Teaching and learning

Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ‘contracts to educate’

Chief executive of FE provider NCG said motivation for getting degree-awarding powers was ‘taking control’ of its own HE provision

Our data team’s modelling of the potential teaching excellence framework results shows the Russell Group losing out to a new elite

THE analysis of core metrics suggests small campus universities and post-92s could outperform Russell Group institutions

Steve Kang says he wants to challenge East Asian 'uni-directional' tradition of education where students simply 'prepare for the test'

The Dutch binary system, with its distinction between research-oriented and professional higher education, is a good thing, says Martin Paul.

HEA survey suggests that institutions are waiting on TEF details before deciding whether to adopt more granular method of degree classification

Danish academic says that building a knowledge economy is no longer a ‘dominant wish’ for country leaders

Quality Assurance Agency says university should even out disparity in number of tutorials and essays set by colleges

Figure described as ‘tip of the iceberg’ of new system’s price tag

Stop clinging to the way you’ve always done things and work a little smarter, says Chris Moore

The National Student Survey, one of the pillars of the TEF, is more likely to measure enjoyment than learning, says Wolfgang Stroebe

Concerns over low contact hours and delays in handing back assignments loom large in Hepi/HEA survey

Krzysztof Rybiński on changing Narxoz University’s culture and the lure of ‘the best meat in the world’

With truly immersive headsets now on the market, academics are beginning to explore how to use the technology for teaching

Beware reliance on teaching excellence framework metrics, says Claire Taylor

Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’

Charles Bailyn's time in Asia has opened his eyes to the high regard in which a liberal arts education is still held internationally

Institution-level statistics will be ‘too generic’, THE/HEA webchat hears

High-profile literary critic once described as “Australia’s most distinguished woman” was the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney

David Matthews reports from Canada on a model that gives students up to two years in work placements

Ministers press ahead with plans to assess institutions despite warnings from research they commissioned

Misty Bentz is the inventor of ‘Phynd the Physicist’, a game designed to open dialogue among students about inclusion

Study says that staff and students are uncertain about how to maximise the educational potential of flexible teaching spaces

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

Tim Blackman’s vision of higher education for the 21st century is one in which students of varying abilities learn successfully together

Academics do not always publicise their work, says senior academic administrator at Moroccan university 

Vice-chancellors remain concerned about reputation impact of dividing universities into three tiers

Government postpones introduction of differential fee caps in response to higher education sector concerns

Matthew Hartley ponders how prestigious (and pricey) colleges can justify their course costs

Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama

Hepi calls for action on sector’s gender gap to tackle male ‘underachievement’

A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years

New book explores the anxieties of Peking and Tsinghua students caught between their parents, the Communist Party and new Western ideas about education

David Tollerton takes issue with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis' message to university leaders

Course for world’s ‘most senior business leaders’ will cost ‘gigantic’ £80K for first year

Paul Greatrix on exposing an entire cohort to an American pedagogical classic, the common reading programme, and a classic American novel 

Carolyn Wickware reports on how the degree model has regained its popularity in recent years

Schools and universities are increasingly looking at how improving personalities can boost social mobility. But in doing so, they may be forced to choose between teaching what is helpful, and what is true, says David Matthews

Best-selling author explains how his love of sci-fi and romance stories have helped him craft his latest statistics odyssey

To aid non-traditional students, David Burns built a ‘Spoc’, a digital course where an academic is always on call

How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as “poor”?, asks Andrew W. Robinson

‘Character education’, a concept that has taken off among schoolteachers, could be coming to higher education

Both the government and resurgent left-wing groups are promoting ‘red education’ in the country’s universities

Universities are beginning to explore using a new set of social media apps as students give up on Facebook and Twitter

Open University explores whether webcams can be used to monitor learners' facial expressions or eye movements

Students will be asked to sabotage the National Student Survey unless ministers pull back from reforms

Matthew Reisz welcomes an academics’ list of vital texts for those entering higher education

Scholars choose ‘essential’ texts to introduce sixth-formers to the academy

The impulse to make things relevant is not always facile, says Shahidha Bari

Analysis reveals some disciplines could leave graduates at a much greater risk of being replaced by machines in the future

Ballot for industrial action is called despite ongoing pay talks over pay claim for 2016-17

Just because students' exam results have always been publicly released doesn't make it right, says Priscilla Mensah

Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education says 'the tide is against' these specialist institutions

How should universities handle breakdowns in PhD student-supervisor relationships?

Outdated view that modern universities exert only local influence should be challenged, Hefce’s David Sweeney tells Barcelona event

New universities must seek innovative ways to improve the student experience rather than simply mimicking older institutions, says Peter Coaldrake

Teaching excellence is nothing without student engagement, says Claire Taylor

Study also warns that business schools could be producing ever more narcissistic graduates, leading to economic problems in future

But study finds while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that's not the case at community colleges, reports Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik