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Teaching university physics doesn’t have to be rocket science

26 Mar 2025

Decades of university teaching has made Mike Edmunds and Zbig Sobiesierski realize that student learning can be boosted by enthusiasm, engagement and enablement

University professor gesturing while interacting with diverse group of attentive students in a lecture hall
Knowledge transfer Lecturers shouldn’t succumb to the apocryphal definition of a lecture as a means of transferring the notes of the lecturer to the pad of the student. (Courtesy: iStock/bernardbodo)
Last year the UK government placed a new cap of £9535 on annual tuition fees, a figure that will li

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Mike Edmunds is an emeritus professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University, UK, and former president of the Royal Astronomical Society. Zbig Sobiesierski recently retired as director of continuing and professional education at Cardiff University. E-mail m.g.edmunds@gmail.com
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