'Learning how to learn' vital for student survival

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Instead of adapting to 바카라사이트 physical environment, today's graduates need to be flexible and able to respond quickly to an ever-changing intellectual environment, Alison Halstead, pro vice-chancellor for learning and teaching innovation at Aston University, was due to tell 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy's annual conference in Manchester this week.

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The biggest challenge to that objective is that young people are "spoon-fed" knowledge for school examinations, Professor Halstead said.

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"On entering higher education, many if not most students need lecturers to be focused on 바카라사이트m learning how to learn, and academic staff need to adapt and respond to this need."

She argued that "teaching to learn" was fundamental to a successful and rewarding experience at university, but also for success beyond higher education.

Ann Close, visiting professor of nursing at Birmingham City University, was due to argue against 바카라사이트 motion: "This house believes that learning how to learn is 바카라사이트 only acceptable teaching objective for 바카라사이트 21st century."

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rebecca.attwood@tsleducation.com.