Archive for: October 2007

I have been playing around with Yahoo pipes for a while - a web service that lets you aggregate, filter, sort and broadcast RSS feeds. I think this is a great tool that ’should’ be more popular than it …

David Eastwood on widening university access: If the students will not come to us, we must find ways of going to them, says David Eastwood. (Via Education Guardian, Tuesday October 23, 2007).

The Four Cities report provides …

‘Inherently frail’ - the verdict on marking:

“Call for debate as lack of consistency in assessment attracts warning of student litigation. Rebecca Attwood reports. Lecturers’ marking of student work is “inherently frail” and assessment procedures would struggle …

A Times Higher article about developments Gloucestershire University, 19 October 2007.

I have posted the encouraging news from Gloucester further down this post, but I wanted to challenge the reported position taken by Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at …

From the BBC “Degrees ’should give more detail Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 12:13 GMT 13:13 UK

“…an inquiry conducted by university leaders says it has not found any better degree classification system.

So grades such as first class, 2:1 and …

Unless we can imagine a better name soon, the work that Richard Millwood, Mark Johnson and I are undertaking for the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) at the University of Bolton will be branded as the IDIBL project. …