Student Voice - Science topic

Building Neurodiversity-Inclusive Postsecondary Campuses: Recommendations for Leaders in Higher Education | Autism in Adulthood (liebertpub.com)

Thanks Daniel - can you send me an e-mail address for you please? - for the mailing list. My e-mail is r.holdsworth@unimelb.edu.au

 Buenas tardes, Manuel!

Creo que este problema puede ser manejado por dos aspectos con los que trabajo: la ética y los medios de comunicación. Si usted quiere podemos hablar por correo electrónico? El mío es alzira.pimenta@gmail.com.

saludos

One comment I would make is that without education, business activity would soon degrade and even disappear. Especially in the new global economy, where people compete more than they used to. As the older workers in a country's economy retire, if qualified younger workers are not in the pipeline, you have a problem.

But your question seems to also ask about cost of education? Cost becomes too high for the average person?

I think the answer to that question has to do with the structure of the "education industry," compared with many other industries that make up the country's economy. Education remains mostly as labor-intensive as it has always been. Many other segments of the economy are not. They have gradually been increasing "productivity," by exploiting new technologies. Education has perhaps not been exploiting new technologies specifically to reduce their labor costs, as much as other industries.

There are new schemes starting to make headway, such as online courses and online degrees. This might help keep costs in check. Government subsidies sort of solve the problem, but the government has to raise taxes for that to be viable. So that drags down the economy, to an extent.

I think the medical industry has much the same problem. There too, new technologies have definitely been exploited to improve medical care, but not so much to reduce costs (labor, mostly). So medical costs also keep rising. Especially medical costs for procedures that require much labor. (Some procedures, such as blood tests, have probably benefitted more than others. It doesn't even take a visit to the doctor's office to get some blood tests done, these days. Just mail the specimen to a lab.)

In the UK students are (legally) consumers and have recourse to consumer laws. There is evidence that they are more likely to complain - but perhaps not that the complaints are more likely to be upheld (see link).

Sergio:

The students' voices in my research indicated that much cultural insensitivity in teaching occurred in a graduate program. In my subsequent writings, I highlighted how ICT integration can be culturally responsive in teaching to enhance students' learning effectiveness. My other uses of  ICT to enhance student learning were in the form of discussion forums for debating and social media (Facebook) to develop their critical thinking and communication skills (to include writing and speaking English). I hope the attached are useful to you inquiry.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Debra

I think the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (SEQ-C) will be helpful to you.

The link of the questionnaire/file is listed below-

Once we were all students. We knew the loopholes in our teachers efficiency and teaching and the curriculum. let the children be asked to take a project on this subject and their findings will really be of immense help.

Hi, Valentina,

found very usefull to "listen" and read students writen reports, reflections. From these reports I found what they really need to learn and what they would like to learn. Students were asked to write about it.

We also ask students at the end of the last year to answer some questions. Their representatives collect their answers. They were were good at that. Facebook was the best tool to do this. And students felt comfortable with that. They gave us very important answers and we incorporated their suggestions when we made curricular reform, at the end of the year.

Simply, we also have to listen students in everyday life, too. It is good to "listen" with many different tools (facebook, questionars, reports, moodle...).  

Best wishes,

Sonja

Dear Nasser, I agree with Janina, we do have at Copernicus University chosen students as representative on faculty boards. They are participating and voting during monthly meetings. There are also students as representatives on the university level, participating in meetings of the Senate of NCU.