October 2009
19 posts
Make Time For Time: 2. Personal Strengths &... →
Make Time for Time: 1. Introduction →
Five mistakes to beat…before they beat you →
Advice Needs to Mean Something. Advice needs to have the possibility of being...
– Scott H Young, Why I Hate Self-Help Platitudes
Students: Stand Up to Climate Change! →
Taylor Garrett describes how coal power works and explains that everything we buy and use has some cost to the environment.
we cannot claim to be fulfilling our responsibility to develop graduates capable...
– Mary Malcolm at University of Abertay Dundee on nurturing critical minds.
No one has ever told [students] that study at undergraduate level is basically a...
– Brandon Robshaw explains that plagiarism would happen less if students realised how good it is to reference and quote from other sources. From The Independent, 15 October 2009
A single-bedroom London flat with no bath and a cupboard-sized kitchen is being...
– From Times Higher Education, 15 October 2009
Should recycling be part of your everyday routine? →
Why even your independence goes through a... →
Universities are going to have to reconsider the whole function of HE, how we...
– Malcolm Grant, president and provost of UCL, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.
Create a good impression in a presentation →
Students at the University of Quebec in Montreal do a great job of creating a one-take video to the Black Eyed Peas song, “I Gotta Feeling”.
Create Your Own Luck →
Academia and Web 2.0: More work needed?
An article in Research Information suggests that academia hasn’t taken hold of the opportunities available from Web 2.0 tools (social network sites, blogging, wikis, and so on):
“Unfortunately there are few signs that academics are really embracing the new opportunities offered by Web 2.0. Many academics’ idea of online collaboration is still emailing the findings they have arrived...
Make your work rock and get your creative juices... →
Get ahead and become futureproof →
The National Union of Students’ vice president for higher education, Aaron...
– From BBC report on universities being warned against “complacency” over standards.
PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that for every £1 spent by the Arts and...
– Ann Mroz in the Times Higher Education Leader piece (1 October 2009).