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Groove for SULS have been elected as the 2024 Executive for the Sydney University Law Society (SULS) winning 54% of the vote. The incoming SULS executive team…

Groove for SULS have been elected as the 2024 Executive for the Sydney University Law Society (SULS) winning 54% of the vote. The incoming SULS executive team…

Two tickets are running in this year’s Sydney University Law Society (SULS) Executive election: Bloom for SULS and Groove for SULS. Bloom is managed by Kaela…

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This paper discusses the impact of a series of professional development workshops for peer leaders to enhance the student learning experience at an Australian enabling education institution over the period of three years (2019–2021). It reports the impact of these workshops on peer leaders’ professional development and, more importantly, on enhancing the learning experience of students participating in Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). The paper also highlights the effect of this initiati...

The General Education Foundation (GEF) Programme, consisting of two seminar courses, namely “In Dialogue with Humanity” and “In Dialogue with Nature,” has been a common core requirement of The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2012. Aided by selected classics, students from all faculties engage in dialogues with their teachers and each other to reflect on what it means to have a good life, what an ideal society is, and the nature of intellectual pursuit in the sciences. Reading class...

In this weeks edition of A Wealth of Health, Hannah Lifrieri talks about a variety of resources available at JMU to help students in their classes as well as with

In this paper, we analyse the introduction of peer mentors into timetabled classes to understand how in-class mentoring supports students’ learning. The peer mentors in this study are high-achieving students who previously completed the same course and who were hired and trained to facilitate Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). PASS gives students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through revision and active learning and are typically held outside of class time. In contrast, our t...

Sydney Law School will discontinue the popular Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) program for Law from Semester 2 onwards. Details about its replacement are…

Supplemental Instruction/Peer Assisted Study Sessions (SI-PASS) is a peer learning program used worldwide to improve students’ learning and performance in challenging courses in higher education. A bonus effect of the program is the transferable skills that the student leaders may develop when facilitating the study sessions. These student leaders can potentially gain communication, group management, and other personal skills that are useful later in life. The relatively few studies devoted to...