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Eight tips to sail through your science or engineering PhD
One-third of people who start a PhD don’t finish within 10 years. Don’t be one of them.
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Administration calls. Should you answer?
The pros and cons of taking on admin roles in different stages of your career
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Preparing for flexible career paths in academia and beyond
A new open education resource helps train grad students for professional life outside the academy.
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Public engagement: duty or detriment?
Should speaking on topics of public concern be part and parcel of academic life?
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Meet Kevin McCormick, Founding President of the Canadian Institute for Human Rights and Global Health
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Are you ‘overteaching’?
More technology, quizzes, games and discussion boards in a class don’t necessarily lead to better teaching – they can lead to burnout for both professors and students.
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The ‘End of the English Major’ misses the point
English departments will continue to matter if they remain places where students’ ideas are considered.
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I’m not afraid of ChatGPT in my classroom
All of my students use ChatGPT, but the grade distribution remains the same.
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The benefits of training attention
Universities need to take an active role in cultivating this fundamental tool for student learning.
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How a community fridge is feeding students in more ways than one
Sustainability projects like this at McMaster help to meet campus needs and provide valuable opportunities for students to put theory – and their passions – into practice.
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Making the transition from bench science to remote work
Quitting my postdoc position has taken me on an incredibly rewarding global adventure requiring flexibility and adaptation.
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The future is green. Will your students be ready?
The drive towards automation and away from a greenhouse gas-emitting economy is demanding new and evolving skills from Canada’s workforce, a report shows.
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How can undergraduate degrees meet the demands of the workforce?
Injecting programs with interdisciplinarity can foster coveted skills in communication, collaboration, problem-solving and leadership.
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Alone or with others?
What place should be given to teamwork in university education? Reflections on a teaching practice that relies on collaboration and solidarity as essential vectors of learning.
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5 things to think about before getting into the world of science policy-making
A panel of academics offers a few caveats for scientists to consider before jumping into public policy-making.
