It is an understatement to say that higher education in England is in a tremendous state of flux at the moment. With the rise in fees, some universities are moving towards offering a complete student experience. Regardless of how this ideology is implemented, I feel that such a shift is bound to have an impact on the way students perceive their role in what should be a mutually beneficial relationship between themselves and the academic staff. For instance, if universities are viewed solely as service provides the resultant expectations are bound to have serious consequences.
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A case for digital literacy in schools
By gopaldass on February 16, 2011
I have been working with primary and secondary schools in North Yorkshire for close to a year, and if you asked me to describe the different routes to receiving a qualification, I wouldn’t have a clue where to begin. This is not a sweeping criticism of an institution that I have had limited engagement with and am definitely not qualified to pass judgement on. However, I feel that in the process of trying to provide choice to make education more inclusive, the system has become very complicated. And one of the repercussions of this approach is that students are being placed under categories (or clubbed into groups) that can be very damaging. This blog post is based on a first hand experience from a couple of months ago.
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