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Tag Archives: students

Thinking In Front Of You: Lecturing and Research

March 9, 2016

I’ve been writing some pieces recently about the value of lectures in higher education, and trying to articulate why I …

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Students As Consumers: A Serious Mistake

February 18, 2016

Students with a “consumer mindset” achieve lower grades, according to a paper published recently in Studies in Higher Education. The …

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In Defence of the Lecture: Bad Reasons

December 11, 2015

The lecture seems rather under attack at the moment. For good reasons, a model of education in which one person …

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My Students Are Not Customers

February 21, 2015

We have to acknowledge that students are customers and we have to meet customer expectations. To do that, we have …

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Student Bloggers – I Want To Hear From You!

December 26, 2013

Are you a student who blogs?  I’m putting together a piece – or maybe a series – on student bloggers, …

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“I didn’t come to university to study this!” – Students and the Language of Choice

October 26, 2013

“I didn’t come to university to study this!”  I’ve heard that phrase a fair few times over the last ten …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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