Students interviewed on Radio 4's The Learning Curve
Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2007
Second year A-level students explain their Extended Projects on national radio.
Click here to download the radio interview (9mb mp3).
Six students from the College were interviewed on Radio 4 when national broadcaster Libby Purves featured their Extended Projects on her programme, The Learing Curve, on Monday 7 May 2007(repeated Sunday 13 May, 11pm). Gemma and Natalie Bell, Nick Coxon, Rebecca Cuthbertson, Scott Hooker, Bhavik Short, and Marie-Claire Thomas, explained their projects, the processes and the difficulties of their research, the pressures and the pleasures of study, and their thinking on assessment.
Interviewed in the studio, College Principal, Dr John Guy, said, "We are all enormously proud of the achievements of the students and by the quality of their dissertations of which many undergraduates would be proud".
Libby Purves said, "You are doing university tutors an enormous favour by preparing their future students in this way".
The College undertook the Extended Projects to set a national lead in the assessment process post-16, and to encourage stretch and challenge. 70 students were presented with certificates and with their bound dissertations in November 2006 by Sir Mike Tomlinson.
