Category: TIPS

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications. My colleague Nathalie is a teacher at a horticultural and landscape gardening training college. On her courses, outdoor study is just as important as classroom-based learning. Plant observation is one of the most important skills her students have to develop: observing, comparing, recording changes and differences, reproducing and putting them together.

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When you’re a lecturer how do you go about marking your students’ papers as and when you like, including while on the train, while spending a weekend at your parents-in-law or while sat in the car waiting to pick up your kids, and then securely archiving the papers?

By Marie-Christine Lefebvre, Lecturer in Communications When organising training sessions on neuroscience, I use mind maps as an educational tool with the trainees. This visual method of organising information provides a means of structuring a concept by showing the relationships among pieces of the whole. It improves memorisation.

Every minute of a manager’s day is precious! Ideally, to avoid wasting a moment and to actually save time, you should be able to trust your staff. The key word is delegation!

How many times have you left the office and thought “Blast, it went clean out of my mind that I had to phone Mr so-and-so today” or “Drat, I was supposed to send that email to my colleague without fail”? In situations like these, you need a To-Do list, a useful tool for organising your work and being more effective!