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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Subject knowledge versus transferable skills
In the traditional university subjects, the jargon of transferable skills has been ever-present for a while now. For a teacher this is a pretty tough tightrope to walk, whether to train your students to be useful and confident members of … Read More
Setting exams: as tough as taking them?
Exam Questions invented: 40 (for two different courses) Advice from colleagues: priceless! This is the time of year when many academics turn their attention to exams. While that season is blissfully distant for unsuspecting students, we are slaving away trying … Read More
"Leaving on a Jetplane…?"
Friends in the job market now: lots, too many to mention! Friends considering working overseas: almost all of them. I was having a chat with one of my pals who currently works for a Russell Group university and he was … Read More
Its [sic] a typo!
Did you see my deliberate error in the title there? Moving on from last week’s blog I thought I would address the question of how we as higher education practitioners react to our students’ ability to write good, proper, accurate … Read More
Moving and Marking
Essays awaiting marking: 15 (it may not sound like a lot, but when they are identical, that is a lot of words to plough through!) Books/papers/folders lost during the house move: too many to mention! Apologies to my readers for … Read More
