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The new age of higher education, with its vast increase in the numbers and types of students now mostly paying for their education, provides lecturers with daunting challenges. Student expectations...
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'We have to be all things to all people'
Academics are under pressure to meet the ever-increasing expectations of students, parents, ministers and others, reports Lindsey Neville, while, opposite, two undergraduates give their verdict on...
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Buy the book
Research by publishers and booksellers shows that students, even in the internet age, value textbooks and respond to recommendations from lecturers, writes Margaret Hewinson In an age of Google,...
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Take talk to a new level
The lecture is evolving from a simple speech and slide show into a dynamic process that involves students in active learning, says Stella Cottrell Lectures are not what they used to be - and they are...
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Get on the insight track
Clarity and independence of thought is a form of literacy too often neglected, argues Brian Greetham. To save students from glib complacency and muddled thinking, we must fill them with passion for...
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Cosine of the times
Today's students need to be made to feel confident in using mathematics and making sense of it in the context of their subject, says Claire Morris Aquick web search revealed that courses in ecology,...
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Pain & gain
Academic life might not be as idyllic as it once was, but it still has its rewards. Wyn Grant offers advice to young scholars Why should anyone want to become an academic? It is certainly not an...
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How to hit the right buttons
E-learning is a dynamic mixture of different methods, approaches and technologies. Many young learners are conversant with communication technologies and expect to find them used in their studies,...
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Consider the ins and outs
Building study skills both within subject teaching and in separate units allows all types of students to benefit, argues Gina Wisker There is a continuing discussion about the appropriate...
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Attention, s'il vous plaît
Lecturers are responding creatively to the challenge posed by language students who are more diverse than ever, says Michael Kelly Le changement dans le calme? I don't think so, not in languages....
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Points for debate
Argumentation skills are underdeveloped in undergraduates, write Beng Huat See, Carole Torgerson and Richard Andrews, who suggest some ways ahead The making and presenting of academic arguments has...
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Learning skills in HE index
 Learning skills in HE Published in The Times Higher on June 1 2007  Leader  'By failing to guide them in their learning, universities turn literate school-leavers into illiterate graduates' All...
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Arts: 'I expected more tuition'
Arts: 'I expected more tuition' I've been at university since the end of September. This basically means that if I had any ideas on what I was expecting from my course, I have long since forgotten...
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Research wrecked by 'bean counters'
Outraged scholar's analysis reveals that even a Nobel winner would fail on new 'productivity targets', reports Phil Baty Academics' careers are being wrecked by crude performance targets, it was...
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Legal star will 'ruin' supporters of boycott
Alan Dershowitz, one of America's leading lawyers, has promised he will personally visit legal and financial ruin on any UK academic supporting a boycott of Israeli academe. The Felix Frankfurter...