Category Archives: Higher education

Confounding Confusion

According to the Professor Deputy Commissar in the senior wing of the education kremlin, the junior wing’s diploma programme is “slightly schizophrenic” as between academic and “work based learning”. “We are educating . . the masses for . . competences … Continue reading

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Mr Bean logs on

As the Open University enters its fifth decade, it has just appointed its fifth vice-chancellor – a computer wizard called Mr Bean. Continue reading

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