199. Mailbag: Is a Master’s enough, or do I n...

A few generations ago, you could probably graduate from a PhD program and immediately land yourself a junior faculty position at a nearby university. But as grad school enrollment grew, a new quasi-professional job-description emerged in the nebulous middle ground between student ...  Show more

Josh and Dan traveled to Washington DC for the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2023. We chatted with students, postdocs, and faculty about everything from grad school applications to industry jobs to work-life-balance. And we recorded this special update from the hall of post ...  Show more

Das lebenslange Lernen wird für Berufstätige immer wichtiger. Auch Hochschulen entwickeln immer neue Angebote. Sie wollen auch Interessierte ohne Abitur und Studium erreichen. Von Britta Mersch (SWR 2023) | Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung: http://swr.li/weiterbildung-beruf | Bei ...  Show more

A master’s degree shows quite simply that you’re a master (at least to some extent) in a certain subject. For decades, getting a master’s degree has been seen as a financially savvy move to open you up to higher pay, better job opportunities, and golden networking connections. Bu ...  Show more

Humans are naturally curious, and we are learning machines! But do most of our students truly know what it takes to learn? We all learn to walk quite naturally ... but becoming an ultra-marathoner takes a whole new set of physical, cognitive, and psychological skills. The Fika Cr ...  Show more

Who is your degree for, and what is your degree for?The answer to such a question might appear obvious, but as we will see, it is far from straight forward.To examine the value of an online degree we first begin by understand the difference between learning and a degree, opening ...  Show more