Archive for November 28th, 2017
All schools in the State will soon have to draw up customised school disaster management plans for the event of a natural or man-made disaster. The National Disaster Management Authority has come up with guidelines for the School Safety Policy. To help spread awareness about this and to ensure that...
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November 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback practices largely unsustainable, de-motivating and without opportunity for improvement. Researchers generally describe current feedback practices as lacking in detail, difficult to...
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November 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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Scandals aren’t meant to happen in British universities. Parliament, tabloid newsrooms, the City … those we expect to spew out sleaze. Not the gown-wearing, exam-sitting, quiet-in-the-library surrounds of higher education. Yet we should all be scandalised by what is happening in academia. It is a tale of vast...
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November 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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