Great jobs for bright people
jobs.ac.uk’s new Professional Services campaign message is ‘a career in higher education means more’. We are aiming to highlight the fantastic benefits of working within professional services at universities, to…
[NB: the author is a lecturer at a Scottish university in the field of biological sciences and writes from that perspective] So, this is it – after several years of…
Have you thought about moving from the UK to work in the higher education sector in Australia but unsure about the practicalities? We collated your questions and queries about…
If you’re looking for a new job or want a career change and you’re thinking of working in HE, here’s what you need to know to help you make…
I recently applied for a short-term academic post. Ironic, given some of my previous articles about moving on from academia. I’ve worked outside academia for some 10 years now, but…
Teaching in Higher Education was a bit of an accidental/slightly detoured pathway for me. However, I can confidently say this ‘accident’, or detour, of working in HE was a unique…
I finished my PhD in 2016. It was the longest 4 years of my life but at the same time, the years passed in a blink of an eye. It…
A Welcoming and Efficient Student Helpdesk Reception Points and Helpdesks in Student Services have a myriad of functions which are perhaps often overlooked. So I thought it would be good…
I was interested to read the recent article by Jack Grove in Times Higher Education (August 2016) about Professional Services staff feeling undervalued. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professional-service-staff-feel-undervalued-study-suggests The article is based on a…
Working in student support is certainly a fulfilling and worthy area of employment in a University environment. Of course, a University thrives on the academic quality and the teaching spaces.…
