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Some lessons from a student-centred approach to teaching and learningjenny Hall and Mark Saunders, Business School, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Oxstalls Lane, Gloucester, GL2 9HW, UK Pressure to reduce staff-student ratios has hastened the need to move away from traditional and adopt new teaching and learning strategies. At the same time, the need remains for students of practical subjects such as information technology to feel secure. One solution is the use of a student-centred approach where much of the responsibility for learning is given to the student.

Whilst the Victorian Education Department does not provide school based psychologists, many non government schools in Victoria have done so for a number of years. The girls'school at which I work has employed “counsellors” for nearly 40 years. The counsellor has been a psychologist for about 20 years and for the last 6 years the school has employed two full time psychologists. The school currently has 1004 students in the Senior School (years 7 to 12) and 370 students in the Junior School (preparatory to Grade 6). I believe all schools, both government and non government should employ school based psychologists because they can contribute in ways that are not possible for a person who is based elsewhere and visits a school once, or even several times a week.

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