Teaching and learning

Chinese institution says it wants to nurture ‘master-level strategic scientists’

AI will make courses cheaper to deliver, more professionally relevant and more pedagogically effective, says Max Lu 

Norwegian Medical Association says failure to recognise Danish training breaches European Economic Area law

Cryptocurrencies will change the landscape of international finance. We can no longer think of money as a background phenomenon, says Richard Holden

Researchers blame enduring influence of fossil fuel producers on university governance

The nature of the job differs dramatically depending on how one physically presents. Teaching support needs to catch up, says Hannah Kim

Endless accommodations and coaxing are only encouraging student uninterest and indolence, says Michael Baumann

Implementation of 1996 law comes as new emir accedes to throne of oil-rich state

Union and employer body clash on ways to prevent more industrial action as they appear in front of MPs investigating impact of last year’s marking boycott

Survey finds evidence of ‘emerging digital divide’ as majority of undergraduates say they use generative AI to help with assessments

Universities begin to phase out module feedback exercises in favour of less formal check-ins and peer reviews

With careful prompting, the AI can offer personalised tutoring that helps students understand where they need to go, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

OfS publishes latest minister-ordered business and management course investigations, finding ‘concerns’ at Bucks New and Wolverhampton

Difficulties experienced during OfS short-course trial show universities will have to work far harder to attract students, say sector leaders

Professors from different disciplines will join forces to tackle big societal questions

Providers enrol just 6 per cent of 2,000 student target for short courses, says evaluation ahead of lifelong learning entitlement launch

Study explores under-researched aspect of ‘hidden curriculum’ that might affect racial inequalities at universities

During every teaching session, students’ minds inevitably wander. We need to accommodate this part of the learning process, too, says Brad Evans

Financial strain shrinks risk appetite, but Kingston is teaching and assessing the skills employers crave as a core part of every subject, says Steven Spier

Gen Z students need immediate, practical courses in how to distinguish fact from opinion and assess online sources’ credibility, says Eli Gottlieb

Russell Group university will treble its graduate medicine intake by training students on England’s south coast

Institution once attended by MrBeast, YouTube’s highest-paid content creator, among those seeking to serve growing industry

Persistent classroom absences attributed to online hype, mental stress, adjunct reliance and job-centric mindsets

Even if university leaders are not experts in the technology, the potential is clear – and they might be able to draw on the ‘wisdom of ignorance’

Sector predicted to grow significantly in next decade, spurring a flurry of research and start-up activities

AI agents are what they ingest. Rather than scraping the internet, better to confine their diets to books and encyclopedias, says Sorin Adam Matei

Campuses across the country tightening in-class rules, seeking to boost student engagement

Funding and focus on job training blamed as five major European languages lose around a fifth of their enrolment in five years

Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ‘defensive’ over students’ use of ChatGPT, researchers say

Saudi Arabia’s KAUST leads table for the first time, driven by its research performance

Conference attendees discuss how to respond to the ‘600-pound gorilla in the room’ on university teaching

Event hears how even the best performing students can struggle to get a job if they lack soft skills

Recruitment of domestic school-leavers is stagnant amid concerns over rising graduate debt levels and weak employment outcomes. With ministers keen to turbocharge enrolment to upskill the nation, John Ross examines how higher education institutions can win back a disaffected generation

Australian study highlights gap between ‘statistically significant’ and ‘meaningful’

Lancet report says learning about medics’ role in the Holocaust could help students develop their own moral reasoning

Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching – but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ‘can use Excel’

I tell students that I want to make them my academic integrity collaborators, upholding the quality of their own education, says Kenneth Worthy

Bizarre riffs about The Karate Kid or the Wu-Tang Clan may irritate his students, but ‘strategic vexing’ can promote the more adventurous educational mindset that undergraduates require in the age of ChatGPT, says Jose Marichal 

Academics could cooperate to decommercialise publishing so that all students have affordable access to reliable information, says Michael Wynn-Williams

Ventilation issues have forced Sheffield to move away from offering students the chance to work on donor bodies. Can virtual reality replace a centuries-old tradition?

Extensive comparison of course descriptions to actual syllabuses shows persistent silos, with highest cost for science students

Nurturing investigative skills will make for a better democracy – even if it embarasses campus administrators in the process, says Harvey Graff

Amid concerns about value for money and the supposed liberal bias of certain humanities and social science subjects, conservative politicians are increasingly intervening in curricular decisions. Do such subjects still have a place at public universities – and who should get to decide, asks Paul Basken

Women are given less time on equipment and more administrative duties than men in mixed gender laboratory groups, new research indicates

While academics may be dismissive, the process helps their professional colleagues recognise their own scholarly contributions, say four of them

Hesa figures suggest uptake has hit record high, with more scholars on teaching and research contracts having a teaching qualification than those employed as teaching-only

Michael Fung, a former deputy chief executive of Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme, takes his methodology to Mexico and the developing world

Decision might be politically motivated but will do little to help science graduates, researcher suggests

Upskiling staff to thrive in clean-energy industries could mostly benefit graduates and high-skill workers, Andreas Schleicher tells conference

Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities’ future, leaders tell THE summit

Students want to be on campus but they still need a reason to go there, summit hears

Metaverse campuses may be needed to alleviate loneliness of ‘personalised learning at scale’ driven by AI, Anant Agarwal tells THE summit

Using AI, a teacher with little coding experience could design a virtual environment to deliver a specific lesson to a specific student, says Nick Clegg

We support the idea but it needs funding, New Zealand universities say

Focusing on the quality of in-person teaching is only one way to make returning to physical campuses more appealing, says Carolyn Evans

After accreditor allows tests of shorter bachelor’s degree programmes, officials say they see no federal mandate on time or credit hours

Authors of Swedish study caution that one experiment should not be used as basis for ‘radical overhaul’ of education policy but urge ‘more informed discussion’

So far few oppose the inclusion of climate change sociology and economics in university-wide undergraduate courses, but support is thinner for their integration into other curricula

English regulator expresses concern about staffing levels and academic misconduct protections on business and management courses

University of Southern Queensland head makes case for teaching students in remote towns regionally to keep them and their skills in the community