As research students, we aim to advance our disciplines through rigorous research and intense focus on our studies. At the same time we are all too often full of anxiety and uncertainty that keep us from achieving our best. Even though other students among our friends provide support, the amount of inherent competition among research […] … learn more→
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Disconnected: Can universities surpass brand image to make their social media relevant?
Universities fail to exploit social media’s most compelling features, tending to broadcast their brands instead of engaging students and the public online, new research suggests. Visualise this: smiling students and successful faculty. In the background, beautiful buildings framed by blue skies. These are the ways that Canadian universities choose to represent themselves on social media. […] … learn more→
You’re so vague…
It is important when writing about research to be specific. And by writing about research I mean writing about methods in a journal article, writing methods in a thesis or journal article, writing about research design in a research bid. See what I did there? Specific, not vague. Now I’m guessing you do know that examiners […] … learn more→
Colleges and Universities, bad news, and the media
Over the past two years, my university, Wright State, has been producing negative news stories with remarkable regularity. Our enrollment, which had been gradually increasing has dipped somewhat, and because we are in the midst of a largely self-created budget mess, any decline in enrollment makes the budget issues worse and the number of positions […] … learn more→
Jisc futures: the digital revolution and the future of science
Information and knowledge have always been essential drivers of social progress, and the technologies through which knowledge is acquired, stored and communicated have been determinants of the nature and scale of their impact. A technological milestone was passed at the turn of the millennium when the global volume of data and information that was stored […] … learn more→
Left bans scientist who Discovered DNA
“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→
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→
