RoPeCast Folgen

You probably remember our Christmas specials about holiday traditions and music from the past years. This December we thought we\'d make music our topic again (this time as a regular episode) with a focus on some music vocabulary. Peter\'s guest today is Saul Rubin, a renowned Jazz guitar player from New York. Saul tells Peter about the special feature of his guitar. Please note: We recommend watching this episode as vidcast. See the YouTube link on the right.

Roger and Neil continue their discussion of the \"Teaching Excellence Framework\" that has been established in England and Wales to judge the quality of teaching in higher education. Neil illustrates how increasing competition between education institutions can turn out rather problematic, and Roger adds how he thinks it unlikely that something similar could be established in Germany.

Roger is talking to his brother Neil, who\'s back for another episode. This time they look into ways of measuring the quality of university teaching, the approach taken in the UK and potential problems affecting the \"measuring process\". Can the results of such an inquiry really be unbiased? The TEF project Read up here on the TEF, the \"Teaching Excellence Framework\" currently being established in the UK