The Higher Education Network aims to bring together those researching and teaching in the Higher Education sector to develop and discuss best practice in areas of shared interest, and to grow the Society’s engagement with this community. Such shared interests include geoscience pedagogy and curriculum development; student skills requirements (e.g. field skills); professional formation and development; knowledge transfer and university-industry-government collaboration; intellectual property protection and development; and outreach.
With geoscience-related degrees seeing a decline in applicants, George Jameson (Diversity and Inclusion Project Lead) discusses the value of further education in Earth science graduate outcomes. For some time, we have wondered about how beneficial or useful obtaining a degree in the Earth sciences can be for those graduating in the United Kingdom. This question … Continue reading
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