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[quote=Anonymous]The teaching systems are very different. At Oxbridge, you meet in small groups with a tutor, who assigns essays on various works and critiques them. It seems to be a great way to become a good writer. It's very different from the way other British universities teach, because the low student teacher ratio is so expensive. At Harvard, each class is a combo of large lectures and labs/small group discussions. There are small group seminars, particularly for sophomores, but they would be about 25% of a students courseload. I taught at a couple of British universities, but we returned home so that my kid could go through the US secondary system. When I was an undergraduate, the courses I took outside of my major really changed the way I look at the world, and my British students didn't have access to that sort of breadth. The British job market is somewhat more siloed and less flexible than the US market.[/quote]
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