tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89916318297300785812024-03-19T15:24:53.678-07:00Education DepartmentEducation organise and manage, support systems and activities that facilitate the effective running of an educational institution.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-31590587349097654952012-09-28T07:21:00.001-07:002012-09-28T07:21:55.863-07:00Types Of Financial Assistance From The Department Of Education
What's the hardest part about obtaining a college degree? Is it passing your subjects? Well, some would possibly think so. Most college students could attest that the most challenging part about getting a college education is, as you may have guessed, paying for your college tuition fees.Every school year, American college students pay at least $20,000 to cover college tuition fees aloneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-47825356745969458492012-09-27T03:01:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:51:17.498-07:00Head suspended after theology school protest
The head of a theology school at a Catholic university college has been suspended after he criticised plans to close his department. Anthony Towey, head of the School of Theology, Philosophy and History at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, was suspended last week "pending investigations into a very serious disciplinary matter", the college has confirmed.
The action follows protests Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-40629039194199083822012-08-22T13:47:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:56:43.531-07:00The bullies of academia and suicide
About 20 bullying victims at one of Australia's leading universities have attempted or considered suicide, an inquiry has been told.
One female academic became so traumatised she tried to kill herself in her campus office, she told the federal parliamentary committee into workplace bullying.
Microbiologist Dr Michelle Adams later told 'The Daily Telegraph' she swallowed "tablets" in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-3576850083611283082012-08-12T08:44:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:54:14.527-07:00Workplace bullying at the University of. Inquiry into workplace bullying, House of Representatives Committees, Australia
Under the Terms of Reference for this Inquiry:
The prevalence of workplace bullying and the experience of victims; and role of workplace cultures in preventing and responding to bullying I wish to draw to your attention:
• the entrenched systematic culture of bullying at the University
• the lack of support from the University following my initial allegation of bullying; and more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-83727636742031016362012-07-16T11:32:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:55:02.603-07:00The Ten Recommended Administrative Measures
1. “Focus on the situation, issue, or behaviour, not the person.”
2. Replace quasi-judicial campus tribunals with administrative decision-making.
3. Unless evidence compels them, avoid forensic words like allegations and charges.
4. Keep the rules clear, fair, and simple; keep policy and procedure manuals short.
5. In the face of demands that a professor be punished, entertain not Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-3292003024234251572012-06-14T03:25:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:57:52.309-07:00Recognising and managing stress in academic life
Several surveys into occupational well-being name academics as one of the most stressed professional groups. Join our live chat, Friday 15 June, to explore how to manage academic stress.
Enter the words "academic stress" into any search engine and most of the articles and resources shared focus on helping students while they are at university. I know full well that higher education canAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-62168378117327677672012-06-13T03:59:00.000-07:002012-09-28T06:59:18.295-07:00The Perception of Postgraduate Students With Regard to Workplace Bullying
The main objective of the study includes the analysis of the experiences of postgraduate students regarding workplace bullying. These postgraduate students are employed in various business industries in South Africa. This study highlights the seriousness of workplace bullying. Actions need to be taken by all parties concerned to ensure that workplace bullying is adequately addressed in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-28779339374932761112012-05-16T22:59:00.000-07:002012-09-28T07:01:30.386-07:00Dismissal threat for metrics letter
Queen Mary, University of London has warned one of its academics that he faces an investigation that potentially could lead to dismissal, after he wrote a letter criticising its metrics-based redundancy programme and two senior managers.
Fanis Missirlis, a lecturer in cell biology, and a colleague put their names to a letter to The Lancet that was published online on 4 May. On 14 May, Dr Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-17062169552895067182012-05-01T12:34:00.000-07:002012-09-28T07:12:14.985-07:00The University of Canberra case tests anti-bullying
James Warden was in the bosom of the University of Canberra. He helped stage its 40th anniversary celebrations, wrangled government money for a new Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage and became its first director.
A year later, Mr Warden was no longer director. Last December, he was gone from the university. The falling out is documented in 17 pages of a statement of claim filed Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-45038963776902776002012-04-17T08:10:00.000-07:002012-09-28T07:08:59.070-07:00Universities’ black and minority ethnic staff still encounter ‘significant disadvantage’
Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
Speaking at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in Leeds on 13 April, Andrew Pilkington, professor of sociology at University of Northampton, said the impact of initiatives to encourage race equality in academic recruitment under the Labour government Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-53348958757655142302012-03-05T10:43:00.000-08:002012-09-28T07:07:46.686-07:00Workplace bullying on the rise at UNSW
WORKPLACE bullying is rife and on the rise at the University of NSW, according to a staff survey.
The vast majority of 552 people responded to the National Tertiary Education Union survey had experienced or witnessed bullying behaviours, the union found. Those included 68 per cent who said they had been bullied, and 83 per cent who had witnessed such behaviour.
Three quarters reported ‘‘Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-92131337076306885032012-03-02T11:11:00.000-08:002012-09-28T07:07:01.582-07:00Bully buster? VQR spurs UVA launch of respectful workplace
A year-and-a-half after the suicide of the Virginia Quarterly Review's managing editor Kevin Morrissey launched a national debate about whether it was the scene of workplace bullying, UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan has launched the Respect@UVA program, a comprehensive workplace initiative designed to promote "kindness, dignity and respect."
But one workplace bullying expert thinks the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-47277019213545987322012-02-22T02:57:00.000-08:002012-09-28T07:05:15.901-07:00Fifty University Staff members have sought advice about bullying
Figures obtained by FOI requests show that nearly 20 University staff members have left York in the last five years citing bullying or harassment as one of the reasons.
During the period 2007-2009, York was ranked as the second worst institution for staff members leaving because of bullying or harassment.
The statistics also state that 53 members of staff have sought advice over bullying Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991631829730078581.post-49148183639487420052012-02-06T09:57:00.000-08:002012-09-28T07:03:39.801-07:00Life is much larger than them
My doctoral adviser recruited me and then dumped me after 5 years. She used my master's thesis to further her career, but knowing the quid-pro-quo situation in grad school, I turned a blind eye towards her blatant stealing of other students' (sometimes undergrads) papers and theses as well as mine.
When the time came, she had to get rid of me because I knew too much about her dirty laundry. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997966052121111327noreply@blogger.com