How we reassure accounting students that AI won’t take their jobs
Hearing first-hand from industry professionals about AI’s impact on workplaces can alleviate career anxiety. Here is how to organise firm visits and prompt post-activity…
Universities must evolve from degree-granting hubs to social anchors
Higher education institutions can be incubators for ethical leadership, lifelong learning ecosystems and community partnerships, writes Rahim Somani
Authentic assessment design for computer programming master’s courses
A four-step plan for more meaningful assessment that incorporates AI-assisted evaluation, group discussions and presentations
Brainstorming benefits of an AI writing assistant app
User needs, smart prompts and functionality were central to creating an AI tool that supports student writing and thinking. Here, Joanne Chia and Angela Frattarola share…
How to reimagine an existing subject
Immersive technology and student co-creation allowed educators to revamp a general education course. Here’s how they did it
Is authentic assessment leaving some students behind?
Does a more authentic assessment for some students mean an inauthentic experience for others? Here’s how to address this by adopting a student-focused…
Make your annual report sing
An annual report is a useful tool for promoting your institution’s work. Here’s how to coordinate its publication and get it seen
Are you a jack of all GenAI?
Effective use of generative AI draws on a suite of skills that go beyond well-crafted prompts. Getting the best out of tech’s ubiquitous tool requires informed choices,…
An AI toolkit for all aspects of academic life
Harness the power of technology to reshape the tasks that make up your day. Here are the best AI tools to use in higher education
Want to teach during your PhD? Here’s what you should know
How to prepare for your first teaching experience, manage your time and keep students engaged in class
When to use an AI professor (and why you might not need one)
Selective embrace of artificial intelligence is key to its success in supporting student learning. Here, Leonard Ng Wei Tat shares lessons from building an effective AI…
Rewild your campus
Intentional planting and water and soil conservation can encourage wildlife back to our campuses and create a rich learning environment
The university support services that help demonstrate research impact
Library and knowledge transfer services are just two of the institutional resources available to help academics show the impact of their research. Find out which …
Building a culture of care to support students’ mental health
Mental health support is a community-wide concern, which includes easy-to-access counselling, staff awareness and training, an empathetic environment and community…
Get students on board with AI for marking and feedback
AI can potentially augment feedback and marking, but we need to trial it first. Here is a blueprint for using enhanced feedback generation systems and gaining trust
Kickstart your educational research journey
Educational research can help elevate your teaching to the next level. Here’s how to get started
Working in partnership with PhD students to enhance postgraduate research culture
With guidance on the REF 2029 assessment of People, Culture and Environment just published, how might UK universities’ approach to partnership with …
Unlocking minority students’ potential with an asset model approach
How can we tackle the gaps in attainment and outcomes between racialised ethnic minority and white students? This resource shares best practice based on running…
‘We should focus on the effect of the technology rather than the technology itself’
How much tech is helpful in the classroom? Highlighting both benefits and drawbacks, John Komar explains how computer vision and AI can reinforce personal …
How a mathematics competition can develop future university students
A national initiative to find the best young mathematicians demonstrated how the subject can bridge the gap between school and university. Find out how to use it to develop…
Say goodbye to boring presentations
GenAI can supercharge your PowerPoint presentations to offer students interactive opportunities that increase participation and deepen learning. Here’s how
Online should not mean offline for business lecturers
When online courses are delivered more or less to a prescribed script, this leaves little space for an educator’s personalised contribution and autonomy, writes Anita…
Each discipline has a part to play
A guide to conducting preliminary research, setting goals and defining each member’s level of input to an interdisciplinary research project
How to balance tension in interdisciplinary teaching and learning
An interdisciplinary approach to programme development comes with inherent tensions, which need to be balanced and worked through. Here are our tips
Navigating uncertainty with interdisciplinary teaching
The siloed approach to education – where students in technical, business, humanities and arts disciplines learn separately – is no longer adequate, writes Lisa McNair
The wintering of universities
The fallow moments of retreat are necessary to bring about spring. For universities, we must use this winter to think about what it is we do, writes Katie Normington
