an untouchable caste of administrators is bent on plundering our institutions of higher education, grabbing every penny while everyone else involved in the institution looks on in despair. The gentle reader might believe I overuse the word “untouchable,” but I want to once again demonstrate it really is the most accurate word […] … learn more→

For six years, Volkswagen cars programmatically cheated emissions tests to appear “clean” under scrutiny, and polluting 40 times as much otherwise. This deceptive code was built into vehicle software to skirt regulations algorithmically, and naturally, the scandal has left the company in hot water. As cars and other objects get smarter, the downsides of intelligent […] … learn more→

The importance of higher education is hard to overstate. Going to college enables individuals to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities they can leverage to improve their economic prospects and their quality of life. These benefits extend beyond the individual to communities, as college graduates tend to be more civic-minded, and are more likely to […] … learn more→

Think seating charts in the classroom are needed only in elementary school? According to a new study, randomly assigned seats are also the most immediate way to prevent cheating among college students. The study was set in an introductory science course at an unnamed \”top American university\” in 2012, as 242 students prepared to take […] … learn more→