Positive thinking, high expectations, effective organisation, confidence and enthusiasm. Assignments requiring the development and exercise of various skills. These are assessed formally and students receive extensive and timely feedback on their performance. Team formation and working and project management are involved. Tutorials with student presentations and peer review of performance.
Students learn from each other and develop teaching and communications capabilities.
Strong personal interactions between students at different levels and staff. Flat structures are maintained as far as possible, to promote two way exchanges of information and thinking. Strong involvement of students in making presentations and being reviewed. A significant personal project, which normally will contain elements of each of the above activity streams. Assignments with teaching staff review.