New website Today we unleash our new website upon an unsuspecting world! And will wait with excitement for seismic reactions across the globe. To be a little more serious, we have spent much of the summer thinking about our logo and our website and how we want them to represent us and what we do.ContinueContinue reading “New website, new academic year and National Read a Book Day”
Category Archives: Students
Helping graduates to be workplace-ready in a constantly changing world (2/2)
An interview with Fiona Greig [you can read the first part of the interview here] The true nature of education To do well in a traditional exam implies having a good memory, but this does not equate with intelligence, skills, or the acquisition of a true education. True education means introducing someone to a conceptContinueContinue reading “Helping graduates to be workplace-ready in a constantly changing world (2/2)”
Helping graduates to be workplace-ready in a constantly changing world (1/2)
An interview with Fiona Greig Fiona Greig is Director of Knowledge & Digital Services at the University of Winchester. We are fortunate in being able to count her as a long-time colleague of Gold Leaf and we are grateful often to have benefited from her insights and innovative ideas. In this post she shares herContinueContinue reading “Helping graduates to be workplace-ready in a constantly changing world (1/2)”
OfS Blended learning review
This summer the Office for Students [OfS] commissioned a review of blended learning aimed at supporting the English HE sector’s understanding of how blended learning approaches might relate to the OfS’s Conditions B2 and B3, both of which concern the quality of education provided in any manner or form by or on behalf of aContinueContinue reading “OfS Blended learning review“
Student Angst – Five questions for today’s students
As this year’s successful A Level students prepare for university and second- and third-year undergraduates get ready to return, they have much to contend with that disturbed previous student cohorts either less or not at all. Here are 5 questions they need to address. 1. What is normal? Most of us can remember the excitementContinueContinue reading “Student Angst – Five questions for today’s students”
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