Many students do their homework and revision while listening to music. Many of them will swear that listening to their favourite songs makes them study better. But does music help or hinder learning? And does it matter what type of music you listen to while revising. More...
At the University of Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College, where Stephen Hawking was a fellow for more than half a century, the college flag was flying at half-mast on Wednesday. More...
I was surprised to see students at my university ask for their lecturers to talk to them ‘as though I’m a person’. More...
Students who sue universities because their degrees didn’t lead to well-paid jobs forget they were there to learn how to think. More...
On the picket line I’ve seen how much widespread support there is, by those fighting against broader attacks on education. More...
Most of our highly paid deans and pro-vice-chancellors have not conducted an undergraduate tutorial in years, and many more highly paid staff neither teach students nor carry out academic research. Deans, heads of department and promotion committees were elected, but now they are appointed from above. More...
Les disciplines académiques par exemple se sont constituées d’une part en disciplines cliniques ou de la subjectivité, d’autre part en disciplines de l’activité (Rochex, 1995) ou du comportement, notamment cognitif. Ces disciplines tantôt s’ignorent, tantôt s’épuisent en vaines querelles de territoire ou en exercice d’apparente complémentarité, sans s’interroger sur l’obstinante familiarité de ce qui fait leur cadre commun de pensée. Plus...
S’il est vrai que les managers de proximité semblent accorder une importance renouvelée à l’Empathie comme fondement de la relation à l’autre, force est de constater que le spectacle de l’actualité nous donne des exemples assez contrastés d’attitudes ou des personnes faisant preuve d’empathie, au péril de leur vie, ou d’actes totalement inverses, dénués de tout intérêt porté à la souffrance des autres. Plus...
The evidence against grammar schools mounts again. Our new research shows that grammars are no better or worse than non-selective state schools in terms of their pupils’ progress in attainment. More...
The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy may be overshadowed in schools today by writers such as Shakespeare, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling. But in times of widespread education cuts it is worth remembering what he had to teach us about access to education – and his belief in the power of books to change lives. More...
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