Students swap lectures for pub in week of innovation

Published on Friday 17 February 2012 00:00

A LEADING Scottish university is to abandon lectures and tutorials in an experimental exploration of new teaching methods.

Edinburgh University will suspend normal teaching for a week, with classes replaced by student workshops, film screenings, museum visits, meditation sessions and even trips to the pub.

It hopes its first Innovative Learning Week, which runs from 20-24 February, will allow students to develop new skills and prepare for employment.

Dr Sue Rigby, assistant principal of taught postgraduate programmes, said: “We talked to our alumni and the one thing we found out about graduates entering employment was that many of them lacked confidence and familiarity with the workplace.

“Innovative Learning Week is a way of tackling that as well as helping create a greater sense of community among our 28,000 students.

“We are the first university in the UK to do this, and while some of it will just be for fun, much of it will have a much deeper purpose.”

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themanwith2brains

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 07:29 AM

what he reallt means is , half the students have packed in their courses and now have broods of kids and the rest of the skint students are never oot the pub.

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antiparasite

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 12:45 AM

Meditation then on the drink, yin yang.......

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