“1 student recently came to me during a break in one of my Project Management classes to tell me that he found the subject ‘boring’. At least the student was honest – his body language throughout class suggested that he would rather be anywhere else than at my lecture …” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 6 March]
“The National College of Ireland ad running on television turns my stomach. It epitomises the selfishness, self-centredness and greed at the heart of modern Ireland. It involves students all listing what they as individuals want for themselves, with no sense of concern for what they can give, or what the community needs …” (discussion thread)
[Politics.ie, 14 August]
“At a colloquium in Edinburgh University on this particular topic as part of QAA Scotland’s new set of Enhancement Themes. An interesting range of presentations and some discussion, but interesting to see that there is little student voice in this. Or indeed even recent graduates. The idea that students’ expectations of what the ‘university experience’ is about doesn’t fit with either that of academics or indeed employers or the state was raised and it is an important point …” (more)
[Summa cum laude, 11 May]
