Chinese students in a UK business school: hearing the student voice in reflective teaching and learning practice.

This paper presents the outcomes of a study carried out in 2001-2002 with nine postgraduate students from China, enrolled on taught master's programmes in a UK university business school. The aims of the research were to explore the development of the students' orientations to learning during their year of study in the UK, and to explore how the researcher's interactions with the study group contributed to her professional reflections and influenced her academic practice. The main conclusions of the project were that participants' underlying approaches to learning did not change substantially over the year, owing to the culturally implicit nature of UK academic conventions and that they experienced high levels of emotional isolation and loneliness, which affected their academic confidence

More on Dosso's Aeneas frieze

As is well known, the decoration of the camerino of Alfonso d'Este included, above the celebrated Bacchanals by Bellini and Titian, a frieze of ten scenes from Virgil's Aeneid by the Ferrarese court painter Dosso Dossi. As recently as the Dosso exhibition of 1998-1999 only two and a half of these scenes had been rediscovered, but since then several more have re-emerged, two of them very recently, leaving only three still missing. As well as publishing the two new discoveries, the present article takes the opportunity to reassess the iconographic programme of the frieze as a whole, and to consider how they were originally arranged in the camerino