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...becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. (Freire, 1970, p. 53) With this view, the teacher’s pedagogical role is: to ‘fill’ the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. (Freire, 1970, p. 57) The potential consequences for children’s...

...students, rather than institutions and educators. Data about the gap refers to students obtaining ‘good’ classifications in their degrees, either firsts or seconds. According to Advance HE (2020), in the 2019/20 academic year, the proportion of white students who graduated with a first or upper second-class degree was significantly higher than their black counter...

...students have said they gained from studying their MA: "This is my third Masters but, despite now having a young family, this is the one I have worked the hardest at and am getting the most out of. In particular, this is the only one which has really helped me gain the skills of analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." -...

...OU degree, found some to support her during her studies and others just for the fun of learning (and improving her quizzing skills!), as she explains...[OpenLearn case study user Charity Reed] ‘I’ve loved discovering OpenLearn,’ Charity told us, ‘I genuinely don’t think I’ll ever not use OpenLearn if I’m honest.’ For Charity, her OpenLearn discovery began...

...students. This provides two challenges for learners. They either need to fully understand or They need to be able to ask questions to understand. Lack of understanding could be the result of two factors. It could be that the learner has not understood the idea or it could be due to a lack of understanding the language used to express the idea. In both cases, the learner...