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Tag Archives: university

Linguistic policing, lost marks and learning outcomes: controversy on the British university campus

April 2, 2017

An article appeared in The Guardian today suggesting that students in British universities are being subjected to linguistic policing, and threatened …

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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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University Isn’t For Men?

February 11, 2016

Attempts to combat violent misogyny in British universities are putting men off going to uni. That’s the basic message of …

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Speak Its Name, by Kathleen Jowitt

February 5, 2016

“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …

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Right Here, Right Now: Lecturing and Presence

December 14, 2015

One of the real advantages of a lecture is that the person giving it is present. A low bar, you …

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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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November 19th, Actually: International Men’s Day

November 22, 2015

International Men’s Day took place this last week.  It’s the 19th of November, a date more usually known on Twitter …

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The Satisfactions of a Tipsy Orchard Pig: On Academic Autumn

November 7, 2015

Autumn is more or less over; the rain is getting colder and more consistent, the mists are rather more serious …

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Knee Socks and Libraries: The Sexualisation of Educated Women

September 10, 2015

The academic year is about to start in earnest, and along with all the lecture schedules, seminar timetables and module …

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

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