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The students’ movement has stretched South Africans in personal, professional, powerful and provocative ways. Have academics been stretched enough to reflect deeply on the status quo at universities?
Africa needs to develop a new generation of academics to drive the continent’s teaching, learning, research and critical thinking into the future.
A new study shows that academics in regional universities are more likely to experience bullying than their city peers.
Could targeted, specific leadership development help university deans become the kinds of managers South African universities need?
Shouting past each other via different kinds of media isn’t going to help researchers – from éminences grises to new postdocs – effectively work together on issues in the field of science.
There is more to drawing diaspora academics back to their home countries in Africa than striking up individual relationships. Infrastructure must be fixed and institutional management must improve.
There is a powerful African- born diaspora in North America and its members have much to offer their home continent. How should this relationship be crafted?
Higher education institutions that only hire academics from their own backyards simply cannot compete in this era of the global university.
Academics are on the frontline, battling the Home Office over new visa regulations.
Reading bullet points off a screen doesn’t teach anyone anything.
The pathway to academic success is not always about the number of papers you’ve published. Some have found that a sense of humour can be just as useful.
A warning from a group of PhD students about the path universities are on.
In his anthemic Let me entertain you, Robbie Williams urges his audience to “come and sing a different song”. University lecturers could take a lesson or two from Stoke-on-Trent’s favourite singer-songwriter…
“Life is a losing proposition,” explains Mark Wahlberg’s literature professor/compulsive gambler Jim Bennett. “You might as well get it over with.” Intent on doing just that, Bennett runs up massive debts…
Bringing together great academic minds and diverse perspectives from different disciplines can transform university research. A recent project at Durham University called “Hearing the Voice” challenges…
I recently had the opportunity to join the academic processional at my friend’s graduation. What was funny about this was that although I’m a member of staff, my own PhD is still under examination, so…
Thankfully, nobody speaks academic English as a first language. The English of the university is a very particular form that has specific features and conventions. Sometimes, this is just referred to as…
It’s not easy for Australians to become famous in Russia. It would seem harder still to become a figure of loathing in Russian print and online media. But Associate Professor Timothy Lynch, who teaches…
Corporations are involved in every area of our lives. In our education, health, welfare and criminal justice systems, they are ever-present. So obvious is this “fact” of life that it is often only in moments…
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