Teaching and learning

The academy should be a safe haven for ignorance – provided it is accompanied by a willingness to be respectfully challenged, says Nic Smith

Research aims to gather evidence on whether international links with autocratic states pose threat to UK academic freedom

Offering the opportunity to iteratively paraphrase copied content to lower similarity scores is nothing to do with education, says Július Kravjar

Vertical campus ‘well suited’ to small group teaching, as students navigate degrees one block at a time

Running Bristol programme online still helped with student well-being compared with control group, study suggests 

As politicians begin to confront America’s student debt crisis, Charlie Eaton explains how public opinion turned so decisively against the financialisation of US higher education and why full loan cancellation is now on the cards

Open access champion also proposes an IB for universities, as competition gives way to collaboration  

Partnership and co-creation should be a permanent part of UK campus life, says report

Despite China’s rise, even the country’s government recognises that English usage is irrevocable, say Philip Altbach and Gerard Postiglione

TEDI-London will strive not to conform to teaching orthodoxies despite pressures from founders and regulators, says its dean

Marketing students in business schools increasingly demand to be taught to use audio-visual software, says Emmanuel Mogaji

The Novak Djokovic affair underlines the need to teach that openness to error is the baseline of knowledge, say Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham

Two years of low-quality online provision has left one stranded international student homeless, unemployed and heartbroken

Figures could prompt further concerns over whether pandemic-era grading uplift is now ‘baked in’

Roles seek to counter dominance of publication metrics in promotion, but scholars say research should remain primary path to career progression

The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology president discusses project-based learning, securing government funding and demographic decline

The technological objectification of thought plagued education long before classes were conducted over Zoom, says Kishore Saval

Classroom skills that previously came naturally to lecturers and students can become very rusty in the online environment, says Christopher Hallenbrook 

Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal, warns Johnny Rich

Watching online lectures at faster speeds does not significantly impede understanding and may allow students more time to revise, say researchers

Higher education must acknowledge the extra workload that comes with higher education in the digital era, says Christopher Schaberg

Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers

Perhaps it is only by recasting an agreement as an adventure that professors can respond to the urgency of our times, says Robert Zaretsky

Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper

The UK minister’s demand that universities stick to face-to-face lectures is a step backwards for education, says Wendy Garnham

The historian raised in a military family talks about her interest in both war and community, and the formative class which shaped that

Teaching modules intensively, rather than in parallel, has had positive results at the handful of institutions that have tried it. But would it work for all students and all subjects? And would academics trade autonomy in course design for more research time? Anna McKie reports

Creating unique datasets for online exams preferable to ‘naive’ honour codes or faulty online surveillance, experts say

Enlisting miscreants to help improve understanding of contract cheating, as part of their punishment, could be a way forward, says Kholah Yaruq Malik

Ontario parliament demands documents over university’s unprecedented bankruptcy, though analysis may turn to realities of bankrolling remote communities

Australian universities’ ongoing embrace of digital approaches is cheapening learning – but not in a good way, says Binoy Kampmark

System acknowledges inviting SAT and ACT results for course placement, as Berkeley analysis shows nationwide racial bias in post-admissions sorting

Government promises response to review’s other recommendations ‘in due course’

The National University of Singapore president says changing mindsets has been the most challenging aspect of overhauling approach to education

Negative connotations attached to ‘liberal’ and ‘arts’ have created a misleading perception of a transformative education model that delivers for students, say Barbara Altmann and Jeffrey Nesteruk

Jisc survey reveals staff feel innovation in remote learning is where they need more help 

Our review won’t work until you ‘get on with’ the last one, former v-cs tell government

Academics and estates teams must work together to drive through the linked changes in infrastructure and teaching

York leader tells THE Campus Live that ‘tattoo parlours had much more notice’ of Covid restrictions than students

Saikat Majumdar surveys developments from the Gulf to South Korea in light of the closure of Yale-NUS College

A group of undergraduates who got together to build a racing car taught Nic Smith how much horsepower there is in community

Both industry and academia in New Zealand need people who can look past traditional subject boundaries, says Catherine Whitby

Breadth of study and ‘authentic learning communities’ can transform many different dimensions of graduates’ lives

Research at undergraduate level engages students and helps keep the academic pipeline flowing

Meeting the Confucian approach halfway will protect student recruitment and might even stimulate a new politics of mutual benefit, says Paul Breen

Allowance needed for ‘upfront’ time cost of creating digital content, event hears

UCL president says the move back to in-person teaching has been complicated by huge costs sunk into digital learning

Ghanaian university president Patrick Awuah says local academics and students should welcome expertise that remotely based scholars bring

Universities should ensure all students, including in sciences, can access ‘great humanities education’, Berkeley dean tells THE summit

Discounts, chatbots, money-back guarantees are tricks in contract cheating websites’ promotional armoury

A major new survey underlines the value that students derived from flipped learning during the pandemic, says Harriet Dunbar-Morris

Academia should look to business-linked Israeli universities as a model for change, according to energy boss Francesco Starace

Half of respondents to survey admit cheating overall, but only 21 per cent of students from Singapore own up

In the first of our new ‘talking leadership’ interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about democracy and encourage them to contest ideas

UK Engagement Survey finds less than two-thirds of undergraduates feel universities ensured quality of academic experience during Covid-19

New Zealand’s embrace of Māori vocabulary goes hand-in-hand with the incorporation of Māori understandings into curricula. But is a debate about the unintended consequences of this move being stifled by fear of speaking out? John Ross reports

From undergraduate engagement to teacher training and graduate salaries, universities lack statistics needed to track student outcomes, say Hamish Coates and Xi Gao

Changing university curricula to reflect challenges of climate change will inspire students, not lofty environmental commitments, says Daniella Tilbury

Vast majority of respondents to THE survey say ‘sage on the stage’ still has a place, despite experience of online teaching during pandemic

‘Slow and steady’ approach can help avoid ‘chaos’ as Indian institutions gain greater autonomy, Yogesh Singh tells THE