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Author Archives: Athene Donald
What Price Work Experience?
What do students know about life beyond academia? I touched on this in my last post, and this week two reports have been published which are relevant to this theme and the overall ‘student experience’, loosely interpreted. Vitae published a … Continue reading
What Next and How to Get There
Last week I visited Edinburgh University to participate in their inaugural ‘Innovative Learning Week’. Whilst many universities, though not my own, have study weeks or mid-term breaks, I haven’t come across the idea of teaching a different kind of teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Science Culture
Tagged advice, CV, job interviews, Research Concordat
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Quotas, Good and Bad
I have always felt that the idea of quotas – for increasing the number of women on FTSE100 Boards, for instance – is a bad idea because it implies women need help in order to get themselves into positions of … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged appointment committees, EU, Nicole Dewandre, positive action, positive discrimination
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On Geeks and Humanity
There has been a fair amount of self-disclosure on OT blogs in the last couple of weeks. Most recently fellow blogger Cromercrox described his painful battle with depression; over the past couple of weeks on my own blog many people … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education
Tagged Alice Roberts, critical thinking, dweebs, geeks, George Monbiot, Gerald Warner
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