#Academic

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eenhanas_finest

in 2016, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) proposed mandatory audit firm rotation (MAFR) in SA. aims: break market concentration, pursue economic transformation & enhance auditor independence (objectivity).this is

Farooq Tirmizi

FarooqTirmizi

Dear Pakistani secular liberals, you've got to get better at political coalition building. You know else doesn't trust the government to teach their children religion in schools? Very religious parents.

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s13GES

Brief thread on a Tweet by a pro-Brexit academic who seems to think that migrating from a third country to EU countries means just completing few more forms. That's utter

Amy Gaeta

GaetaAmy

Earnest question for people working in academia: What positive things would you say about joining academia in general right now? I was speaking with a new grad student today, and

Bernardo Soares

maaynaque

Ok. Here's Part-1 of the grad school application thread where I talk about the first step of shortlisting universities and professors, and writing your first email to them. This is

Mack 🏳️‍🌈

lookingglassego

Maybe it is just my journalism background, but you should really be writing important things at a 5th grad reading level. If people who didn’t graduate high school cannot understand

William Samoei Ruto, PhD

WilliamsRuto

We are heartbroken by the passing away of Prof Ken Walibora Waliaula. He was an outstanding academic, ingenious author and a prolific journalist with a charming personality and humour. Prof

Trent Telenko

TrentTelenko

One of the crying shames of academic WW2 history is it's unwillingness to address what we now call electronic warfare.The Ham radio community is both different & far more useful.See:German

Conor Duffy

conorduffynews

Today's #highered #auspol inquiry into foreign interference diminishes a very important issue and brings it into the realm of culture war territory that is damaging to Australia's national interests. While

Emily Hudson

DrEmilyHudson

A thread on the fair dealing analysis in York v Access Copyright (2020, Federal Court of Appeal, Canada). Some of this draws from material in my book, Drafting Copyright Exceptions.

Grace Blakeley

graceblakeley

Whereas sitting back in your cushy academic job and tweeting about naive everyone else is while the left fragments is obviously the right good and smart thing to do.https://twitter.com/pmpoc/status/1247667836660715521 ‘Doing

Laura Robinson

LauraRbnsn

A good 60 percent of being a female academic on Twitter is saying something and then someone rolls up and says “look it’s understandable you don’t know much about your

Sarah Naas

sarah10beth

While the current state of college athletics is very up in the air, I cannot help but think about what this means for everyone involved. I have seen A LOT

Kaitlin Blanchard

abarfulstrife

I have now had the experience, in several settings, of being deeply uncomfortable when securely employed academics make the joke that the vaccine is a good excuse to take a

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josiahwsutton

I think the attempt to seem fair and balanced in academic history has resulted in a lot of really boring writing. I am all about going back to histories that

Dr Kay Guccione

kayguccione

Mentoring works best as a partnership with a bit of ‘professional distance’ ie not your supervisor/PI or dept colleagues. How easy is if for you to access a good quality