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		<title>Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase In a good example of journalese, the JapanProbe headline screams: Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices with a picture of an iPhone. At least one of the commenters is alert and informed, and effectively counters the title&#8217;s hyperbole: Comment by jikku 2009-05-17 18:34:27 The title of this article is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of universities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Been finding a few articles on the end of universities recently. 1) Universities will be &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; by 2020, says professor. This doesn&#8217;t say much that is new (&#8220;institutions that do not adapt will will out to those that do&#8221;), and I&#8217;m still waiting for all these universities to go belly-up and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Immediate Method Autumn seminar 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I took part in the 8th Immediate Method workshop at Kobe University. I gave a very brief report on how I&#8217;d been using IM in a couple of different university contexts. (A more detailed report was published in the Conversations in Class newsletter #3 (pdf), which can be downloaded from the Alma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to set the bar for EFL classes at Japanese universities?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photo credit: Limbo &#8211; &#8220;How Low Can You Go?&#8221; by sidneysealine3 on Flickr) The other day, I met an acquaintance who, like me, teaches English at a Japanese university. We were attending a wokshop, and at lunch he asked me: is very basic EFL really suitable for university students? Isn&#8217;t the bar being set too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University students, part-time jobs, and talking about Japan in English</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Student Loan Originally uploaded by here_for_now In my basic EFL Writing class last week, students created simple questionnaires, then asked each other, collated the results and made a brief report. A couple of students chose part-time jobs as their topic.They then posted their reports on their blogs. One of the purposes of having students [...]]]></description>
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