Grades improve when students lead learning
Academics at Avans University in the Netherlands revamp seminars to promote student engagement
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50 maxims for market entrants
Christopher Bigsby offers some words of advice
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REF panels must blend citation and publication data
A weighted approach is the best bet for assessment, say Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi
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FutureLearn plans to stand out from Mooc crowd
UK platform aims to make up for late start via ‘social architecture’
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Welsh universities commit to sharing course material online
OER drive by nation’s institutions will save lecturers time
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Fracking research: playing with fire?
To avoid conflicts of interest, academic research must be transparent and independently funded, says Cary Nelson
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Liberalising student numbers: don’t stop at ABB
Reform must go all the way, argues Bill Rammell
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Light or dark, still blue
Siana Bangura defends a “holistic” Oxbridge application process but offers no evidence to support her claims (Letters, 29 August). Peter Millican serves up a flawed thesis on the benefits of...
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Philistine spirit of today’s political age
When Joe Hockey, the Liberal Party opposition Treasury spokesman, ridiculed an Australian Research Council-funded project on the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (“The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian...
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News in brief - 19 September 2013
Transcontinental research collaborationUS leads in long-distance affairsUS academics are more likely to work with peers outside America than European researchers are to link up with those outside...
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The week in higher education - 19 September 2013
An unlikely bunch of larger-than-life characters have come together to save the Earth from destruction. No, it’s not the plot for the new Marvel superheroes blockbuster but a task force put together...
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Lib Dems back fees but still aspire to abolition
Amended policy accepts £9,000 charges in short term
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Israeli wins compensation but loses bias case
OIA orders Warwick to pay £1,000 but finds no evidence that Smadar Bakovic was marked down unfairly
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How part-time PhD students view research culture
Universities may need to do more to integrate part-time students into their research culture, a survey suggests