Education + Training: Volume 40 Issue 2

Cutting the cord: student‐led discussion groups in higher education

John Kremer, Carol McGuinness

As the world of higher education has become increasingly sensitive to employers’ needs so attention has focused on the development of skills and competences which will equip…

Employability or learning? Groupwork in higher education

Alistair Mutch

An evaluation of the use of learning sets, supported by an electronic mailing list, on a level 2 research module on a Business Information Systems undergraduate degree, raises…

Restraining the further education market: closing Pandora’s box

Jacky Lumby

There has been growing concern that the market‐dominated practice of colleges of further education in England has led to a situation where colleges compete aggressively to the…

Engineering through education

Angela Lilley

Reports on an inter‐active seminar regarding the enhancement of engineering education in the classroom and beyond. Summarises presentations by representatives from schools…

The success of teacher‐pupil mentoring in raising standards of achievement

Ian Hylan, Keith Postlethwaite

This article describes a pilot mentoring scheme, Raising Pupil Achievement (RPA), that has been developed in a girls’ secondary school. The principal aim of this scheme was to…