The future of South African tertiary education?
Increasing numbers of students arrive at university, only to find that they don’t have the basic skills they need. Numeracy is the issue most often identified here, but the problem is deeper than that, and relates to most forms of critical engagement with any type of data.
Carte Blanche, 15 March
The insert on Sax Appeal and it’s “blasphemy” aired tonight, and even though the show did its best to not offend the fragile, that hasn’t stopped some ranting from occuring – I suppose simply because thinking seems the last thing on some people’s minds in cases like this. See some choice mindless reactions from viewers at Carte Blache’s site.
If students are customers, why don’t they do their research?
A discussion I have each semester with new students is whether they consider themselves to be customers or not. The distinction I’m trying to get them to grapple with is that as students, they are…
Teaching EBMgt: developing better managers, or educating critical thinkers?
On the Facebook group Evidence-Based Management, Laura Guerrero asks: In terms of the big picture, I wonder what people think in terms of why we ought to teach using EBMgt. I hear people talk about…
