Which differences and similarities may you identify between educational practices in India and the IRGS programme, which was established through fruitful cooperation with the University of London?
That’s a very interesting question. When I saw the course structure and when I was explained how the course works, I thought it was very similar. Even though I am talking about my master’s experience and now I teach bachelor’s students, nevertheless the way it is taught is very similar. So we have the same procedure of having readings at the beginning given to us.
And then the something that teachers would give
the lectures, but we were supposed to do the readings in advance. And that is something very similar that I find here, namely that you have a set of readings, you teach honduras phone number library them and later on in the seminars we discuss them with students. So I thought that idea is very similar.
Talking about differences, I am not entirely sure about that either. I have not found any great differences in how we do it. The one difference that I do see is the focus on a sim card with a 06 number seminars. I think this is more of a Western concept. For instance, in my Indian university we did not have separate seminar classes. Thus, that is one difference that I do see. But it is possible that now there are more private universities that have also come up in India. And maybe they are implementing this kind of system of lectures and seminars. But when I was studying, the seminar part was not there in my education.
I think what did surprise me
after seeing the course schedule that I am teaching is that it is very, very intensive. The list of readings is very comprehensive and, more broadly, it is a very well-structured course, but be numbers it is also very rigorous. And it is impressive that bachelor students have the list of readings of such a high level. Generally, I was very impressed with the high level of preparation of students here, because the course itself is really intensive.
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