“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” –Beria, head of Stalin’s Secret Police Only an idiot could have thought the Left agenda of shutting down Conservative speakers on campus would stop at just those speakers. Having succeeded in making it impossible for a Conservative to show his or her (Hi Ann Coulter!) […] … learn more→
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Should College students be drug tested?
A medication test is a specialized examination of a natural example, for instance pee, hair, blood, breath, sweat, as well as oral liquid/salivation — to decide the nearness or nonappearance of indicated parent drugs or their metabolites. College overseers are accused of guaranteeing a protected, steady, and sound school condition where kids can learn and […] … learn more→
Have-a-go marketers are no heroes
What have professional services staff done to deserve such scorn from academics? Having worked in the marketing department of two well-known British universities over the past eight years, I can honestly say that the vast majority of professional staff treat academics with the respect and reverence their hard work and achievements deserve. We would never […] … learn more→
How you can use your Political Science degree towards making a career in the Government
The common mistake that most students often make is that they think political management is the same as political science. While they can often be parts of the same online masters in political science program and they do have some overlapping similarities, political science and political management are not one in the same. Whatever the […] … learn more→
China tops US and UK as destination for anglophone African students
The surge in the number of African students in China is remarkable. In less than 15 years the African student body has grown 26-fold – from just under 2,000 in 2003 to almost 50,000 in 2015. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the US and UK host around 40,000 African students a year. China […] … learn more→
Turkey bans teaching of evolution – but science is more than a belief system
In the US there have been many attempts to expunge evolution from the school curriculm or demand that creationism – the idea that all life was uniquely created by God – is given equal treatment in science textbooks. While all these have failed, the government in Turkey has now banned evolution from its national curriculum. […] … learn more→
New legislation may make free speech on campus less free
Around the country, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. The Wisconsin State Assembly, for example, recently passed a campus speech bill that would require public colleges and universities to punish students who disrupt campus speakers. The legislation is now heading to the […] … learn more→
Ultra spiritual parody: Higher Education
Ah, it’s summer time, the days when the perpetual deadlines during the semester don’t exist. It also means the insanity slows down a bit, so I have time for less serious things. Ultra Spiritual Life is a series of parody videos by a YouTube user with account name AwakenWithJP. The videos vary from beyond hysterical […] … learn more→
The vagueness problem in academic writing
Dear Readers. Shaun Lehmann, Katherine Firth (of the Research Voodoo blog) and I are currently in the process of writing a new book for Open University Press called ‘Writing Trouble’. The proposed book evolved out of our work on the Thesis Bootcamp program, a writing intervention originally designed by Peta Freestone and Liam Connell. Over […] … learn more→
Modern languages: four reforms to reclaim the future of our discipline
Recent measures taken at a number of UK universities – including cutbacks on modern languages staffing, redundancies and in some cases the closure of courses – show the unprecedented pressures that UK universities are facing (and the serious implications these pressures have for an already embattled modern languages community). Modern languages disciplines can exercise some control […] … learn more→
