Teaching and learning

Ditching digital provision will waste pandemic progress and make life harder for students who are disabled or carers, says Meredith Wilkinson

Jeff Grabill says lifelong learning will bring thousands more students to higher education, and universities must be honest about what they can expect

Interactions with his student neighbours have convinced Harvey Graff that they crave a supportive, broadly based, interactive education

Six in 10 firsts awarded in England last year would get lower classification under historic marking standards, claims Office for Students

Virtual tools have unprecedented power to bend teaching towards research-proven ideals, yet opportunity of lockdown getting squandered, MIT experts tell colleagues

Funding reforms set to drive up demand, but institutions uncertain about likely intake and course interest

Universities must ‘recalibrate promotion criteria’ to place more value on teaching, says scholar

Universities seen as lacking capacity and strategy to embrace blended learning long-term

Academics at 44 institutions to refuse to mark work or set exams in midst of busy summer assessment period, in ongoing row over pay and pensions

The King’s College London president says universities are ‘not in any way toxic places’

Higher education is key to reassessing who we are as a nation and why we’re tolerating such extreme division and deception, says Vincent Rougeau

Well-meaning initiatives that prioritise student satisfaction over educational objectives deny students access to the type of rich learning experience that universities were designed for, argue Rebekah Wanic and Nina Powell 

Some institutions embracing in-person assessment again after lifting of Covid-19 regulations

The University of Leeds vice-chancellor discusses why UK higher education should go Dutch and the national scandal that drew her to academia

Singaporean students are focused on grades, but their skills and attitudes are just as important for their success, says Thanusha Raj

While staff hostility towards philanthropically backed humanities courses has not abated, entry and satisfaction scores suggest students take a different view

After years of resisting university managers determined to graduate students at all costs, one US professor decided it was time to quit

Universities urged to work alongside edtech companies and other online players to improve offering to students

Academics experiment with allowing undergraduates to text each other during assessments, and get positive response

Hundreds of academics refuse to take part in system as part of ongoing industrial action, prompting institutions to draw up contingency plans

Unreliable internet connections and underdeveloped pedagogies will blunt the potential impact of online options, says Mukhtar Ahmad 

After fighting off attempt to expel them, academics resign from learned academy over ‘untoward political focus’

Long-standing issues put into sharp focus as expert predicts half of students pursuing medicine abroad fail to become doctors

Global horrors reverberate in far-off campuses, widening the gap between students and their prosperous surrounds

Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education

Teaching students to hack is necessary to show them how to defend against it – but we need to do more to instil ethics, says Andy Farnell  

Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’

Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers

New guidelines for undergraduates to properly treat their study subjects fuels debate over net gain for science

Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff

Obsessed with graduate employment, US universities are doing little to improve students’ ability to think independently, a major new study has concluded. Paul Basken speaks to the Harvard academics behind the decade-long investigation and hears how student learning can be repaired

All academics have had that anxiety dream about standing up to give a lecture, only to realise they have forgotten to prepare anything – or to put on any clothes. But real teaching failures are rarely so disastrous – and many are teachable moments. Seven academics tell us their hard-earned lessons

Back-to-campus plans postponed as classes make way for crisis centres

No group should have exclusive ‘authority to speak’, New Zealand forum hears

The academy should be a safe haven for ignorance – provided it is accompanied by a willingness to be respectfully challenged, says Nic Smith

Research aims to gather evidence on whether international links with autocratic states pose threat to UK academic freedom

Offering the opportunity to iteratively paraphrase copied content to lower similarity scores is nothing to do with education, says Július Kravjar

Vertical campus ‘well suited’ to small group teaching, as students navigate degrees one block at a time

Running Bristol programme online still helped with student well-being compared with control group, study suggests 

As politicians begin to confront America’s student debt crisis, Charlie Eaton explains how public opinion turned so decisively against the financialisation of US higher education and why full loan cancellation is now on the cards

Open access champion also proposes an IB for universities, as competition gives way to collaboration  

Partnership and co-creation should be a permanent part of UK campus life, says report

Despite China’s rise, even the country’s government recognises that English usage is irrevocable, say Philip Altbach and Gerard Postiglione

TEDI-London will strive not to conform to teaching orthodoxies despite pressures from founders and regulators, says its dean

Marketing students in business schools increasingly demand to be taught to use audio-visual software, says Emmanuel Mogaji

The Novak Djokovic affair underlines the need to teach that openness to error is the baseline of knowledge, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham

Two years of low-quality online provision has left one stranded international student homeless, unemployed and heartbroken

Figures could prompt further concerns over whether pandemic-era grading uplift is now ‘baked in’

Roles seek to counter dominance of publication metrics in promotion, but scholars say research should remain primary path to career progression

The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology president discusses project-based learning, securing government funding and demographic decline

The technological objectification of thought plagued education long before classes were conducted over Zoom, says Kishore Saval

Classroom skills that previously came naturally to lecturers and students can become very rusty in the online environment, says Christopher Hallenbrook 

Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal, warns Johnny Rich

Watching online lectures at faster speeds does not significantly impede understanding and may allow students more time to revise, say researchers

Higher education must acknowledge the extra workload that comes with higher education in the digital era, says Christopher Schaberg

Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers

Perhaps it is only by recasting an agreement as an adventure that professors can respond to the urgency of our times, says Robert Zaretsky

Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper

The UK minister’s demand that universities stick to face-to-face lectures is a step backwards for education, says Wendy Garnham

The historian raised in a military family talks about her interest in both war and community, and the formative class which shaped that