Teaching and learning

As more vice-chancellors across the UK emerge from educational backgrounds, rather than academic ones, they argue that academic bias and hierarchies need to be dismantled

Hepi paper says keeping papers under lock and key could be harming student learning

Encouraged to use ChatGPT to help them with the hard stuff, my students let it do all their thinking for them. Maybe I should give up, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

Universities raise quality concerns as regulator sets end-of-year cut-off for transition to digital credits

Enthusiasts claim that authentic tasks boost work-readiness, promote inclusion and diminish cheating, but the evidence remains unclear, says Tim Fawns

Tutorial system monopolised by ‘domineering’ male students and focus on final-year examinations seen as disadvantaging women

The rise of Asian higher education has coincided with increasing graduate un- and under-employment in several nations, calling the value of degrees into question and threatening national stability. But is the problem underprepared students or dysfunctional politics and economies? Helen Packer reports

Alerts about troubling material project ethical universality but trumpet some forms of injustice while conveniently bypassing others, says Eric Heinze

The global cost pressures imposed by sector expansion oblige universities to embrace technology that is finally fulfilling the hype, says Anthony Finkelstein

With ethnic minority students missing disproportionately more classes, traditional timetabling risks widening attainment gaps, says Christopher Byrne

Credentialing is a key good offered by universities, but giving some students more help than others undermines it, says Justin Noia

Some academics put off from using AI because of ‘lack of guidance’ on how to use technology ‘ethically and transparently’

Speaking Spanish is seen as a problem to be erased. But in Puerto Rico it is key to our success, say Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Héctor José Huyke

Report comes after former student convicted of 2023 attempted murder of academic

Unfazed by unemployment, and resigned about home ownership, learners are taking their feet off the pedal

No elite US university finishes in the top 50 for the international outlook pillar, a category that is dominated by the United Arab Emirates at the top and the UK lower down

If AI is to transform education, assessment must be rebooted and developers must make leaps in understanding the learning process, experts say. Rosa Ellis reports

Chris Rock’s joke about US gun control exemplifies a cognitive sophistication that machines will struggle to match, say Akhil Bhardwaj and Anastasia Sergeeva

‘Highly focused and narrow policy interventions’ such as the £3.5 billion-a-year apprenticeship levy have held back wider engagement between academia and industry, says critical report

State must step in, according to submissions to major university review

New report finds expanded offerings in some European countries and significant cuts in others

Staff get a say on how, but not whether, to ditch lectures at merged university

Institutions need to communicate recognition of prior learning policies more clearly if lifelong education reforms are to bear fruit, says QAA

Universities must rethink how they engage with students in era of major upheavals, according to Bonni Stachowiak as she reflects on 10 years of running Teaching in Higher Ed

Many scholars loathe generative AI but it has immense power to engage the intellectual curiosity of students as long as academics truly embrace it, argues John Kaag

Campaign aims to address stalling university enrolments despite record interest in subject at A level

Rather than lament student attitudes, we should ask if meaningful exchanges of ideas in class are still possible, say Mikael Andéhn and Alan Bradshaw

Proportion of students getting a first dips below 30 per cent for first time since 2018-19

Report stresses AI is ‘new standard’ and universities need to better communicate policies

Office for Students investigation finds computing courses are failing to meet learners’ needs, but university claims it is based on old data

As Australian scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition

First comprehensive research university to fully switch to block teaching believes it is destined to become ‘more mainstream’

Off-campus trips have manifold benefits, especially for poorer students. We mustn’t lose them to technology or cost-cutting, says Robert Phillips

Instead of viewing GenAI only as a threat, we should embrace it as an opportunity to reform our outdated approaches, says Dorottya Sallai

National Education Policy prioritises Indian knowledge, but many are against embedding certain historical documents into the curriculum

We should not deprive numerous hard-pressed students of valuable flexibility merely to ensure that the ‘undeserving’ don’t skip classes, say five experts

Changing student expectations and labour market challenges also drive shift towards interdisciplinary programmes

New technology that allows AI avatars to deliver lectures could be used to ‘democratise’ access to higher education, says professor

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University find that giving students more control increases the time they spend studying and improves their performance in tasks

I concentrate on the joy I get from working with the students who do show up, rather than feeling slighted by those who don’t, says Anna Meier

The pioneering French physicist explains why she still lectures and how she kept her Nobel prize news under wraps at the lectern

With students studying in England no longer quizzed on their overall satisfaction, THE crunches the numbers to calculate which UK university has the most satisfied students

Institutions hope to show worth to new government by training more doctors and teachers, but say they need policy commitments in return

UCLA lecturer says ban necessary due to fears that those discussing contentious issues may face repercussions

Students show rising levels of satisfaction with courses at UK universities

When too many students fail to graduate, small investments can make a world of difference, says commission

Nobel laureate says discussing vapid AI answers can help students understand true scientific rigour

Effect persists even after controlling for numerous variables, leaving researchers to puzzle over how brain and body are affected by large rooms

There are many ways we can assist students’ learning; teaching is only one of them, and it is not the most important, says John Cookson

Generative AI is ‘a bit like teenage snogging – everyone’s doing it although no one really knows how’

With more countries keen to capitalise on the lucrative industry, policymakers and companies are leaning on universities to address talent deficits

Evidence suggests that the benefits of lecture capture are coming at the cost of broader student and staff well-being, say Treasa Kearney and Liz Crolley

Lack of management nous leaves legal profession vulnerable as human and technological shifts expose need for people skills

‘It’s not a machine for cheating; it’s a machine for producing crap,’ says one professor infuriated by rise of bland scripts

Senegal’s oldest university is bringing together medical doctors and traditional healers to find potential areas of agreement, its vice-chancellor explains

Departments can no longer be singularly tied to their mathematical and engineering foundations, focused only on what can be built, says Beth Mynatt

More UK undergraduates see courses as value for money in 2024, with international students driving much of the increase

Perhaps AI will be a useful tool. But our obsession with every shiny new object regardless of the harm it might do makes me worry, says Melinda Zook

Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims

Getting up and moving around during classes leads to increased attention and more enjoyment, research finds