NEWS
Student perspectives and strategies for moving forward with Online Learning and Teaching at Westminster
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented with many challenges for students and staff working in Higher Education. Whilst some of the challenges may be
Partnership mindset outside the student partnership projects and into other aspects of daily life
Dr. Lucy Mercer-Mapstone facilitated a workshop and discussion on how we can develop an inclusive partnership mindset to use not only in our
Co-liberation, anyone?
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively
EVENTS
LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Celebrating Multilingualism at Westminster
Did you know that in 2021/22, there were 350,325 international students pursuing degrees in the UK according to the Higher Education Student Statistics (HESA)? Surprisingly, international students represented 22% of the total student population in the whole country (Universities UK).
Enhancing student group work
Students have a love-hate relationship with group work in the classroom. Many recognise that they can learn from their fellow students and that the quality of the work they create together is higher than the work they can produce individually.
Even better than the real thing? What’s the point of authentic learning?
“Authentic learning is a sham,” an experienced academic colleague tells me. “How can we pretend that what happens in my class, and what happens within a university generally, isn’t real life in some way?