Give students the skills to communicate across disciplines
In sustainability education, inter- and transdisciplinary teaching alone is not enough – students need to develop the skills to learn in a cross-disciplinary way. Co-creation…
What’s the crucial element for interdisciplinary teamwork? Psychological safety
Foster a sense of radical openness in your interdisciplinary online learning environment by establishing psychological safety – here’s how
Lessons from an interdisciplinary community engagement course for engineers
STEM curricula in the US don’t often expose students to perspectives on culture, history and power nor equip them with effective community engagement …
How to get students interested in interdisciplinary work
Providing real-world opportunities, incentives and spaces for interdisciplinary work enables undergraduate students to explore important solutions to complex issues
How to prevent compassion fatigue
Many educators experience compassion fatigue at some point in their careers. Prevent it by shifting your perspective, setting boundaries and building strong support…
Universities need to move interdisciplinary professional associations to the next step
Inter- and transdisciplinary teaching is going beyond communities of practice – but it’s still too small to compete with discipline-based professional associations. …
How civic arts programmes can make students feel welcome
Empowering students to co-create music events with peers can foster a sense of belonging in their university and city. Here’s how a student-community collective …
Improving assessments through industry collaboration
How to build and maintain industry relationships and coordinate effective project-based assessments for MBA students
International research needs international research professionals
When researchers in poorer countries are expected to deliver programmes to the exacting standards of funders in the Global North, it makes international collaboration…
Scholarly publishers’ role in fostering collaboration in academia
With the infrastructure in place to exchange ideas and information, journals can enable scholars to build on their research and accelerate discovery and quality of…
DeepSeek and shallow moats: what does it mean for higher education?
DeepSeek’s arrival may have spooked the markets, but what does it mean for the research and development of LLMs? Higher education should avoid putting all its eggs in one…
Providing the right resources for students who work alongside study
Student services and scholarships are among the support systems that can help students manage a job in tandem with their university education
Four things to consider to create a safe and inspiring interdisciplinary learning environment
With interdisciplinary teaching, we need to look at ‘how’ as well as ‘what’. Focus on these four elements of course design to create a space where integration and…
How to know when students need mental health assistance
Academic institutions have a rare opportunity to intervene to help students with mental health challenges, but this requires support and training for staff and faculty, writes…
Three alternative assessments that build managerial skills
Personal development discussions, presentations and peer coaching help build essential communication skills and emotional intelligence. These tips will make them…
Can you teach interdisciplinarity in 10 weeks?
Interdisciplinarity is an ambitious and rewarding research process, but how realistic can we be in a 10-week module? Here is how to frame the task, structure the…
Market orientation must be an institution-wide endeavour
As higher education becomes increasingly global, universities must adopt a market-orientated philosophy, balancing student needs, national priorities and…
Tap the mine of library data to help enhance your courses
University libraries offer a rich well of data for course enhancement teams, on everything from student engagement to which resources they’re using …
Beyond the classroom: from PhD preparation to leadership
A foundational pathway that nurtures future leaders in healthcare and scientific innovation produces students who are not only ready for their PhD journey but …
What can module leaders learn from Toyota?
How to use the plan-do-check-act cycle to improve student success, satisfaction and grades
Voice, agency and style: what goes missing when AI chats back
We need to teach that imperfect but authentic writing is more valuable than sentences that are polished on the surface, argue three US academics. Here, they share…
How to integrate AI into strategy and business education
Incorporate AI into your teaching or ignore it and hope it fades from view? Let’s balance these two attitudes by raising our expectations of students
How can we assess interdisciplinarity?
Effectively assessing interdisciplinarity involves encouraging students to ask the right questions and critically evaluating the quality of the knowledge created,…
Should universities meet all industry demands?
With higher education institutions adapting their programmes to prepare students for future jobs, they risk producing corporatised graduates to a detriment of…
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