The policy was welcomed by the main lecturers' union, the University and College Union, but it warned against attacking teachers when criticising the Coalition Government's record on education.
Although this was an area that the authors were, as the main lecturers on the course, aware of, we were surprised that the students felt so strongly about this outcome of the KS.
For the lecturer, the main difficulty is how to handle such a diversity of prior knowledge (e.g. large variations in levels of computing skills or limited exposure to biological concepts).
Three main themes emerged from the lecturer's and the teaching assistant's interviews: (1) students engagement in learning, (2) influence of the CSI Model, and (3) a new way of teaching and learning.
Although the learning process is student centered, the majority of the study sample perceived that the lecturer is the main source of knowledge, perhaps due to the students' perceived lack of resources, difficulty to understand the textbooks on such topics, and the short time available for study.
"Many people think it is a fabricated drama," said Ihsanullah Khan, 35, a university lecturer in Swat's main town, Mingora.
The lecturer gave optics lectures.
The main reasons reported for missing lectures were preparing for another examination, lack of interest, lecturer's teaching style, and availability of lecture material.
Jean Roberts, local officer for the National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the unions' main objection was that the school was not needed in the area.
In a letter to David Blunkett in October, representatives of the main teaching unions, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Nasuwt and the National Union of Teachers, said: "Children in mainstream schools are the key to the rapid integration of asylum-seeking children".
