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Targets make our kids go from Bard to worse

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the educational assessment system in the United Kingdom and how it is actually damaging the intellectual abilities and lowering the levels of creativity of those that are subjected to it. It is argued that it is essential that creative thinking skills should be given at least as important a place in the school curriculum as numeracy and spelling, and that if this does not happen university lecturers will be having to work with their students to develop their creative and intellectual skills to the level required of them for university study.

Influence, Students, Educational aspects

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'I was, and am, utterly bemused by Oxbridge's arrogant belief that abandoning exams for interviews meant they would be "fair" to everyone'

Article Abstract:

The flawed process of interviews, which carries with it the prejudices of the person conducting the interview, is no substitute for the process of public examinations based on strict criteria. It is argued that personal judgements are not the way that high-stakes decisions about a person's future should be made, and that while there is a place for other forms of assessment of an individual's abilities, such as coursework and oral examinations, strictly supervised public examinations are still the best method of determining true ability.

Interviews

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Viva the mock! It's more than a rehearsal

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the importance of the mock vivas that PhD students and their supervisors go through and the relation that they play to the real event. Students need to understand that the mock is not the real thing and use the it to refine their thesis while supervisors need to learn how to maximise the benefits that the mock can have for the student.

Usage, Universities and colleges, Graduate study

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