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Monthly Archives: January 2018
The oracles Season3
On February 7th will biORAKEL start again at the Department of Biological Sciences (BIO). This will be its third semester of existence, and it is looking like a very promising season for the student-driven project funded by bioCEED. No less than 12 oracles have been recruited this semester. They will work in teams of 4, with broad…
Are the teachers actually so negative towards their students’ qualifications?
On January 10th, NOKUT launched a report based on the Teacher Survey (Underviserundersøkelsen), which received much attention in national media. From headlines in newspapers and other media we were led to believe that a large part of teachers were particularly dissatisfied with the qualifications students entering their programs had to show for themselves. But is…
Welcome to new student representatives at UNIS
We are happy to say welcome to our new student representatives at UNIS – Henninge and Jenny! They will join us in the bioCEED team for one semester and will be responsible among other things for arranging the bioCEED student meetings and running the bioBREAKFAST. Henninge is a biology student at bachelor level from NTNU…
On bananas and writing skills among biology students
Writing skills among young biology students is often a subject for debates and discussions. The course BIO103 taught at the Department of Biological Sciences, UiB deals with this issue by offering a short series of colloquia aiming at giving bachelor students skills in reading scientific articles, and writing better lab reports and journals. A few…
ISSOTL18 – Call for proposals
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will advance the future of higher…