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Haptic dentistry: the next frontier?
17 February 2021

When it comes to remote learning, the study of certain subjects involving practical laboratory work seems impossible. Dentistry is surely one of them. How can students gain valuable clinical experience – even if it is using a ‘phantom head’ – in the lab when a global pandemic has dictated they stay home?

Degree Apprenticeships “bash down the doors to closed professions”
20 January 2021

As the first Russell Group university to start offering Degree Apprenticeships in 2015, Queen Mary University of London has always led the way in new approaches to learning.

Transforming Year 1: from workshop tasks to digital projects
22 December 2020

Even before the global pandemic hit, the School of Business was undergoing some radical changes to its curriculum with a focus on social learning and the need to build a stronger identity for its students.

Learning analytics make student experience “more human”
18 November 2020

It’s not often that we associate AI and data collection with the deepening of emotional relationships but the School of History at Queen Mary University of London is using them to do just that. In addition to using technology to deliver online learning, the School is using data to improve pastoral care and enhance the student experience.