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 little [...]
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May 25th, 2008 2 Comments
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Why British universities are limiting the experience of secondary education. How can they be doing a better job?
November 26th, 2007 No Comments
This was the title of the Thirteenth Askes’s Education Lecture held in the Haberdasher’s Hall, West Smithfield, London, given by Dr Anthony Seldon, Master, Wellington College.
Anthony delivered an impassioned plea to sit up and take notice of the damage done by league tables and subject examinations to the notion of a broad education and the [...]
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