At the end of September a new partnership between the University of Glasgow and Place2be was established with the overarching goal of developing mentally healthy classrooms and schools. Place2be is the UK’s largest children’s in-school mental health provider who support…
Category: Student Experience
“The Religious Safari” – an example of active, co-operative, interdisciplinary and outdoor enquiry-based learning.
What?! All of those things at once? Surely there must be some mistake? And what is a “religious safari” anyway? Are you off hunting for religious people, and bringing them back to mount as trophies on some ghastly wall? Of course not. The…
STEM outreach – Is enthusiasm, expertise or collaboration key?
When the president of the Engineers Without Borders student society at the University of Glasgow approached the School of Education to support them in developing a resource for a STEM outreach project in local secondary schools, a new collaboration was…
Internationalisation and Education, is it becoming more of a dream than a reality?
Although the impact of internationalisation through students’ mobility has several benefits at multiple levels and is very complex, it was clear to us, that for many, the chance of exploring and experiencing different cultures, foods, religions, and the social interaction with students from other countries risked becoming a distant memory or even an impossible dream. Yet in the age of technology where distance and digital learning managed to support Education through a global pandemic, it was important to build on the good practice to create alternatives to mobility opportunities such as the Erasmus Mundus project.