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Improving the treatment of PhD students
In a fascinating article in this week’s Chronicle, Leonard Cassuto explores how universities treat their postgraduate students. You can read the whole article here. A few respondents to this blog have...
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Balancing research and teaching
This is our ‘reading week’, which is what our university calls half term. It means that we have a week off from our teaching commitments, but every other duty such as meeting attendance and research or...
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Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
We all know that the employment situation in the university sector is challenging at the moment, and that the number of PhD students coming through the system does not equate to the the jobs available...
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Building a portfolio academic career
This time of the year I am always contacted by the International Baccalaureate Organisation and the AQA examining board asking me if I’d like to do some summer marking for their history qualifications....
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Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
Every HE professor, lecturer and tutor has to deal with the issue of plagiarism at some point in his or her career and so it is worth working out early on in your career the best ways to help your...
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How to end your career!
In the UK this week there has been a lot of discussion of pensions in the university sector and some lecturers are planning strike action to defend their existing pension schemes. That, along with a...
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Private tutoring opportunities
Like university students, school children are also beginning to panic at this time of year as exams approach. If you are a PhD student or recently finished post-doc struggling to pay the bills...
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End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
It’s coming up to the end of my fourth year working in the history department at MMU and I can’t believe where the time has gone! They say that ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ and that is certainly...
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Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
As I have written before, there are people whom I came to know during the course of my PhD who left a lasting impression on me. I thought it would be nice to catch up with one or two of them,...
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Falling Towards Apotheosis
I’ve recently become involved, as an RA, in two College Improvement Projects at the University, and they’ve given me something of an insight into the structures and projects that make academia work,...
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