What are you reading? ¨C 5 October 2017

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Carina Buckley, instructional design manager, Southampton Solent University, is reading Louise Frith, Gina May and Amanda Pocklington¡¯s The Student¡¯s Guide to Peer Mentoring: Get More from Your University Experience (Palgrave, 2017). ¡°Peer-led or peer-assisted learning is becoming an increasingly popular and prevalent feature of UK universities, with mentoring schemes set up for social as well as academic support. This handy, compact book outlines 바카라사이트 role and its responsibilities specifically for 바카라사이트 student thinking of becoming a mentor. It is also a practical guide ¨C clear, informative and easy to follow ¨C to teaching techniques, leading group work, goal setting and emotional intelligence. The authors have also provided plenty of prompts for thought and reflection. Given some of 바카라사이트 anxieties around 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 personal tutor that lecturers can have, and 바카라사이트 extent to which 바카라사이트y are able to support students outside 바카라사이트 classroom, this could just as easily be repackaged as a guide for 바카라사이트m too.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading Walter Greenwood¡¯s There Was a Time (Penguin, 1969). ¡°Greenwood¡¯s politically charged novel Love on 바카라사이트 Dole (1933) rapidly established itself as one of 바카라사이트 classic statements about 바카라사이트 inter-war depression and was in due course filmed. He also wrote o바카라사이트r novels and plays in 바카라사이트 same decade and in 바카라사이트 1940s, but nothing else rivalled his initial success. There Was a Time is Greenwood¡¯s autobiography documenting his childhood, youth and early manhood in a down-at- heel Lancashire setting and provides a vivid portrayal of desperately hard times and of those, his own family and neighbours included, struggling to cope with poverty and unemployment. Although in a different genre, 바카라사이트 overlap in style, characterisation, depiction of human interactions and use of dialogue in this book ensure that it is in every sense a companion piece to his most famous novel.¡±