When people ask me if I am a teacher, I proudly answer yes and their faces light up—probably because almost everyone has had a teacher who made a difference in their lives. When people ask where I teach, I reluctantly say at a college and, more reluctantly, at a law school. You see, sadly, people […] … learn more→
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What do diverse college academics do? Maybe make quilts…
Gender issues: brand new year, same old problems
I spent some of my time off around New Year attempting to start as I mean to go on by tidying my “home office”. In the run-up to Christmas, as exhaustion took over and time ran out, I had increasingly just been dumping piles of paper precariously on the edge of my desk as I […] … learn more→
Seven ways education needs to change in 2017
When James Callaghan, then UK prime minister, launched his great debate on education at Ruskin College Oxford in 1976, the content and role of education became a hotly contested subject. Schools today, however, are now less concerned with education, and more with how social engineering can achieve a variety of external goals external. The legacy […] … learn more→
2017 – the year of the ‘to do’ list
Social media folk delight in discussing the organisation of academic work. How to manage time. How to organise all that information that comes in and out. How to sort and select tasks in order of their urgency and importance. How to manage various kinds of analysis. Now don’t get me wrong – I think all […] … learn more→
The UK higher education system works. So why overhaul it?
With Britain set on a course to leave the European Union, many are worried about the prospects for the economy. The UK’s government has taken steps to reassure the car industry that Britain is a safe place to invest after Brexit. And so it should. But there is one area in which the UK is […] … learn more→
Things you were taught at school that are wrong
Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with “And” or “But”? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we’ve probably been getting wrong in our English classrooms for years? How did grammar rules come about? To understand why […] … learn more→
