Probably everyone remembers his or her first time attending a big international conference. When you are fresh to the academic community and you would like to schedule an appointment with well-known researchers in your field and build […]
Why do some international doctoral students decide to drop out?
Melissa Laufer and Meta Gorup, doctoral candidates at the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG) at Ghent University in Belgium, have recently published an article in which they present and analyze stories […]
Protected by their shields? Why are UK universities increasingly adopting coats of arms as their logos?
In what is now a classic paper, Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell (1983) explained that companies/firms in any given field (loosely speaking, an industry) often resemble each other after a time. They described how the process […]
It’s time to publish! Which journals are out there for higher education researchers?
You are half-way through your research and you are starting to think about the options you have regarding publishing. There are many journals out there, but how to tell which is the right one for your study? When it comes to journal […]