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Category Archives: Teaching
Welcoming new students, and making sure we keep them
One of the concerns of admissions tutors at this time of year is that the students they have selected over the previous months perform well once they reach university. A key indicator of a successful selection policy is student retention.
Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
There has been a heated discussion in this week’s Chronicle about the amount of work tenured or permanent lecturers do and whether things get easier or harder as you get up the food chain.
Tagged: tenure track, time management
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Countdown to the start of term!
Most UK universities start their term in either 2 or 3 weeks time so the countdown to the new academic year has begun. Research projects are being hastily completed, or set aside, and attention turns towards teaching. What is the … Read More
Tagged: course design
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Importance of student exchanges
As a lecturer, one aspect of my job is to work with home students who have been away on a year abroad and students from overseas who come to the UK to study, either on an Erasmus or exchange programmes. … Read More
Teaching as a postgraduate
One of the problems faced by postgraduate seminar tutors is the lack of support and advice on how best to perform in the classroom. I discovered a very useful website created by Emma Stafford of Royal Holloway that offers some … Read More
Students do less work shock!
An article on the University World news website has revealed something that will not shock many academics: students now are doing considerably less work on their degrees than their predecessors in the 1960s!
The importance of being organised!
As many academics turn their attention to marking, lecturers with full time or permanent departmental responsibilities also increasingly have to turn their attention to administrative tasks. As secretarial and admin teams are phased out across universities, lecturers and professors are … Read More
