Questions tagged [university]
Queries related to universities, as an institution of higher eduacation that grants academic degrees and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
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Doing research in academia and not liking competition
In short: is it possible to do research in academia (starting from a PhD position up to being a professor) while not liking competition?
I was an athlete in high school and I left because I was not ...
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Can a degree be revoked for minor misconduct? [duplicate]
I was wondering how possible it would be that, after graduating, the university would investigate a minor misconduct during college. By minor I mean, if found guilty the worst punishment would be / ...
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Is there an equivalent in another country of the French “CIFRE”?
A "CIFRE" in French is another type of doctorate where the French government helps to fund a company to hire a doctorand.
There are several differences between a CIFRE and a "doctorat" in France, or ...
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Should I cheat if the majority does it?
I'm taking the last and hardest exams of my master degree. During the exams we aren't allowed to use anything else but our brain. Cheating is pretty easy though: one has the lecture notes and all the ...
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What can I do with a research project that is my university’s intellectual property?
I'm working on a final year project on software development. I intend to publish it as a research paper on computer science, but the university says that it will hold intellectual-property rights (IPR)...
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Dr. rer. med Title
The doctorate title "Dr. rer. med" is awarded to non-medical postgraduate researchers from University Hospitals.
Is it equivalent to a PhD, or Dr. Eng. etc.?
Is it recognisable in other countries ...
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Submitting a trivial correction to a CS assignment/coursework (i.e. source code)
I am a University student.
I had some course work which I had to submit. This work is a computer program, a very large codebase. Due to technical reasons, which are entirely my fault, I submitted the ...
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In the upper echelon of universities, is it the case that international students generally perform better than local ones?
This question is aimed at undergraduate level, since postgraduate students are more mobile. By "upper echelon" I mean those that are, say, in the top 200 universities in the world (presumably there ...
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I unknowingly submitted plagiarised work
I have received an email saying that my essay is under consideration for the ethics committee for suspected plagiarism. My lecturer had told us that we could work on our essays together as we were all ...
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Final exams: What is the most common protocol for scheduling?
At my college this semester, just a few weeks before spring final exams, the administration decided to entirely throw out the prior process for scheduling final exams (which has been in use for at ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a professor to bump up a grade when I suspect it may be at the cutoff?
Background: My course has three exams: I did really bad on the first, great on the second (97%), and I think well on the third. I regularly attended the professor's office hours and never missed class....
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Professor Misinformed class on exam structure [closed]
In my module for the last 4~ months whenever the structure of our exam was brought up, our lecturer stated that we would get 3 questions and be required to answer only 2 of them. This had been the ...
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Do students need to wait a year to join university in Canada?
I am an Indian and my son is going to complete high school (+2) in March 2020.
I am planning to apply for engineering/computer science for my son in any university/college in Canada.
Now, I come to ...
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appropriate Word for transfering student from one university to another university
I am searching an appropriate word for transferring student from one University to another University
There might be such a word which helps me to search for related topics of transferring student ...
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What does a dean do? [closed]
This is a follow-up question to What does a head of department do?
The University of Waterloo has a document that describes the answer to this question; however the document is rather vague, and it ...
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What's the proper way to (APA) reference a settlement agreement?
I want to reference an exhibit from the following document (it's been split into separate parts):
Exhibits:
https://targetbreachsettlement.com/Portals/0/Documents/Settlement%20Agreement%20Exhibits....
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Using university's resources that are online
A lot of the time when looking for information about a topic online I come across another university's resources that are publicly available. Some have a full listing of all the resources available ...
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Should my PhD thesis be submitted under my legal name?
I married during my PhD and changed my legal surname however (for many reasons) I will continue to publish under my maiden name. My (UK) university says that a thesis has to be submitted under the ...
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Do universities favor experimentalists over theoreticians? [closed]
This question is based off the following chain of reasoning:
Universities employ professors, who write funding applications and win grants. The university then takes some fraction of the grant as "...
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posting photos of my students in classroom
Is it legal/ethical to include photos of my students in my classroom online (as in my online portfolio)?
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How much help with coursework is acceptable?
If a university student is set coursework, this is generally a very uncontrolled method of assessment. Lots of different sources can be used to draw knowledge from and often if it's a technical ...
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Identical projects by students at two different colleges: still plagiarism?
Me and my friend attend different colleges, both of which are part of the same university. My friend has done the project and as well as me too. Our projects are exactly the same - not a single word ...
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How do you find out if academia is the right path for you?
Apologies if this question is not entirely fitting for this Exchange, but I didn't know where else to ask.
I am currently working through my Masters, and while talking with one of my professors the ...
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Should I apply to grad school as an international or as a domestic student? (Canada, Engineering)
I'm interested in going to grad school in Canada. I'm a foreigner but I can relatively easily obtain my PR as I satisfy all requirements.
Admission-wise, would applying to grad school as an ...
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How to by-pass bioethics for a trivial bio-experiment?
I am from Computer Science (CS) doing microscopy imaging applications, mainly in software side.
