We are all told to follow our calling. Here’s what happens if you pursue a more ‘sensible’ career instead.
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College students with children have slightly higher GPAs but often take a longer time to graduate and are more likely to drop out of school.
Benin’s new abortion law will take a woman’s educational, professional and material situation into consideration.
Our work is often so closely tied to our sense of who we are, many of us struggle to switch off on holidays. But it’s never too late to hide the laptop.
Today’s graduates may average five separate careers and around 17 different employers in their working life. This means an important skill these days is flexibility and the ability to adapt.
Students who get admitted to Connecticut’s career and technical education high schools are more likely to graduate and earn significantly more than peers who barely missed the cut.
People on zero-hours contract are often given minimal training and some workers are even asked to pay for their training themselves.
First-generation college students earn substantially less than their peers whose parents went to college, new research shows.
Under representation of women in the science and engineering career fields is a result of poor work life balance.
What your career history means for your retirement future.
Practical reads to propel you to professional success.
Research shows there are some common struggles among those who retire from being professional athletes but players can be successful in careers after sport.
There are currently far too few vacant academic jobs in Australia each year to employ all our PhD students. It’s time to rethink the training of doctoral students.
Career counselling shouldn’t be a luxury that only certain people can access. It’s actually a necessity in the rapidly changing world of work.
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Professor Of Work and Employment, King's College London
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Human Resource Management, Head of School of Management, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Management, Curtin University
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Senior Lecturer at York Business School, York St John University
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Lecturer in Organisational Studies, Department of Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Labour Economics, University of Birmingham
