No feedback loop, no way to improve (3 of 3)
Feedback from students is an essential element of any pedagogic process: without it, education is reduced to indoctrination. Standardised evaluation forms and formal box-ticking exercises such as the...
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Tourist attractions
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is rightly concerned about the effect a cut in international student numbers will have on the UK economy ("Britain needs foreign talent flow -...
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Slave labour
Sir Tim Wilson's Review of Business-University Collaboration raises the prospect of a generation of students suffering the exploitation of unpaid internships under the guise that they need more work...
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Offensive characterisation
The characterisation by Ruth Deech of the Office for Fair Access' collaborative work with universities, which encourages them to maximise their range of qualified applicants (and therefore entrants...
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Gender agenda
In "De Montfort ga ga as Queen selects it for Jubilee party" (8 March), it was reported that the Duke of Edinburgh was keen to visit a robotics club designed to interest local secondary school...
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Reach for the stoicism
While it is good to see Sir Douglas Bader get an honourable mention ("Holding on to hope", 8 March), you are wrong to state: "In 1931, for example, Sir Douglas...could describe a ghastly crash with...
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Tag - you're it
My reading of Felipe Fernández-Armesto's excellent piece on university mottoes ("Playing to win at Latin tag", 1 March) coincided with the landing on my desk of the annual report of a prominent...
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Is it getting hot in here?
Here is proof that a general knowledge entrance examination for all prospective university students is sorely needed. A colleague of mine at another institution has just marked a first-year essay...
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Augusto Gansser, 1910-2012
According to science journalist Simone Ulmer, Augusto Gansser was "one of the last true adventurers who made his passion his profession".The geologist, researcher, teacher and explorer studied at the...
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Campus round-up
Birmingham City UniversityHipsters can, and should, dig itThe relationship between urban areas and the countryside must be reconfigured, according to researchers at Birmingham City University. An...
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15 March 2012
The nature of nurture - How the past shows the way to a healthy human future
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Women and children first
For decades the science of child-rearing was guided by patriarchal ideas, but now the cradle rocks to an older rhythm. Eric Michael Johnson, in conversation with eminent evolutionary biologists Sarah...
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‘Record’ boost to EPSRC doctoral grants
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to invest a record amount of money into its doctoral training grants in 2012-13.
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Funding bodies push for team effort on bids
Researchers are being “strongly encouraged” by state-sponsored funding bodies to consider whether their bids could be strengthened by collaborating with other groups and institutions.