Richard Millwood

Tara Brabazon in the Times Higher Education Supplement when discussing coursework masters degree courses: “They are squeezed between the crowd control of undergraduate education and the over-bureaucratised doctoral programmes that dislodge the historically functional relationship between a PhD candidate and supervisor.” She draws attention to the remarkable creativity of her students, when unleashed with a [...]

My first post about TeachMeet was a hurried blog in case Ewan offered a prize for the first person to Blog the event! More reflection, and waiting until the end, allows a more thoughtful blog which fills in some of the blanks. Blank 1 – why speak about delight? It was delightful to be able [...]

Great fun here in Redbridge Teachers’ Centre, free beer, good conversation and interesting ideas. As Ewan put it “Butlins for geeks”

Ever since reading about John Heron’s ‘up-hierarchy’ of delight, with his wonderfully expressive language, I have been enjoying adding new elements (although disregarding for now their connection, except as a list). I have made a poster of them and will be talking about them (if chosen to speak) at the TeachMeet in Redbridge on Monday [...]

Almost five years to the day that Ultraversity was validated at Anglia Ruskin University, we have received conditional approval for a new scheme based on the same philosophies of learner-centred, work-focussed, community-supported, action-inquiry and innovative assessment. This IDIBL course framework validated at the University of Bolton is more ambitious in scope, more refined in character [...]