In the UK system, the majority of PhD students pass their viva ‘with minor corrections’. Your examiners present you with a list of corrections, you go away and implement them. Easy, yes? Well, no, not necessarily. If you’re lucky, corrections are simply typos, formatting issues etc. So far, so good. Any thesis will inevitably contain […] … learn more→

“This site cannot be reached” is, maybe, the most frequent error that Google Chrome, Opera (and some other Chromium-based browsers) can face. It appears with the following explanations «server DNS address could not be found» and «Server IP address could not be found» and ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED code. The error has nothing to do with the version […] … learn more→

If there’s one thing that seems to dog many academics’ lives, it’s the inability to say ‘no’. We often find ourselves over-committed and frazzled with deadlines…and it can be a frenzy of our own making. I’m not talking here about being given inappropriate workloads or sky-high benchmarks to be met. These are larger structural and […] … learn more→

Generation Z is made up of those born between 1997 and 2012. They are the digital kids that have been raised with a device in their hand and a screen in their face, however, don’t discount this generation as an over obsessed bunch of tech addicts. Generation Z is proving to be a generation that gets the […] … learn more→

When schoolteachers in Los Angeles went on a weeklong strike in January, the head of the local teachers union described it as a “battle for the soul of public education.” When Denver public school teachers went on a three-day strike in February, they did it in the name of “schools Denver students deserve.” When teachers began their […] … learn more→

Gloom and doom reports have always been around. I can find “new reports” of the dollar becoming worthless from the turn of the century…and similar reports from last week. Sooner or later they’ll be right, I suppose. Even a tiny rise in my tumor markers can presage the final run of cancer through my body…and […] … learn more→

A number of students in Quebec Canada at the end of November last year demanded that the internship be paid. Do they have a point? Some people consider unpaid internships to be a good thing, especially those who have benefited from the internship contract. While some others emphasize that there is forgetting the issue of injustice if we consider […] … learn more→

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., recently reintroduced their Child Care for Working Families Act – a bill they say will “ensure affordable, high-quality child care for working middle class families and those living paycheck to paycheck.” Taryn Morrissey, author of “Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality,” and […] … learn more→

I concede that, as a “math person,” I don’t see the world the same way as most folks. The Gender Studies people I’d see on campus, always yelling about something, would get a shrug from me. “I favor reason,” I’d think to myself, “but maybe raw emotion is worth something in academia.” I’d give the […] … learn more→

Women face many barriers when it comes to post-secondary education, and this is especially true in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as in traditionally male-dominated trades like welding. These barriers are even higher for mature female students — those who are at least 24 years old — who are often discriminated against when […] … learn more→