Higher Education Academy Student Awards 2005

GEES Student Essay Competition 2005 Winners Announced!

The GEES Subject Centre invited students to write an essay that describe good practice in learning and teaching for undergraduates, from the student perspective.

Thank you to all those students who took the time to write an essay for the competition. All the entrants had something really valuable to say and we will collating their ideas and comments into a ‘student perspective’ article for this web page and the next edition of our magazine, Planet (due out October 2005). In the mean time, here are the two winning and two runner-up entries from Rob Marten, Frances Mansfield, Cathy Gitzer and Christianna Ludlow respectively. Congratulations to all four for rich, interesting, enthusiastic and well thought through essays – they were a pleasure to read. Rob’s essay has also been sent forward to the general Higher Education Academy competition, running across 19 Subject Centres. The final winner will be announced at the Academy’s conference at the end of June 2005.

Here are the winners and runners up for 2005:

Joint Winner - Rob Marten, 3rd year Geography BA, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Science, University of Birmingham - What makes a good geography lecturer? (12kb rtf - opens in Word)

Joint Winner - Frances Mansfield, 3rd year Geological Sciences MSci, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge - What makes the best learning experience for a student in Geography, Earth or Environmental Sciences? (10kb rtf - opens in Word)

Runner Up - Cathy Gitzer, 2nd year Geography BA, School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews - Be the steam engine (7kb rtf - opens in Word)

Runner Up - Christianna D. Ludlow, 1st year B.Sc. Geography and Environmental Science, Department of Geography, University of Sussex -What makes a good lecturer in Geography, Earth or Environmental Science? (6kb rtf - opens in Word)

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