Several years ago the department got into hot water over utterly misbegotten "model" curriculums for teaching English and American history.

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And he argued that the current model for monitoring the quality of teaching in universities would need to be radically overhauled, as it was "too vague, too slow and too distant from the student".

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Others have suggested that online teaching represents a new funding model for universities.

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