Teaching and learning

As AI makes giant strides, threatening to digitise a whole host of graduate careers, the need to ensure that human employees can regularly upskill and retrain is more urgent than ever. An early pioneer of mass lifelong learning, does Singapore point the way forwards? Pola Lem reports from the Lion City

Unions representing full-time and adjunct faculty walk out at New Jersey’s three-campus 67,000-student system

Assessment needs rethinking, but ChatGPT et al could streamline processes, improve tutoring and highlight collaborations, says Nick Jennings

The aspiration is commendable, but the downsides of running short, flexible courses must be considered from the outset, says David Spendlove

Basing teaching around the fundamental challenges faced by society will benefit both the humanities and humanity itself, says Doug Haynes

To retain students, US institutions must give credit for learning that occurs in professional settings, say Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel

Universities should do all they can to expand students’ horizons by exposing them to the transcendentally vast, says Andy Tix

Fayneese Miller, university’s first black president, to retire after months of battling over propriety of Muhammad painting in art class

Focus on jobs and commercialisation inconsistent with sector’s ‘intrinsic purposes’, says Simon Marginson

V-c Wim de Villiers advocates multilingualism within higher education, but investigation finds university ‘violated rights’ of Afrikaans students

Grading fills students with anxiety and academics with guilt. It is the enemy of real education. Time for a rebellion, says Andy Farnell

OECD education director Andreas Schleicher urges shift towards lifelong learning, but says universities enjoy ‘nice monopoly rent’ from status quo

Former Cape Town v-c Mamphela Ramphele warns that higher education has been captured by elites and needs to prioritise tackling climate crisis

Focus on impact and deep evaluation far more important than whatever is in vogue, renowned education researcher says 

Retrofitting traditional assessment methods with more accessible and inclusive overlays is not the right way to go, says Katie Stripe

Students need to know the broad outlines of global imperial history if they are to judge claims for themselves. But, typically, they don’t, says Ian Pace

The honours system has too narrow a scope and too few grades. Why not embrace the Hear and the GCSE scale, asks Zahir Irani

Disappointing results from pilot scheme indicate a focus on 10-credit modules, rather than 30-credit courses, is the way forward, says Annabel Kiernan

Developed techniques to create virtual field trips are proving a boon to students’ education and morale, say Simon Hutchinson and Nataliia Popovych

Poll reveals how once ‘non-existent’ path to top tier of academia has now become ‘common’

Eerie AI simulations of academic writing show why student essays must return to their more imaginative and freewheeling roots, says Colm O’Shea

Planned departure from Western higher education will ‘limit Russian students’ exposure to outside world and democracy’, scholars warn

Forcing undergraduates to use AI chatbots as a learning tool will help students and educators, argues Dan Sarofian-Butin

A utilitarian approach to undergraduate education is leading to disenchantment among students and society. It is time to put ‘play’ at the heart of learning, says Colm O’Shea

Snap adoption of new teaching model, after half a century of gestation, shows that universities can get things done quickly

Evidence suggests that honesty pledges make cheating less pronounced than it otherwise would be, say Thomas Gift and Julie Norman

Most students got a higher-class degree at every major institution in 2021-22, data show

College Board promises essential new student exposure to black history, while battling accusations it allowed key politically motivated omissions

Education has been incorporating and reimagining the threats and possibilities of tech for decades. AI will be no different, says Paul Breen

Prodded by DeSantis, heads of all 28 campuses promise to hinder attempts to explain racial inequities to students

One in three degrees were firsts last year, but this is still above pre-pandemic levels

Delivery of educational material chunked at the optimal grade for retention by passive student-consumers is ripe for automation, says Andy Farnell

Ever more expensive boilerplate qualifications that may or may not connote genuine expertise are not what the world needs, says Valerie Sartor

As academia pushes to raise grades and completions among disadvantaged students, San Francisco professor shows value of Bandura, von Bertalanffy and kaizen

Supporters hope to spread benefits of the model, for years the preserve of a few progressive institutions, worldwide

After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for higher education? Some of the UK sector’s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023

With hostility from the Home Office over international student numbers, membership of Horizon Europe slipping away and heavy demands placed on institutions by regulators, UK university staff will be wondering how 2023 will play out. Patrick McGhee and Emma Rees read the runes

Students aiming for a Russell Group university were set up to fail by a pathways college – but then passed anyway, says Donald Short

Liberal arts programmes should be revamped and rebranded to emphasise the competencies they provide graduates entering the workplace, says Costas Spirou

Helping students create climate-conscious start-ups would enhance campus learning and universities’ green credentials, says Robert Phillips

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou

Growth of chapters seen in the 1990s has tailed off, and they are increasingly pushed towards the back

Some research presentations by practitioners are more akin to sales pitches than free enquiry, says Ian Pace

Professor known for statements widely perceived as racist has had low class sign-ups for several years, suggesting campus verdict ahead of formal sanction review

Shadow health secretary backing a Policy Exchange blueprint for growing doctor numbers, including the creation of up to 15 new medical schools

We need to prepare students to thrive in a world where they use AI but are not dependent on it, says Mike Groves

More than half of those polled by Hepi and NUS express support for education designed with employment in mind

Those forced to surrender their technology at the door show higher rates of comprehension and mindfulness, plus less anxiety

Faculty need to find ways of seizing back the control that’s been wrested from them in the past few decades, says Gayle Greene

The country’s cultural deference to authority means students lack the courage and the motivation to challenge current thinking, says Aus Abdulwahhab

Thousands of students participated in the Ucas survey on digital resources

Language Policy Framework seeks to integrate the country’s 11 official languages into higher education

President of Lebanese American University explains how refugee focus has made interdisciplinary courses more relevant and engaging

Shorter online lectures work better, says former World Bank higher education director Francisco Marmolejo

AI is close to being able to write students’ essays for them. But that will not help them understand why they think what they think, says Jane Rosenzweig

New university pathway meant to boost talent, but academics concerned over graduate retention

Technology will never be properly integrated into teaching if it is seen as separate from the physical classroom, says David Puttnam

Authors say Omani findings could help drive education reform

The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists’ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about, says Sioux McKenna