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Let’s get ethical

It may be spring but it’s kind of autumnal in academia. Instead of falling leaves, assignments have fallen from our students and need to be marked. After our academic autumn comes our summer. And that means desperately trying to meet the deadlines for things we said we’d do but haven’t got to. For me, that includes writing a chapter about teaching ethics.

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