Teaching and learning

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Outdated view that modern universities exert only local influence should be challenged, Hefce’s David Sweeney tells Barcelona event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

Fictional depictions of professoriate reinforce negative public perceptions, US study concludes

Co-editor of advice book for adjunct faculty talks about how to overcome feelings of being ‘untethered’ in the workplace

University of Sydney assessments ask students to edit and write online encyclopedia entries

Research shows continuing lack of historical and critical perspective in most bachelor's degrees

New ‘world-first’ Jisc project will allow students to compare their performance against their classmates’

Like junior doctors, academics should highlight the public value of what they do, argues Tom Cutterham

Fascination with ‘dark studies’ needs to be countered by studies of the Enlightenment, says Robert Zaretsky

Nicola Dandridge says that universities should play their part in National Apprenticeship Week

Did art schools such as Central Saint Martins ever have a golden age and, if they did, is it irrevocably lost? Anna Coatman writes

Several research-intensive universities are on list, but many institutions dispute the findings

Jeffrey Lehman says American universities have the resources and autonomy to be innovative

Conference hears that fundamental skills, rather than specific languages, will serve graduates throughout their careers

When did academics lose the capacity to discuss their research without slides, asks Gary Rawnsley

Undergraduates endorsed patently false statements in US experiment

John Holmwood explains why attendees of the Second Convention for Higher Education plan to write their own legislation

Ministers must demonstrate that assessing ‘excellence’ does more good than harm, says Dorothy Bishop

Stephen Mumford is boycotting any university where handguns are allowed in class – and he wants others to join him

Decision has rekindled row over universities’ role in validating HE courses in FE

Almost half of defectors drop out of higher education in South Korea

In the third blog from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards, Philip Drake recalls his experience of setting up a legal advice clinic

Students tend to nominate entertaining or ‘sexy’ academics, says paper

The Green Paper must recognise the diversity of England’s higher education sector, says John Cater

Despite claims that engagement with business is as important as research and teaching, academics find they have no time for work outside the academy

Few academics use the full potential of their voices, yet speaking well allows us to be alive and connected in the moment, says Joe Moran

Hepi report says teaching assessment should be delayed to allow for lessons from Ofsted and Care Quality Commission to be incorporated

Survey finds support for tools that could improve grades and reduce risk of dropping out

In the second blog from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards, Luke Burns calls on lecturers to embrace technology and a sense of theatre

Patrick O’Malley shares the secrets of his success in the first of a series of blogs from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards

Countries like Singapore are turning to broad-based education just as the US turns away from it, says Trisha Craig

Chinese Ministry of Education directive wants students abroad to have a ‘positive patriotic energy’

With a module on diversity to teach, law academic Steven Vaughan muses on his decision to out himself to his students

We need more time to road-test the TEF, develop the right metrics and get everyone on board, argues Bill Rammell

Interviews with MA students in UK suggest that although few agree with Chinese government line, compulsory courses dull development of independent thought

Alison Baverstock, director of The KU Big Read, offers a dozen tips for anyone trying to engage a whole university community

Backlash from v-cs prompts teaching champion to opt for 'reflection and consultation'

Broader-based education addresses concerns over graduate skills, conference hears

With Regent’s University London the latest to offer the US-style of undergraduate education, Natasha Turner looks at how courses are being received elsewhere