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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Maw, Stephen J.; Mauchline, Alice L.; Park, Julian R. – Bioscience Education, 2011
Fieldwork is regarded as an important component of many bioscience degree programmes. QAA benchmarks statements refer explicitly to the importance of fieldwork, although give no indication of amounts of field provision expected. Previous research has highlighted the importance of fieldwork to the learning of both subject-specific and transferable…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Field Studies, College Science, Undergraduate Study
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Scott, Jon; Maw, Stephen J. – Bioscience Education, 2009
There has been much recent interest in the extent to which the teaching in higher education delivered by non-academic staff has increased in the recent past. Within the Biosciences there has always been a tradition of engaging postgraduate students to support the delivery of some forms of teaching. In this paper we report on the findings of a…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Student Role, Biology
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Willmott, Christopher J. R.; Bond, Andrew N.; Bryant, John A.; Maw, Stephen J.; Sears, Heather J.; Wilson, Jackie M. – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2004
A survey has been carried out to investigate the provision of ethics teaching to students following Bioscience programmes at UK Universities. We report that 69% of undergraduate programmes described by respondents included an ethical component, although it may not be appropriate to extrapolate this value nationally. When ethics is taught, it is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Ethics, Instruction