Teaching and learning

A new condensed master’s will be offered by NMITE among other curriculum innovations

An embarrassing incident led academic and sex blogger Katie Beswick to reflect on the risks and rewards of being open online

Sector bodies and institutions respond to latest NSS results

Scores that will inform teaching excellence framework may herald rise of ‘new elite’

LinkedIn co-founder, a Nobel laureate and more than 10 university presidents among high-profile speakers at Times Higher Education’s flagship event 

Higher education needs to embrace the positives of AI, not just look at the negatives, says Rose Luckin

US ranking will focus on student experience and outcomes

Sub-Saharan Africa’s first online university will help other institutions in the region to embrace technology, says co-founder

Move by Hamilton College in New York sparks discussion about prescriptive attempts to change curricula

The Sainsbury review represents a huge opportunity for UK universities, while institutions across the world can reap the rewards of vocational courses, says Martin Hall

De Montfort University is asking staff to record their lectures to help students with disabilities

Do universities need to rethink what they do and how they do it now that artificial intelligence is beginning to take over graduate-level roles?

To effectively embed experiential learning, the whole university needs to buy into the idea, says Trisha Craig

Whether or not Moocs live up to the hype, technology’s impact on universities is real and growing, Stanford University’s John Hennessy tells Ellie Bothwell

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK’s ability to compete for the world’s best PhD students

Alan Ruby sings the praises of the less-heralded face of US higher education

Academics gave ghostwritten papers good marks in Australian study

A literature module developed at Brunel University London has moved away from the traditional essay format and embraced the digital age

Campus collections have found new audiences and roles, but they still face significant questions, says Nicholas Thomas

Times Higher Education’s debut event on universities’ innovation and impact will be held in partnership with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Keith Williams eulogises a colleague who always put his students first and ‘kept the flame of old-fashioned scholarly virtues burning’

University of Hertfordshire modules are marking how well classmates encourage each other to participate

Focus on teaching in proposed framework ignores its primary role as extra quality assurance tool, claims researcher

Alice Bonasio on why it is finally time for virtual learning, and how Second Life never really went away

Many people felt that journalism failed them in its coverage of the EU referendum, writes Martin Buckley. Should things be done differently in the lecture hall?

Degree attainment was a strong indicator of pro-Remain views, stressing the importance of making HE available to all who want it, writes Peter Horrocks

Staff raise ‘serious reservations’ about the impact of proposal to record tutorials

Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ‘contracts to educate’

Chief executive of FE provider NCG said motivation for getting degree-awarding powers was ‘taking control’ of its own HE provision

Our data team’s modelling of the potential teaching excellence framework results shows the Russell Group losing out to a new elite

THE analysis of core metrics suggests small campus universities and post-92s could outperform Russell Group institutions

Steve Kang says he wants to challenge East Asian 'uni-directional' tradition of education where students simply 'prepare for the test'

The Dutch binary system, with its distinction between research-oriented and professional higher education, is a good thing, says Martin Paul.

HEA survey suggests that institutions are waiting on TEF details before deciding whether to adopt more granular method of degree classification

Danish academic says that building a knowledge economy is no longer a ‘dominant wish’ for country leaders

Quality Assurance Agency says university should even out disparity in number of tutorials and essays set by colleges

Figure described as ‘tip of the iceberg’ of new system’s price tag

Stop clinging to the way you’ve always done things and work a little smarter, says Chris Moore

The National Student Survey, one of the pillars of the TEF, is more likely to measure enjoyment than learning, says Wolfgang Stroebe

Concerns over low contact hours and delays in handing back assignments loom large in Hepi/HEA survey

Krzysztof Rybiński on changing Narxoz University’s culture and the lure of ‘the best meat in the world’

With truly immersive headsets now on the market, academics are beginning to explore how to use the technology for teaching

Beware reliance on teaching excellence framework metrics, says Claire Taylor

Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’

Charles Bailyn's time in Asia has opened his eyes to the high regard in which a liberal arts education is still held internationally

Institution-level statistics will be ‘too generic’, THE/HEA webchat hears

High-profile literary critic once described as “Australia’s most distinguished woman” was the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney

David Matthews reports from Canada on a model that gives students up to two years in work placements

Ministers press ahead with plans to assess institutions despite warnings from research they commissioned

Misty Bentz is the inventor of ‘Phynd the Physicist’, a game designed to open dialogue among students about inclusion

Study says that staff and students are uncertain about how to maximise the educational potential of flexible teaching spaces

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

Tim Blackman’s vision of higher education for the 21st century is one in which students of varying abilities learn successfully together

Academics do not always publicise their work, says senior academic administrator at Moroccan university 

Vice-chancellors remain concerned about reputation impact of dividing universities into three tiers

Government postpones introduction of differential fee caps in response to higher education sector concerns

Matthew Hartley ponders how prestigious (and pricey) colleges can justify their course costs

Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama

Hepi calls for action on sector’s gender gap to tackle male ‘underachievement’

A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years