Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
Dennis Waterman was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including The Sweeney,Minder and New Tricks,singing the theme tunes of the latter two.
Bottega University is a for-profit,accredited distance learning university headquartered in Salt Lake City,Utah,United States.
The International Association of Universities (IAU) is a membership-led non-governmental organization working in the field of global higher education. It has more than 600 members in over 130 countries,including institutions,organizations,affiliates,and associates in higher education. The IAU was created under and is an official associate partner of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
David Bolt is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the Director of the Centre for Culture &Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University,where he is also Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity.
The AO Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal injuries or pathologies and their sequelae through research,development,and education of surgeons and operating room personnel. The AO Foundation is credited with revolutionizing operative fracture treatment and pioneering the development of bone implants and instruments.
Sun Kwok is a Hong Kong astronomer best known for his work on physics and chemistry of the late stages of stellar evolution. In 1978,he proposed a new theory on the origin of planetary nebulae. which has transformed our understanding of the death of Sun-like stars. He is a pioneer on the study of stellar synthesis of organic compounds,which may have implications on the origin of life on Earth.
Daffodil International University or (DIU) is a private research university located in Daffodil Smart City,Birulia,Savar,Dhaka,Bangladesh. It was established on 24 January 2002 under the Private University Act of 1992. DIU is the largest private university in Bangladesh by its campus size.
Tara Brabazon is Dean of Graduate Research and Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University,in Darwin,Australia,moving from the same position at Flinders University in 2023. She remains the Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University. She has previously held academic positions in the UK,Australia,New Zealand and Canada,won six teaching awards,published 20 books,and written 250 refereed articles and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts.
A smart city is an urban area that uses digital technology to collect data and to operate/provide services. Data can be collected from citizens,devices,buildings,or cameras. Applications include traffic and transportation systems,power plants,utilities,urban forestry,water supply networks,waste disposal,criminal investigations,information systems,schools,libraries,hospitals,and other community services. The foundation of a smart city is built on the integration of people,technology,and processes,which connect and interact across sectors such as healthcare,transportation,education,and infrastructure,etc. Smart cities are characterized by the ways in which their local governments monitor,analyze,plan,and govern the city. In a smart city,the sharing of data extends to businesses,citizens and other third parties who can derive benefit from using that data. The three largest sources of spending associated with smart cities as of 2022 were visual surveillance,public transit,and outdoor lighting.
Clive L. N. Ruggles is a British astronomer,archaeologist and academic. He is the author of academic and popular works on the subject. In 1999,he was appointed professor of archaeoastronomy at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History,University of Leicester,when it is believed to have been the only appointed chair for archaeoastronomy among the world's universities. As of 2023,he was Emeritus Professor at this university.
David G. Hebert is a musicologist and comparative educationist,employed as Professor of Music at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,where he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group. He has contributed to the fields of music education,ethnomusicology,sociomusicology,comparative education,and East Asian Studies. Since 2018,he has been manager of the Nordic Network for Music Education,a multinational state-funded organization that sponsors intensive Master courses and exchange of university music lecturers and students across Northern Europe. He is also a visiting professor in Sweden with the Malmo Academy of Music at Lund University,and an honorary professor with the Education University of Hong Kong. He has previously been sponsored by East Asian governments as a visiting research scholar with Nichibunken in Kyoto,Japan,and the Central Conservatory of Music,in Beijing,China. He also serves in various leadership roles with the International Society for Music Education.
Brian Regal is an American historian of science,skeptic and writer. He is an associate professor of the history of science at Kean University in New Jersey.
Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized,with consensus achieved using proof of stake. It can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency,ADA.
Gayane Hovhannisyan is an Armenian linguist,Doctor of Sciences in Philology/Linguistics (2000),Professor (2005). Hovhannisyan was the first Chair of English Teaching Methodology at Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan,Yerevan. Currently she is the (acting) head of English Communication and Translation Chair at Brusov State University.
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch is Professor Emeritus for Global Marketing Strategy at WU,Vienna University of Economics and Business,Vienna,Austria. Currently,he serves as Interim Dean of the WU Executive Academy. From 2018 to 2023,he has been Chair of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and Business Graduate Association (BGA). He has been awarded Fellowships from the Academy of International Business,the Academy of Marketing Science and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. The American Marketing Association conferred the Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award,and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Higher Education,the Academy of Marketing Science the 2023 Marketer of the Year Award,and Thammasat University a Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professorship.
A bullshit job or pseudowork is meaningless or unnecessary wage labour which the worker is obliged to pretend to have a purpose. Polling in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands indicates that around 40% of workers consider their job to fit this description.
Mubashir Husain Rehmani is a Pakistani researcher and computer scientist. His areas of work are computer networking,telecommunications,wireless communications and blockchain. He was recognised in 2020 and 2021 as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in computer science by Clarivate.
Simon Thompson is a research computer scientist,author,and an emeritus professor of the University of Kent,specializing in logic and computation. His research into functional programming covers software verification and validation,programming tool-building,and software testing for the functional programming languages Erlang,Haskell,and OCaml. He is the author of books on data type theory,Miranda,Haskell,and Erlang,and runs a massive open online course about Erlang for FutureLearn.
Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge and of Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. Vice-Chair of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;President of the Bulgarian Sociological Association. Expert for the European Commission and Permanent Senior Fellow at Center for Advanced Studies,Sofia. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Sociological Association’s edition Sage Studies in International Sociology,Board Member of International Journal of Lifelong Education since 2008 and of Journal of Social Science Education since 2009. Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham;Professor of Sofia University and New Bulgarian University. Her research interests are in the fields of inequalities in education;social justice and education;education,science and social modernization;university and society;lifelong and adult learning;public representation and images of science and scientists.
