Monthly Archives: May 2020

The potential and pitfalls of putting the ‘university experience’ online

  • Posted by jennie
  • Posted on May 20, 2020
  • Education
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Way before the upheaval of the COVID-19 crisis, universities were gradually moving some teaching activities online. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) such as Moodle or Blackboard are well-established for providing access to course materials, including readings and lecture slides, and the submission and marking of student coursework. More recently, a head of steam has developed around […]

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Our kids have simply been cut adrift by school closures – with devastating consequences for their education

  • Posted by jennie
  • Posted on May 16, 2020
  • Coronavirus crisis
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My teenage daughters are in Years 9 and 11. In normal circumstances, the younger of the two would be laying the foundations for her GCSE exams – the backbone of any pupil’s plans for the future. My eldest, meanwhile, would be about to sit them. Yet neither of my daughters has stepped past the school […]

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We don’t need a lockdown to enforce good behaviour

  • Posted by jennie
  • Posted on May 8, 2020
  • Coronavirus crisis
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The public has internalised the spirit of the rules. Now we must be free to find our way out of this. Widely reported research from King’s College London suggests that 48 per cent of people can be characterised as ‘accepting’ of lockdown (following the rules and coping reasonably well), while 44 per cent are ‘struggling’ […]

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