How universities can address the lack of Black scholars in academia: Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock In the UK, out of 164 university vice-chancellors, only two are Black. Professor David Mba was recently appointed as the first Black vice-chancellor at Birmingham City University. There are 165 Black professors in the UK – out of 23,515. The disparity becomes …
How reading ‘dark academia’ novels can help new students feel more at home at university: Giammarco Boscaro/Unsplash Over the next few weeks, over a million new university students will be heading to campus. Many of them may be nervous about what lies ahead, which is understandable given that most of them will be in a …
Netflix’s You: the real monster of series four is ‘dark academia’: Warning: the following article contains spoilers for the first half of You series four. Since its release in 2018, Netflix’s drama You has sparked both intrigue and controversy. Based on the fictional novel of the same name by Caroline Kepnes, the show follows the …
New Trailblazers Fellowships power open hardware in academia: New Trailblazers Fellowships power open hardware in academia Joshua Pearce Wed, 03/23/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Witness the rise of open hardware! Last year, I wrote about how now is the time to start seriously thinking about a career in open source. Next, the …
Why academia chooses open source: Why academia chooses open source ben van ‘t ende Sat, 03/19/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Participants of the Phaidracon 2021 roundtable on open source and academia recently discussed how open source delivers new or additional value to the academic space and its specific role regarding the …
Black women in South African academia struggle to get ahead: what needs to change: Institutional management owes it to society to investigate whether their own culture excludes black women and makes them feel like imposters. shutterstock In South Africa, the number of black women who acquire undergraduate degrees has increased more than any other population …
Five intellectual fashion statements from history that anticipated today’s dark academia trend: Portrait of the ladies of the Bluestocking Society as the characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo. National Portrait Gallery Writing with a quill pen dipped in ink, sitting in the flickering of candlelight in a book-lined study, and vintage tweed …
COVID-19 has sparked new relationships between academia and policymakers – we must maintain them: Mongkolchon Akesin/Shutterstock In the aftermath of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19, the New York Times stated that “science has failed to guard us”. This was hardly unfair, given that scientists were unsure what had even caused the pandemic, let alone …
How women in academia are feeling the brunt of COVID-19: The disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on the productivity of women could see many leave academia. Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent public health response of lockdown has brought into sharp relief the constraints faced by women across the board. We have been keeping a …
SITA Invests in 7th School Computer Lab at Academia Primary School in Khayelitsha: Suren Naidoo, SITA; Mr Allies, Academia School Principal; Bruce Croza SAA SITA invests in 7th school computer Lab at Academia Primary School in Khayelitsha – Khayelitsha, Cape Town – on the 28th of September 2018, the SITA South Africa team joined the …
Mainstream academia embraces open source hardware: Twenty years ago, even staunch proponents of free and open source software like Richard Stallman questioned the social imperative for free hardware designs. Academics had barely started to consider the concept; the number of papers coming out annually on the topic were less than could be counted on someone’s …
Unraveling what’s holding back women economists in academia: Data shows gender disparities in networking. Shutterstock When it comes to academic success female scientists are – on average – usually behind their male counterparts. They receive academic tenure less often and win fewer awards. This gender gap exists in the academic discipline of economics, too. In …