Explainers – George Ward

Take Home Exams: What are they like?

I sat my Politics, Law and Ethics exam this week. But from home. What was it like? At 11 o’clock this Tuesday, my Politics, Law and Ethics exam paper became available on Blackboard to complete. I should have been sitting it in an exam hall, with two hours to complete it, but instead, due toContinue reading “Take Home Exams: What are they like?”

Is University getting harder?

Data acquired from a Freedom of Information request shows that over the past four years shows that courses provided by Canterbury Christchurch University are getting much harder each year. In 2015, 83 students were not allowed to progress due to academic failure, rising to 181 in 2016 and it rose even more to 238 inContinue reading “Is University getting harder?”