It is commonly assumed that junior (pre-tenure) professors work much harder and have lower levels of job satisfaction than their more senior (tenured) peers. A new study of Canadian university…
READ MORE…of communication). These commitments were necessarily embodied in live practice in the classroom. Know-how compromised online The modern research university, since the late 19th century, has tended to prioritize “knowing-that”…
READ MORE…was the bursting of the sub-prime housing bubble in the United States whose immediate consequences were the collapse of major financial institutions and the freezing of credit. The crash brought…
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…response to the growing size and complexity of modern universities is to govern them like private corporations. Efficiency and centralized authority come to replace debate and collegiality as core values….
READ MORE…Universities could have some control of this by gauging the professional capabilities of students that employers consider important. These include teamwork, communication, critical thinking and problem solving. Students complete the…
READ MORE…even harder to compete with them. Only Danish and Irish students spoke about national competitiveness in this way. This is likely to be linked to specific geo-political and economic factors,…
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