Failure is often viewed as a daunting prospect, especially in the context of tertiary education. For many students in South Africa, the stakes are high. Not only do academic setbacks threaten their ...

I am an academic failure. According to conventional academic metrics—works published and citations cited—I don’t meet the minimum criteria for an early-career scholar. Alternative metrics—such as peer ...

In no other career is failure as common as in academia. A completed dissertation is almost always a Frankenstein-like patchwork of revisions and corrections made in response to reviewers’ (often ...

Tonight, at midnight, I became unemployed. And my last afternoon of employment – as training coordinator for postdoctoral researchers in the humanities at Oxford – was spent running an event called ...

NOT passing a school or tertiary academic year is often experienced as far more than an academic setback. For children, adolescents, and young adults, it can feel like a rupture in identity, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Spring ISD is trying to prevent the possibility of a state takeover as Dekaney High School faces a fifth year of academic failure. As the district works to turn test scores ...