Beyond employability and the market: envisaging curriculum change in the new higher education environment
April 11, 2013
Video >> Dr John Holmwood: “The session addresses issues arising from the ‘over-interpretation’ of employability as a desirable outcome of undergraduate education. Applications for undergraduate degrees in sociology and social policy have fallen nationally at the same time as the core and margin system have created a highly competitive environment in the upper margin. In …
A mechanism for optimising curriculum development and teaching
Video >> Dr Kay Bond: “In common with many units across the University, the Faculty of Engineering faces a number of significant challenges, amongst which maintenance of high quality teaching and excellent student experience in the face of efficiency savings rank highly. Additional, engineering-specific, challenges come from the need to respond positively and professionally to …
Jan Parker: Splendor! It all coheres
Video >> Dr Jan Parker outlines three overlapping models of curricula – an outcomes-based approach, the developmental pathway, and the discipline as a home and community of practice for students and teachers alike. She expands on the latter in particular, and relate these notions to the place of inter-, cross- and multi- disciplinary courses in …
Supervising an International Masters project – a UK perspective
April 9, 2013
Prof Vicky Story: “Both Duncan [Dr Shaw on the UK perspective] and Mohan [Prof Mohan Avvari on the Malasia perspective] highlight the difficulties in getting firms to host MBA projects. However, as they also highlight, and based on my own experience supervising a number of these company-based projects, when they are done well, they are …
Feedback and its benefits
April 8, 2013
Students describe the feedback they’ve been getting and how learning from the feedback on one piece of work helps with improving performance on the next piece. Visit the University’s Studying Effectively website for more on learning at University.
Supervising an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 26, 2013
Anita Chakrabarty: “The success of an international project hinges on many things, amongst them of course is excellent support from the teams that set up the entire collaborative effort in both campuses. Apart from students, I believe that such projects are equally sought after by faculty, for two reasons. First it expands our own knowledge …
Setting up an international Masters project – a Malaysia perspective
March 13, 2013
Prof. Mohan Avvari: “As Dr Duncan Shaw rightly put it in his post on the UK perspective, many MBAs love doing projects with external organisations because it gives them access to the full commercial context of their work, they can see how it helps the firm and they have a much more compelling addition their …
Setting up an international Masters project – UK perspective
February 26, 2013
Dr Duncan Shaw: “About seven years ago they gave me the admin job of finding projects for MBA dissertations. I used to work for Motorola and I did consultancy projects for lots of firms, so when I became an academic the Business School in the UK asked me to work with firms to get company-based …
Using stories to encourage student empathy
January 30, 2013
Charley Baker: “The theoretical and pedagogic background to using literature, narratives, stories, autobiographies and fiction (and other humanities) in the education of clinical professionals is the subject of a growing body of research, with accompanying fierce debate about its educational utility. Tischler (2010, p. 2) suggests that current clinical curriculums “don’t nurture the student’s whole …
Making the development of employability skills more obvious to students.
January 22, 2013
Dr Jo Robinson explains how the School of English helps students to tailor their studies to develop a wide range of skills for their future careers. Dr Jo Robinson, School of English. This interview was carried out as part of the Study Skills project, run by Kim Lawson in Academic Support.
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