Spotlights

Find out what qualities make a good administrator and how to navigate the challenges of such roles within higher education

With the future job market harder to predict than ever before, here’s how to prepare your students for the unknown. Find out how to teach them transferable skills, make sure they’re digitally literate, ready them for the job application process, hone your university career services to perfection and work with industry

Tips for each step of researching, writing and refining a PhD dissertation

Find out how higher education institutions can work towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Information on how institutions function and some tips for success from staff at campuses across the globe

Threat or opportunity? Advice for using, mitigating and embracing artificial intelligence in university assessment, skills development and task design

Advice on confronting higher-education-specific challenges

Resources on building data literacy skills for students, researchers and leadership

How to create a university where neurodivergent staff and students feel welcome and thrive in the classroom, in the lab and throughout campus

A guide to open access – what it is, how to do it and how it can move research forward

Advice for women in higher education from leaders of institutions across the globe

Resources and advice on what universities can do to help students cope with the rising cost of living

Advice on getting your students registered to vote and into the polling station on election day, as well as teaching critical thinking, debating well, reaching out into the community and how universities can advance democracy

Advice on how to maximise public engagement with your research

From application to completion, these resources for institutions, teachers and support staff offer advice to ensure that first-gen students thrive

How to reach new heights in academia, from crafting the perfect CV to navigating career pathways

Advice for academics on how to switch off and not feel guilty

Inspiration and ideas from the outstanding faculty and universities in the UK and Ireland

From creating an inclusive research culture to landing funding bids

Advice on how to give international students rich and inclusive learning experiences

What beginners need to know to thrive in every aspect of their university careers

Advice on student engagement and making your classes more dynamic

How the traditional university degree can be reimagined as a lifelong educational journey, enabling students to upskill and reskill throughout their lives

How to foster and protect freedom of thought, enquiry and expression in higher education

How to enhance support and advice services to improve student well-being and outcomes

How to encourage everyone on campus to participate in extracurricular actives to enrich personal and professional development

Faced with an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous – or VUCA – world, how can universities adapt and prepare themselves and their students to successfully navigate through turbulent times?

How to measure learning and protect academic integrity in the age of ChatGPT

How decolonisation can be applied and advanced across different areas of higher education

Advice from scholars to their younger selves about career, teaching and research

A guide to what knowledge exchange is, how it impacts institutions and their communities and helpful examples of knowledge exchange activities

Advice on creating a higher education system in which LGBTQ+ students, staff and faculty can thrive

Tips on composing everything from academic journal articles and book pitches to exam questions

Advice to help faculty and staff reframe and harness failure as a useful aid to learning and development

Find new ideas and inspiration for what your university can do to stand out in a crowd

Practices, methods and approaches to enrich teaching and improve learning outcomes

Insights and advice on how to see university campuses in a new light

A look at what steps can be taken within universities to better accommodate students and staff with disabilities

What faculty and universities need to know about intellectual property and commercialising research

Insights on how universities and colleges can uphold academic integrity among students and faculty

Advice on creating fairer and more accessible admissions systems that support wider participation in higher education

Advice for academics at every step of your career

Tips and advice on facing up to student attrition in higher education

A guide to the skills and techniques that constitute effective leadership within universities and academia

Advice from the most talented and innovative faculty and university staff in the UK and Ireland

Advice and insight on rebalancing the working week to give HE professionals time for the important things in life

Find out how to transform assessment from a grading instrument to a learning tool

Artificial intelligence is already impacting all areas of higher education. Here, academics from around the world look at AI’s benefits and its costs