Recently we submitted a paper to Scientific Reports on a new algorithm. My own human blood cells (a ...
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Why are academic libraries public? [closed]
According to the Global Library Statistics the United States consists of 3793 academic libraries with more than 7 million users. They are visiting their university library like other people the postal ...
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Conducting independent research while in a university
This could possibly be very specific to each university, but I was wondering if there is a rule prohibiting researchers who are working within a university from conducting independent research — ...
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Cheating among the international students very common in college. What should I do?
I am an international student in an European country. During midterms and finals, I realized that more than half of the students are overtly cheating. I do not mean just looking other student's paper, ...
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For a TA, is a recommendation from his employing university helpful for a PhD?
A friend of mine finished his Master's program a year ago and started working as a Teaching Assistant at a university. He will be granted assistant professorship this year but he is in the process of ...
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PhD or postdoc salary in Denmark according to the cost of living. Is it OK?
I´d like to know if the average salary for a PostDoc and a PhD student is sufficient for a middle income expectations in Denmark.
What I mean for middle income is for the two of us (1 PostDoc and 1 ...
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Violated academic integrity on an online coursework. What do I do?
basically I was working on the answers with my friend and didn’t realize the questions were slightly different and therefore I used the answers we got that were based off of hers to mine. I am scared, ...
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Should I apply for a master in the US? [closed]
I am a CS student in Italy, about to get my bachelor degree. In the past few months I've been looking for some masters in my field (Computer Science with orientation towards Data Science) and have ...
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As adjunct faculty at four-year university, with no PhD, what should I have my students call me?
I will be teaching at a four year university as adjunct faculty. Is it okay to have my students to call me Professor LastName, even if I do not have this title formally? If not, what other options do ...
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Selling of monuments: What does it mean?
I am watching the documentary "Free to Choose, Part 6: What's Wrong With Our Schools" at this link
At 20:08, Friedman says:
Many of the buildings and facilities at Dartmouth have been donated by
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Why do some universities shut down during December?
Examples: Newcastle University, Queen's University, University of Florida.
It seems weird to give employees free leave. The Newcastle University page gives an explanation for why this happens:
The ...
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Accepting 2 postgraduate university offers
I have received a conditional offer from the University of Birmingham and an unconditional offer from the University of Leeds for a masters degree in marketing, both programs are great but I have a ...
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Combining absolute and curve grading?
I know some advantages and disadvantages of using absolute grading as well as curve grading. Next semester, I plan to combine both by first grading absolutely, and then use curve grading to add points ...
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How to deal with bad department chair?
As students we have the right to choose our semester subjects (for the new semester beginning in 2019)
So we went send an email to the department chair indicating what subject we would like to take. ...
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University whose main language of instruction is German [closed]
I would like to study mathematics, at undergraduate level, at a university whose main language of instruction is German. I've found some universities in Switzerland and Germany, obviously. I would ...
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Can you be working remotely on your PhD thesis of another country and then enroll and get a master/PhD in US at the same time?
A friend of mine has finished his courses needed for his PhD. He's just working on his thesis now. He can do that remotely.
He's coming to the U.S. for his wife to study. During this time, can he ...
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How much cost a graduate student to a supervisor? [closed]
In order to hire a certain number of student in an office, I was wondering how much should one supervisor should think about the money involved. To restrict the answer, I'd like to focus in a biology ...
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Is 75% an acceptable failing cutoff? [closed]
The dean of our school/program teaches a class and has put in the syllabus that if a student gets below a 75% in her class it is an F and the student will be eliminated from the program. She doesn't ...
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How should I organize my life towards a PhD in the next year?
After graduating and working for a few months I decided that I will quit my job to pursue a master's and then a PhD.
Before doing any applications I want to spend time reading the literature in ...
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When does the grad school classes begin [closed]
I want to know that when does the classes for grad school begin in US universities. Is it divided into two like summer and fall as i have seen in the websites of universities or does it have a ...
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University learning over online learning [duplicate]
What are some advantages of learning on-campus that one does not get from learning online?
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Creative solutions to convince research dean that I deserve PhD candidature [closed]
I need your help please to suggest solutions to a problem I am facing during my PhD. My story is detailed below with the important events that are related to the story:
I just finished my first year ...
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How should one advertise a program if it doesn't lead to jobs?
(Asking this since similar themes have come up in a conversation with a friend)
So-and-so physics department has decided to start teaching more astrophysics classes, because they need more students. ...
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Making business out of Ph.D. thesis [closed]
Would advisors and universities generally support Ph.D. students who have an applicable thesis, to make contracts with the public sector in the US?
And, will it bring a good share for the student ...
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What can be done when my assignment's requirements has been so vague that it is jeopardising the grade that can be achieved?
An assignment spec was released but it was poorly written and vague to the point where the requirements of the software system is unclear. As a final year undergraduate this unit counts a lot to my ...
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Uni group project being used by companies for profit
Our second semester group project is to bid for, develop, and attempt to "sell" a software solution. Local companies are the customer that provide the brief, and that we attempt to "sell" to.
I was ...
