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Rose Casey
ARoseCasey
Okay. I actually cannot do this. I simply cannot teach while parenting 24/7 entirely on my own.Genuine question: what should employers, specifically universities, be doing to mitigate these literally impossible
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surya.9.8
suryajai20
Dear @mkstalin , 3 weeks ago anna university published an improper result. In that only 30% of the students have passed and the remaining 70%, many of them have failed
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Gail Davies
gailfdavies
It's summer, so the UK academic promotion notices are appearing. (Congrats all!) But, can we have a word about some changes in referee forms? I've always done quite a few
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Jana Bacevic
jana_bacevic
On a slightly more serious and elaborate note now: the 'back-to-classroom' conundrum in UK universities shows full well all the limits&weaknesses of 'markets' as vehicles of coordination 1/ one of
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FlashAcademy
Flashacademy1
Top 10 Countries Offering Free Education to International Students as of 2020A thread https://www.flashschoolgist.com/top-10-countries-offering-free-education-to-international-students/ Pursuing studies in another country is an experience
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Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley
lottelydia
I think myself lucky to have a permanent job & earn a comfortable wage. Many people in academia are constantly searching for the next contract, living on tiny wages, working
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Prof Fiona de Londras
fdelond
This is awful and I just can't understad how we have come to this, but I have some thoughts...https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/24/thousands-of-students-in-isolation-at-20-uk-universities First the obvious bit: the universi
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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia
wmnjoya
Imagine you're a British civil servant in the colonial government. When you were a child, you were plucked you from the house and sent to boarding school. Your humanity was
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UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge
UnisNotBorders
Shameful that @openDemocracy allowed for the deeply Sinophobic, racist & xenophobic article to be published written by @BillSpence1 former vice-provost @QMUL who claims in Trumpian logic that UK academic freedom
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Terence Renaud
terry_renaud
rumors are trickling down at both Yale & Harvard that they might delay the start of next semester, basically offsetting AY2020-21 so that the fall semester would take place in
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bean
christapeterso
ADHD is probably the most common disability universities need to accommodate, & they mostly just don't. 1 student after another falls on the same problems, bc of the same core
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Lisa Duggan
TheFunFury
Read all parts of the interview in this thread—it’s a bracing prediction of massive disruption in higher ed:https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1263849630896250882 Here is the article that the interview is based on:https://nymag.com
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Olayemi Adeniran
ProfdotOlayemi
THREAD 1: MPH concentrationsI will start with the various concentrations (area of specialization) in MPH and link it with the job prospects after graduation. You must choose one when applying
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elizabeta ugarska
enchanteeq
Despite popular opinion, the Catholic Church was the beacon of morality and human rights for most of history. During the Middle Ages, the Church was the only thing keeping literacy
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Torr Leonard
torrHL
“University officials said vastly smaller crowds — often 20 or 25% of normal seating — would make in-stadium social distancing a possibility while also easing strains at the times that
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Mikaila
mmlarthur
@BrownUniversity prez wrote an irresponsible & ill-informed OpEd in @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-colleges-universities.html & here’s my take: this OpEd shows she does not take the lives or futures of her stu
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