Stay-at-home moms look after the kids when their husbands are busy hustling. These moms keep the family in unison, but many are not ready to give up on their dreams by staying idle at home. There were over ten million stay-at-home moms in 2015, according to a study. Most had personal reasons why they chose […] … learn more→
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Check for the passive voice
Passive voice. Put simply, the active voice is when the actor, the person doing the action, is named. The writer does not name the actor when using passive voice. Ironically, the first sentence above does not name the actor – it is as if action of writing in the active voice just magically happens. However, […] … learn more→
Teaching university students to be ‘age-conscious’ could help address our elder care crisis
How does systemic ageism affect our society? A coroner’s inquest into COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes in Québec recently heard that ageism was a contributing factor. This is one of many recent examples of the ways ageism is entrenched into our institutional and social structures, and negatively impacts people and systems. The pandemic brought the critical […] … learn more→
Entrepreneurship classes aren’t just for business majors
Colleges are returning to normal operations, and many have begun to offer in-person classes once again. But are they prepared to teach students how to navigate post-pandemic life? Or how to get a job in an economy fundamentally changed by COVID-19? As professors of engineering and entrepreneurship, and authors of a new book on teaching entrepreneurial thinking to college […] … learn more→
Want to take an online course? Here are 4 tips to make sure you get the most out of it for your career
The “Great Resignation” has left a lot of people with time on their hands. And while this time may be a welcome respite from the daily grind, most folks will need to get back to work eventually. For many, this period is a time of reflection and a chance to pursue a new career. But […] … learn more→
Bridging programs transform students’ lives – they even go on to outperform others at uni
“I remember how hard the words hit me – ‘you’re not smart enough’.” Dylan, a proud Bundjalung man in his 30s from northern New South Wales with South Sea Island heritage, shared with us what high school staff had told him during year 12. “My childhood dream was crushed. My grades were terrible and my […] … learn more→
The university we want to respond to the demands of society
For several years now, there have been profound social, economic and cultural changes that have affected the entire university system, both in its dimension as the main producer of science, technology and culture, as well as in its educational vocation and professional training. The pandemic and the set of measures of all kinds and nature devised […] … learn more→
The disappearing writer – a redrafting strategy
Academic writers often lose themselves when writing about literatures. It is easier to be textually confident when writing about what you did yourself than to summarise, synthesise and assess other people’s texts. Particularly if those texts are produced by more experienced and well regarded writers. It is even more tricky to put your analysis of […] … learn more→
Being in a class with high achievers improves students’ test scores. We tried to find out why
Who you go to school with matters. Almost all of us, as children or parents of children, have felt the influence of good, and bad, classmates at school. There is a large body of research showing better peers can help increase a child’s test scores. But much less is known about how these peer effects actually take place between […] … learn more→
Students’ choice of university has no effect on new graduate pay, and a small impact later on. What they study matters more
Every year in Australia school leavers suffer ATAR anxiety, worrying about whether they will get into their preferred course and university. New research by the Commonwealth Department of Education, using Australian Taxation Office earnings data, examines in detail how much difference what a person studies, and where, makes to their future income. It finds students’ course choices […] … learn more→
