"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think," said Socrates in a statement that might describe the university tutorial today. Students need contact time with lecturers to develop ...

At the start of tutorial, tutors should outline the general structure and flow, giving students have a better sense of what they will be doing and the approximate timing. For each task and activity, ...

Juliehenry 29 November 2009 • 8:00am Oxford University said it will require an alternative source of cash to continue its tutorial system Credit: Photo: IAN JONES Cash to higher education will be ...

The union that represents teaching assistants at Canada’s biggest school, the University of Toronto, wants the public to know about the ballooning student-instructor ratios in the tutorials and labs ...