Teaching and learning

Sir Michael Barber says that classes in English universities could be ‘more inspiring’

The teaching excellence framework shines a light on teaching provision, raises its profile, flags up areas for improvement and gives prospective students more information, says Chris Husbands

Don't dismiss the meditation technique as a fad: its well documented benefits for those in demanding careers make a strong case for teaching it at university, says Craig Hassed

International education is Australia’s third-largest export industry, worth more than A$20 billion, and is set for further growth driven by current geopolitics. Jack Grove reports on how international recruitment is playing its part in Australia’s embrace of the Asian century

Vice-chancellor explains traditional offices and teaching styles will disappear at £330 million Waterside project

Some vice-chancellors will decry the results of the teaching excellence framework, but should recognise areas of poor teaching it exposes, says Edward Peck

As student loan debt in the UK passes £100 billion, Sir Keith Burnett says it’s time we faced up to the real cost of tuition fees and debt

Company accused of profiting from students’ intellectual property

The wild variations in the proportions of top grades awarded by different departments and universities must be addressed, says Bernard Rivers

Release date was postponed in wake of uncertainty following UK general election

To defend the values of reason from political attack we need to be more discriminating about the claims made in its name, says John Hendry

Academics can acquire cult-like followings, but our goal should not be self-aggrandisement but the advancement of others, says Shahidha Bari

Lots of money is spent on medical education in England – but very little of it goes towards teaching, says Philip Chan 

After a German university scrapped an intermediate diploma and exam deadlines, results worsened and procrastination increased

US university leader explains how top teachers were selected to design a new multimillion-dollar teaching centre

Academics can spot essays produced by contract cheating websites ‘most of the time’, say Deakin University researchers

Some big-name institutions may gain bronze when results are published next week, but sector experts are divided on impact on England's university pecking order

The fashionable idea that reading novels could improve students’ fellow feeling bears little scrutiny, says Seán Williams

Annual survey of 14,000 UK undergraduates explores reasons for underachievement of black and ethnic minority learners

Comparing THE staff-student ratio data with OECD figures on tertiary education spending suggests some interesting results

Lobby group says that law requiring classes to be taught in Dutch must be enforced

University of Glasgow research indicates students can improve communication and thinking ability by playing computer games

Contentious questions about sexuality and gender need to be discussed robustly but respectfully, academic argues

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan says today’s education systems are ‘not suited to tomorrow’s society’

Purdue University’s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

University leaders highlight teaching funding proposal’s similarity to England’s TEF and fear ‘perverse incentives’ 

Call from government advisers to evaluate teaching quality, echoing England's TEF, could still go ahead

Ronald Schuchard looks at how Eliot’s time at the University of London shaped his work

‘Peculiar’ experiment fails to find link between physical appearance and grades

Increased scrutiny of US sector and distrust of academics puts traditional quality assurance models in question

Figures highlight challenges faced by European universities seeking to educate refugees

Forget affirmative action, says Sami Mikhail; universities are right to recruit on academic merit

Imaginative method is detailed in sector ombudsman’s latest annual report

Augmented reality and game-based learning among the innovations set to transform higher education

Ian Jacobs says visits by hundreds of thousands of international and lifelong learners on short courses will transform campus life

A right-wing philosopher in Texas tells John Gill how a minority of students can shut down debates and intimidate lecturers – and why he backs Trump

With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

US researchers claim 76 per cent success rate in using video analysis to identify likely misconduct

Study finds undergraduates suffer from living with more intelligent students, unless they attend class together

A haberdasher who has never heard of a handkerchief is indicative of a whole world catching a cold, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson

From personalising tuition to performance management, the use of data is increasingly driving how institutions operate

Conference hears how University of Adelaide uses metrics to improve performance

Mahmood Mamdani describes the rationale behind his pioneering research institute in Uganda

Hong Kong Polytechnic University initiative goes against trend towards shorter programmes

Joint honours approach attracts more women and ethnic minorities to field, says Northeastern dean

Recognising the dominant role of intelligence in academic performance is key to ending the underperformance of poor and minority students, says Richard J. Haier

As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative approaches

Researchers say students who use computers score half a grade lower than those who write notes

New institutions across the world believe that they can compete with big-name universities that are stuck in the past, explains Jack Grove

Automation has the potential to replace or alter 35 million jobs worldwide, which means universities must adapt to survive, argues Nancy Gleason

Setting pre-seen exams can bring out previously unsuspected abilities among students, say Nicholas Morton and Natasha Hodgson

While learning to work quickly is a useful life skill, a greater gift to students is permitting unhurried excursions and digressions, says Shahidha Bari

‘If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach?’ says L. Rafael Reif, who tells Ellie Bothwell how the research giant is working to improve teaching practice

Education minister wants power to prosecute assignment writing companies