Teaching and learning

Embattled university president in staunchly conservative state sees business-world allies valuing benefits of under-fire course

Students would be far better advised to focus on demonstrating their mastery of research skills, says Gordon Message

Alice Gast says the pandemic has shown the need for crucial changes in universities

‘Tinkering with an outmoded’ approach is not enough, Tan Eng Chye tells THE event

Innovative approaches can help students become more empathetic and skilled at decision-making as well as better historians

Expecting academics to effectively review potential cheating incidents is unrealistic and ineffective, says Scott McFarland

Universities have a unique opportunity to shape the post-pandemic future by promoting innovation and creativity for wider social impact, says Tan Eng Chye

Her long career as a psychologist and a college president has shown Beverly Daniel Tatum how crucial racial identity formation is and how overriding negative stereotypes about minority students’ performance can be like ‘water in a parched land’. Matthew Reisz hears why

Meta-analysis of meta-analyses finds incontrovertible benefits, particularly in ‘authoritarian’ teaching cultures

UPP polling suggests criticism of universities that are sticking with digital lectures may not be entirely justified

For some students, but certainly not all, ‘this version of learning is way better than anything that existed before’

The legal, security and emotional challenges must not get in the way of proper teaching and research into this crucial issue, says William Allchorn

Universities’ nominal control of undergraduate medical training belies the fractured reality, says Jonathan Rees

Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt warns that remaining institutions would become ‘bastions of the elite’

Online exams are unfair and hard to police, even with creepy levels of invasiveness, says Helen Soteriou  

Effect also more pronounced for science subjects, according to study of class sizes at UK university

Imperial creates tool to analyse geographic distribution of authors on reading lists and socio-economic status of their country

Even in a post-pandemic era of STEM and vocational education, the study of history must remain an option for all, says Sir Keith Burnett

Sally Mapstone tells QAA conference that lecture will continue to evolve, but will not disappear

Faculty must draw on abilities they have developed in the classroom to steer administrators in the right direction, says Karen Spierling

New campus to be set up with industry-friendly ‘hubs’, not faculties 

Interdisciplinarity will not meet its problem-solving potential unless graduates are primed to embrace challenges, says Paul O’Keefe

Proposed acquisition of Ouriginal would give academic integrity giant vast majority of market

‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out

Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer

Encouraging students to start a business could do more harm than good, researchers say

Online teaching could have been much better if institutions had previously taken a communal approach to digital evolution, says Doug Specht

Amid demographic decline and geopolitical isolation, island hopes to have more English-language courses

NYU provost suggests model of in-person elite higher education will endure

Director promises action as QAA says prestigious institution failing to meet sector standards and struggling to adapt to Covid-19

Putting aside questions of sexism, racism and homophobia, Australian literature review finds that SETs are just poor science

Complaints about essay mills peaked as online delivery concerns subsided, regulator’s report says

Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points

Sciences and humanities to be taught side by side starting this year in two leading institutions

A strategic rejection of digital instruction is akin to France’s short-sighted attempt to prevent invasion in the 1930s, says Robert Zaretsky

‘Extremely careful’ attitude reflects scepticism over vaccine roll-out, but also unexpected success of forced switch to online learning

Playwright can help us see beyond the limitations of the biomedical model, argues palliative care doctor

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Covid-19 have buried the idea that learning for learning’s sake is enough, says Nancy Gleason

BAME scholars have relished the chance to be creators and performers in their own space, free to express themselves fully and creatively, says Jonathan Wilson

Anna McKie talks to three experts about the benefits of embedding the concept of students co-creating their own learning

We must fight the urge to want to play with shiny new toys even more than educate our classes, says George Justice

The use of the messaging app for cheating is apparently rife, bringing the whole viability of online exams into question, says Daniel Sokol

Despite evidence that images can support higher-level thinking, their application is still marginalised, say Nataša Lacković and Zoe Hurley

New assessment strategies are required to promote the types of learning needed in the 21st century, says Danny Oppenheimer

We must do more to support learners from both individualistic and collectivistic cultures, says Flower Darby

Healthcare education must re-evaluate the importance of learning academic values versus meeting competence measures, say four academics

Requirement for trainee doctors to undertake training in the bush has not been enough to keep them there after graduation

Students’ use of the website to cheat has exploded during the pandemic, according to researchers, but its legitimate uses put universities in a difficult position

Student services aren’t enough. Academics are universities’ engine room, so must be the driving force of mental health reform, says Geoff Mills

In a world accustomed to beautiful, frictionless digital experiences, most online education looks like websites from the 1990s, says Louise McElvogue 

Students at overseas outposts are more negative about teaching quality, academic environment and engagement, according to paper

The pandemic has exposed the limits that commercial models impose on libraries’ ability to facilitate access, says Gauthier Van Malderen

Will institutions be willing to invest in the spaces, technology and workload support required to effectively teach these methods? asks Amanda White

If writers aren’t held responsible for their words, they have no incentive to write reflectively and precisely, says Joe Moran

We do our students a disservice by not educating ourselves on disruptive technologies such as VR and machine learning, says Christine Janssen 

The circle can be squared via long-term projects conducted outside the regular timetable, says Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The promise of the new lifelong learning loan allowance is undermined by the insistence on separate and impermeable tracks, says Tim Blackman

The emerging online demand for expert content offers an opportunity to scholars working outside formal academia, says Anton Howes

In a good asynchronous class, students are still learning, just not in a way that produces a post-performance high for educators, says Zachary Michael Jack

Successful learning design can happen only when academics and learning designers work in partnership, says Amy Sampson