On October 25, a spelling refresher company published an Ipsos survey on employers’ expectations with regard to employee skills. The questions were oriented towards the importance given to the mastery of the French language in a professional context. And unsurprisingly , employers say they are very sensitive to the issue of spelling both at the time of recruitment and with regard […] … learn more→

Female academics continue to be underrepresented in senior academic positions in Australia and internationally. Most research has focused on the low number of women professors at universities. But the largest drop-off in the number of female academics is between two mid-level positions: lecturer and senior lecturer. We set out to find why this occurs, using a new method to explore the career journeys of […] … learn more→

The University of Florida barred three of its professors from serving as paid experts in a Florida voting rights case – sparking outrage within academia and in the news media. The university said allowing its professors to testify against the state was at odds with its interests. Critics say the move puts politics ahead of academic freedom. Here, George Justice, an English […] … learn more→

“Human beings only use 10% of our brain.” “The brain of adults does not change.” “The reptilian brain is the one that governs the behavior of children.” “A person is more intelligent the more neurons he has.” Who among us has not ever heard these statements? And yet they are false. These are misinterpretations about the brain (” neuromyths “) that often permeate the […] … learn more→

Parents can watch their kids draw and paint at home or perform in school music concerts and dance recitals. But they may not know how their school arts program compares with others around the country. As a music education professor and a researcher who studies arts education policies, I know that access to and the quality […] … learn more→

Critical thinking constitutes one of the basic competences of the social educator, something fundamental for their good work and good being. It is a learned skill. Therefore, it requires time and dedication for it to form an inherent and habitual part of the repertoire of behaviors of the social educator. Because its function is to propose possibilities to […] … learn more→

Many people approach revising as if it is a single shot process. They tell themselves, “I’m just going to sit down now and revise my paper”. But revising and refining a text are not one activity, they are several. The writer who thinks that revision is a onesie could be setting themselves up to feel […] … learn more→

Is it possible to use a novel written more than 200 years ago as a resource for teaching science? Obviously, our answer is yes. And is it possible to do educational innovation with this same novel? If it is. More than two centuries after its first edition, the novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus , by Mary Shelley , continues to be extremely […] … learn more→

Every year instructors carefully plan what they’re going to teach during the semester. Then something significant happens that makes us pause and we have to resist the temptation to teach what was planned for the next day. The perfect storm was created over the past two weekends at Queen’s University, with large student gatherings during homecoming […] … learn more→

In mid October, the New South Wales government’s top bureaucrats urged new Premier Dominic Perrottet to push for “an aggressive resumption of immigration levels” to spur post-pandemic economic recovery. Industry seized on this as the answer to skills shortages that have resulted from Australia’s border closures. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry called for a near doubling of […] … learn more→