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24 janvier 2016

Recruiting students with higher grades won’t alone improve teaching quality in schools

By Tony Loughland. The Victorian government’s plan to introduce a (as yet unspecified) minimum ATAR for students looking to study a teaching course is not a silver bullet to improving teaching standards in schools. More...

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24 janvier 2016

Should I stay or should I go? The dilemma for unemployed teachers

By Misty Adoniou. More than 15,000 newly minted teachers are also excited about the prospect of stepping into their first classrooms, but unfortunately less than half of them will find permanent employment. More...

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24 janvier 2016

Ten types of PhD supervisor relationships – which is yours?

By Susanna Chamberlain. It’s no secret that getting a PhD is a stressful process.
One of the factors that can help or hinder this period of study is the relationship between supervisor and student. Research shows that effective supervision can significantly influence the quality of the PhD and its success or failure. More...

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24 janvier 2016

Why South Africa’s universities are in the grip of a class struggle

By Rajendra Chetty and Christopher B. Knaus. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students enrol to study at South Africa’s universities. Of the 60% of black African students who survive the first year, only 15% will ultimately graduate. This is hardly surprising: these failed students come from an oppressive, ineffective public school system. More...

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24 janvier 2016

How universities can help students avoid plagiarism: get them to write better

By Stuart Wrigley. As universities get better at detecting plagiarism, students are having to find new ways to avoid getting caught.
I have recently had quite a few students asking to see their reports from Turnitin – a plagiarism detection software used in most universities to root out internet plagiarism. More...

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24 janvier 2016

Why universities should start taking social media far more seriously

By Miemie Struwig and Amanda van den Berg. Social media is a risky space. Many people have learned this the hard way – 2016 began with several South Africans losing their jobs after making racist comments on Facebook and Twitter. Social media has also been used to expose people who hold racist views. More...

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24 janvier 2016

University under attack: what can Pakistan do to counter violent campaign against educators?

By Katharine Adeney. The latest attack on a university in Pakistan – this one, in a bitter twist of irony, named after a champion of peace, secularism and non-violence, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan who was known as “Frontier Gandhi” – is both symbolic as well as indicative of the continuing struggle within the power structures of Pakistan. More...

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24 janvier 2016

University protests are important – but school fees also matter

By Linda Chisholm. At the country’s universities, the #FeesMustFall campaign has rightly concentrated the collective mind on rising student fees,historical debt, the financial burdens students face when entering university, and an ineffectual National Student Financial Aid Scheme. More...

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24 janvier 2016

How Ghana’s universities are trying to open the doors of learning

By John Boateng. Thirty years ago, there was really only one way to be a university student in Ghana: finish school, enrol as a full-time candidate and dedicate yourself entirely to your studies.
There were barely any opportunities for those who were already working and wanted to study part time. Pregnant women, elderly people, those with disabilities and others who were ill and could not easily reach a physical campus stood little chance of ever going to university. More...

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24 janvier 2016

Why is English so hard to learn?

By Sean Sutherland. The prime minister, David Cameron, wants more Muslim women in the UK to be taught English to reduce segregation between different linguistic communities and even limit the lure of extremism.
Most of us who have tried it probably feel that learning a new language is difficult, even if that new language is similar to our own. So how difficult is it to learn English and especially if your first language is quite different?
The difficulty of learning a new language will depend on how similar that language is to one you already know. Despite English speakers often rating certain languages as being particularly difficult – languages such as French, which indicate the gender of nouns with articles like le and la, and the Chinese writing system – there are similarities between these languages. More...

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