When Professor Roger Ellis was looking for contributors to the book he was compiling and editing, the Handbook of Quality Assurance for University Teaching, he found me, through this …
Are adult students/trainees wholly responsible for their own learning? How much responsibility should the teacher/trainer take for the success of the teaching-and-learning process?
I’ve been on a couple of courses recently where the trainers talked about previous clients in a way I found uncomfortable. One was chatting idly about them during breaks …
At the Battle of Ideas Festival over the weekend, one of the best sessions I attended was one entitled Learn Latin in 30 Minutes. Teacher and teaching-advisor Nevile Gwynne …
University culture has changed a great deal since I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s – mostly, I must say, for the worse. The introduction of tuition fees …
