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We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things

We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things

Compulsory tests, essays, regular grades and timed exams are considered a given in university life. But the Universities Accord should change this. Rigid, traditional assessments need to make way for a more flexible, personalised way of working out what students know and can do. The current system is not only vulnerable to cheating, it also disadvantages those […]…