Key terms:
Disolution of Parliament
A constituency with a Party with 10 000 votes clear of the competitors - safe seat.
Small majority - a marginal
Advantages of First Past the Post:
Key Elections:
1945 Atlee takes over from Churchill - Six years of setting up the Welfare State
1979 Thatcher (The Iron Lady) Privatisation, breaking the unions, lower taxation
1997 New Labour - After 18 years of the cons UK wanted a change. Landslide. Even at its most popular New Labour only enjoyed 43% of votes cast.
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Sunday, 22 August 2010
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Key Points of Interest from the LTUC Project 2012: The Prospectus
Formal transmissive lectures are increasingly replaced by active, problem-based learning through seminars; lecture theatres have interactive technology; powerpoint is used sparingly and combined with video on the web; classrooms are less crowded and have much more flexible furniture.
Use of moodle is standard and increasingly interactive and imaginative; it is more normal to use multi-media authoring software as write a lecture for transmission of information.
Forms of assessment are designed for learning and for development of future professional skills, such as presentations and printed posters.
There are fewer assignments – reducing marking loads but engendering higher performance because they are more challenging and higher stakes - although there are opportunities to practise, make mistakes and gain formative feedback.
• Students need to be doing much more rather than the emphasis on the lecturer goldplating “delivery”.
• But challenge is hard to sell when evaluated by students preferring comfort zones
• We must not reinforce passive behaviours, perhaps carried over from school.
• Graduateness is a kind of charter of certified qualities in the learner - rather than charter of provision and delivery.
The following text is adapted from a section in the prospectus for Lancaster University.
"The fundamental element of study in higher education is your individual reading and research; formal contact time with lecturers and fellow students is designed to guide, consolidate, apply, practise and test out your understanding gained through private study".
and...
"Formal lectures are diminishing in frequency and significance; powerpoint slides crowded with text to copy are being hunted to extinction. You will spend much more effective time accessing online materials on our virtual learning environment (moodle)".
The sheer neuro-physiological inefficiency of learning from lectures is well shown in What’s The Use of Lectures [Bligh, Intellect Books, 2004]
“The formal lecture is a refuge for the faint-hearted, both lecturer and students. It keeps the channels of communications closed, freezes hierarchy between lecturer and students and removes any responsibility on the student to respond..." Barnett, R [1999] Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity. SRHE/OUP
Use of moodle is standard and increasingly interactive and imaginative; it is more normal to use multi-media authoring software as write a lecture for transmission of information.
Forms of assessment are designed for learning and for development of future professional skills, such as presentations and printed posters.
There are fewer assignments – reducing marking loads but engendering higher performance because they are more challenging and higher stakes - although there are opportunities to practise, make mistakes and gain formative feedback.
• Students need to be doing much more rather than the emphasis on the lecturer goldplating “delivery”.
• But challenge is hard to sell when evaluated by students preferring comfort zones
• We must not reinforce passive behaviours, perhaps carried over from school.
• Graduateness is a kind of charter of certified qualities in the learner - rather than charter of provision and delivery.
The following text is adapted from a section in the prospectus for Lancaster University.
"The fundamental element of study in higher education is your individual reading and research; formal contact time with lecturers and fellow students is designed to guide, consolidate, apply, practise and test out your understanding gained through private study".
and...
"Formal lectures are diminishing in frequency and significance; powerpoint slides crowded with text to copy are being hunted to extinction. You will spend much more effective time accessing online materials on our virtual learning environment (moodle)".
The sheer neuro-physiological inefficiency of learning from lectures is well shown in What’s The Use of Lectures [Bligh, Intellect Books, 2004]
“The formal lecture is a refuge for the faint-hearted, both lecturer and students. It keeps the channels of communications closed, freezes hierarchy between lecturer and students and removes any responsibility on the student to respond..." Barnett, R [1999] Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity. SRHE/OUP
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