‘Integrated Laboratory of Scientific-academic Literacies - LILA’: facing challenges in language education

Student Writing in Higher Education: an Academic Literacies Approach

This article addresses the issue of student writing in higher education. It draws on the findings of an Economic and Social Research Council funded project which examined the contrasting expectations and interpretations of academic staff and students regarding undergraduate students' written assignments. It is suggested that the implicit models that have generally been used to understand studen...

Challenges facing early career academic cardiologists.

Early career academic cardiologists currently face unprecedented challenges that threaten a highly valued career path. A team consisting of early career professionals and senior leadership members of American College of Cardiology completed this white paper to inform the cardiovascular medicine profession regarding the plight of early career cardiologists and to suggest possible solutions. This...

Challenges and opportunities facing medical education.

Medical education is at a crossroads. Although unique features exist at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education levels, shared aspects of all three levels are especially revealing, and form the basis for informed decision-making about the future of medical education.This paper describes some of the internal and external challenges confronting undergraduate medical education. Key i...

Addressing the Challenges facing American undergraduate education

Serious challenges face American higher education and our nation’s continued economic competitiveness and security. Some of these challenges have been identified during the multiyear effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act and in several recent reports, including A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education by the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of...

Issues and Challenges to Socialization of Academic Norms in Scientific Communities in Iran