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Does Higher Education Still Prepare People for Jobs? In an age of unpredictable job evolution, it is hard to argue that the knowledge acquisition historically associated with a university degree is still relevant. But as university qualifications become more commonplace, recruiters and employers will incr...

Arthur Sackler's father always said to his sons: All I can give you is a good name. If you loose money, you can always make it back. But if you lose your good name it's gone forever.

Arthur was a genius. To get an idea of the scope of this you will have to read the book. His incredible capacity for success brought vast material riches and great power. And as some wise person once said: Power is like consuming alcohol on an empty stomach...intoxicating...and it greatly effects one's decision making.

Empire of Pain by Patrick Raddon Keef is a fascinating read about a family of doctors who started the op**te revolution in the USA.

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Autoethnography in Qualitative inquiry - Professor Carolyn Ellis and Professor Arthur Buchner "We Can Tell You Stories: Politics, Pleasure and Pain in Qualitative Inquiry"The Fourth Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference of Qualitative Research February...

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Priceless Stone - Inspirational Short Story One day a young boy asks his father what is the value of his life. Instead of answering a father told his son to take this rock and go sell it at a market. I...

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Plagiarism of a thesis earns authors a retraction — and a two-year-publishing ban Enamul Haque, whose master’s thesis was plagiarized by other authors In June of this year, Enamul Haque, a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, came across an article in the …

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How to do thematic analysis Thematic analysis is a method of analyzing qualitative data. It is usually applied to a set of texts, such as interview transcripts. The researcher

Have you ever had to drop out of your studies?
Read this …
Through my ethnographic studies I have learned that there is so much we can learn from our own reflections on our experiences; as well as, from the reflections of other people who had similar experiences. Now that I am a post graduate study leader, I encourage my students to reflect and read the reflections of other people. Here is one of my reflections:
Typical the independent and driven person that I am, I could not go into motherhood and just enjoy it. As soon as my maternity leave commenced - shortly before the birth of our first daughter - I enrolled for a B.Ed. degree with UNISA. Am I hearing mothers laughing in the background? 😉
Probably since I taught – Physical Science and ballet – until 10 days before her birth, my eldest daughter was a colicky baby who slept as little as possible … or so it felt. Now I have always been able to do fairly well on 4 hours of sleep and during post-graduate studies I have often used 2 nights a week for study, but with a new-born baby in the house my responsibilities soon overtook my energy capacity and four months into the process I had to wave goodbye to my studies.
At the time I did not reflect on the process. Sherbet, I hardly had enough brain capacity left to make dinner! But in later years I did and went from feeling like a loser for dropping out to accepting that it was the right thing to do at the time to changing direction and completing four other post graduate degrees.
My Learning:
If I swept the feeling of failure for not completing that B.Ed. it could easily have become a chip on my shoulder and prevented me from continuing my studies later on in life. Critical reflection of the process assisted me in realising that circumstances play and important role in success.
I did not fail because I was lazy or incompetent or … I dropped out because I had to choose between neglecting my baby or neglecting my further education. Hence, when my children were older I pursued my post-graduate studies with success again.
Not completing that B.Ed. provided me with an opportunity to learn.
What did you learn from your experiences that may benefit other people? If you feel brave enough to share, please do so here.
Thank you.