Finger on pulse of teaching skill

Article Abstract:

Lancaster University recently ran a short course which was aimed at introducing basic teaching skills to postgraduates and young lecturers. As universities come under greater commercial pressure, academics must teach students to learn independently, and this requires a new approach to teaching. The emphasis is now being placed on learning in small groups, although instruction is still given in how to handle large lectures.

Methods, Lectures and lecturing, Lectures

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Romance is but a fiction

Article Abstract:

Many leading feminists were detractors of romantic novels, saying that they prevented women from liberating themselves. Sales of books from Mills and Boon, the UK romantic fiction publishers, are estimated to have tripled during the heyday of feminist writing. Women are said to enjoy this type of writing because they like to have feelings expressed, in everyday life as well as in a book.

Analysis, Romanticism

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The men with their fingers on the pulse

Article Abstract:

Nursing is attracting increasing numbers of men in England, with numbers of graduate students taking up nursing courses on the increase.

United Kingdom, Nursing, College admissions, Nursing schools

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