Why be bothered with a university education?
The distinction between university education and other post-school education can be hard to grasp. Many emotional arguments are advanced. “We only need a handful of people who speak Latin” is one...
View ArticleWhat is it like to study at uni and work with a famous Professor?
There are all sorts of jobs in this world that I call invisible jobs. You can walk along the High Street and not see them. And indeed, sometimes you can see some a job but not see what people do in...
View ArticleSee the financial crisis as a chess game with 4 pieces
Since the Northern Rock crash, when was it, 2007? I’ve been using the Kubler Ross Grief Cycle to track where we are in dealing with the financial crisis. Kubler Ross Grief Cycle and the Financial...
View Article10 questions to get ready for moving past the financial crisis
In my rough-and-ready barometer of where we are in dealing with the financial crisis, I note that #occupylsx has got people talking. That’s great. Instead of mumbling into our beer, we are talking....
View ArticleCoding in schools? Take the splinter from our eye perhaps?
As I wait for FTP to download a website from a server onto my laptop, I thought I would write a bit. I was up late last night, probably unwisely, as I tried to fix odd errors on my online shop. One...
View ArticleBaffled by bankers’ bonuses? Read agency theory
I am writing this post, as is my wont, to record some notes from a paper I read: Azevado, R.E and Akdere, M. (2011). Examining Agency Theory in Training and Development: Understanding Self-Interest...
View ArticleSome people talk such guff about education
People talk such guff about education. In brief, you want an organized map of the field, a reason to want to explore the map, money and time to put into the effort, and someone patient enough to guide...
View ArticleHow to write a good job advert (1/3)
Recently, some academics complained to the big academic job board, www.jobs.ac.uk, that an advertisement for a lectureship contained exactly one sentence that was useful to the job applicants. We...
View ArticleHow to manage the recruitment process (2/3)
In the academic world, it is the norm to give a contact number of the future line manager who is expected to take calls and talk around the job. It is amazing how often, though, said contact person is...
View ArticleLearning to recruit better (3/3)
The project cycle in recruitment is amazingly long. A job opens up, documents are drawn up and approved, advertisements go out. We rarely have a chance to change the process while it is in mid-flow;...
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