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January 22, 2020
Arcane Cage is Historical Fiction
Historical Fictionistas (group) on goodreads.com graciously offered the authors among its membership to nominate their own works for the group read in March 2020. I submitted my fictional work, Arcane Cage, believing it qualified per the rules. The moderators however disqualified it as “fantasy,” which I thought meant fantasy elements. Later, in the thread, however, they designated my work as “not HF” [or, not historical fiction]. Having the genre of my work categorized as not historical...
August 2, 2019
Arcane Cage Review | BookLife Prize 2019 from Publishers Weekly
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Historia|Research is pleased to share the Critic’s Report for Arcane Cage presented by Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize 2019.
The report lauds the overarching plot to Arcane Cage: “The great historical sweep of the entire book, and the account of Siddrah’s quest for the...
Higher Education News | Week Ending August 2, 2019
Outsourcing Student Success (Kindle Edition) | Click on the Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |Universities Demand ‘Dramatic’ Increase in Third-Level Funding | In a pre-budget submission released today, the Irish Universities Association (IUA) said an overall budget contribution of €377 million – in operational, research and capital funding – is necessary to cater to a sector it says has seen funding per student fall by 43 per cent in the last decade.
July 26, 2019
Higher Education News | Week Ending July 26, 2019
Outsourcing Student Success (Kindle Edition) | Click on the Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |SDGs ‘not attainable without contribution of HE’, UN told | None of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs – the internationally agreed framework for tackling poverty, inequality, disease and climate change – can be achieved without the contribution of higher education through research, teaching and community engagement.
July 4, 2019
News Items from the Week of June 28, 2019
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International students boost jobs and business | Foreign students studying in Australia spent more than AU$35 billion (US$24 billion) last year on tourism, food, travel and housing. The huge expenditure by students also supported more than 240,000 local jobs and countless small and family businesses across the nation.
It’s time the UK starts talking about graduate outcomes for international stu...
June 21, 2019
News Items from the Week of June 21, 2019
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Is there really a free speech crisis in Australia’s universities? [podcast] | In a government-commissioned review, former High Court chief justice Robert French concluded that “claims of a freedom of speech crisis on Australian campuses are not substantiated”, but nonetheless recommended a national code to strengthen protections around free academic expression.
June 20, 2019
News Items from the Week of June 14, 2019
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Ambitious Modi plan to restructure HE and boost research | India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development this week unveiled a draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured a solid majority for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in national elections, giving him a second term in office. The ambitious plan lays out a wide-ranging restructuring of...
News Items from the Week of June 7, 2019
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Mexican Higher Education: From Mass to Universal to Compulsory? | In his influential essay 40 years ago, Martin Trow theorized the evolution of educational systems of higher education from elite, to mass, to universal defined by their coverage. He also defined attitudes towards access as privilege, right or obligation. However, Trow was basing his framework on patterns of student enrollment, no...
News Items from the Week of May 31, 2019
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The Role of Librarians in Supporting ICT Literacy | Librarians in educational settings try to provide not only physical access but also intellectual access to recorded information. Because digital resources constitute a significant portion of this information, librarians need to pay explicit attention to the effective retrieval and use of these assets. More specifically, users should have the a...
News Items from the Week of May 24, 2019
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OECD Finds Advanced Economies Need to Accelerate SDG Implementation | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released an updated assessment of each OECD country’s progress towards the SDGs. Overall, the report finds that OECD countries need to accelerate efforts to leave no one behind, particularly to achieve SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 10...
