Perspectives on student expertise

“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher”, so writes the Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe.

The Nobel-Prize winning writer comments on the nature and expression of what it means to be human, in social, … Continue reading...

Getting more out of the QAA

Most staff will be familiar with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and its remit to advise the Office for Students (OfS) and enhance standards for the higher education sector. Did you know that their resources are accessible to everyone at … Continue reading...

Bristol PLUS Award Team

Education and Student Experience, Careers Service

Amber Rose Pinckney, Emelyn Tan, Martha Cooper-Thorne

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The Bristol Plus Award team worked with staffs to provide great help to students. They are

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Emma Giddings

Faculty Timetabling & Education Officer in Education and Student Experience, Examinations, Timetabling and Graduation Team

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Emma, quite simply, goes above and beyond to make our teaching happen in Engineering.

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Swimming against the research current

A scandal ripped through the higher education sector recently as the public statements of Researchfish were held accountable by researchers across the UK. If you haven’t heard of Researchfish, it’s an American-owned company contracted by the UKRI to data capture … Continue reading...

For research-richer or poorer

Bristol is a research-led university, and our Education Strategy positions us in terms of a research-rich curriculum. Within and far beyond the institution, research-led terms are seen as both engaging and problematic. As we embark on emboldening what Bristol means … Continue reading...

What’s past (and present) is prologue: considering changes to secondary assessment  

In secondary schools in England at the moment, students are preparing for public examinations which may represent the final assessment adaptations to Covid-19.  

Undergraduates who have studied in the UK and are now in their first and second years may … Continue reading...

Are student researchers ethical?

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The third edition of the Student Research Journal is in the works! The University of Bristol has many students that put out insightful research, and of course, with research, comes concerns over ethics. I interviewed three … Continue reading...

Transformational Learning Hackathon December 2021

Hackathons are events in which participants are asked a question, or given a problem, and have a limited amount of time to find a solution. Most commonly used in engineering disciplines, participants are put into groups and work together to … Continue reading...

Flipped classes with peer marking – Turnitin PeerMark instructions

Dr Rabeya Khatoon, Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics goes through each step of setting up Turnitin PeerMark.

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