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More UK undergraduates see courses as value for money in 2024, with international students driving much of the increase

Perhaps AI will be a useful tool. But our obsession with every shiny new object regardless of the harm it might do makes me worry, says Melinda Zook

Course cuts will ¡®revitalise¡¯ language offerings, make students more employable and ¡®address global challenges¡¯, university claims

Getting up and moving around during classes leads to increased attention and more enjoyment, research finds

Number of English-medium degrees on offer outside traditional anglophone destinations increases by 48 per cent in five years

Chinese leader calls for greater alignment of degree programmes with the country¡¯s workplace needs

First international conference on how jokes can improve teaching in higher education was inspired by a lecturer¡¯s drab college course

Whether targets of sexualised attention or audience members, students lack power to divert harmful classroom dynamics, says Mary Peterson

The head of Nanyang Technological University leverages the institution¡¯s youthful vigour to put AI at the heart of learning and uses his research background to inform his leadership and help recruit potential Nobel prizewinners

Acknowledging Aboriginal intellectual traditions could ¡®bring students back¡¯ while improving weather forecasts, says co-creator of new course

Staff fear not only for their own research time but also for students¡¯ long-term retention of information, says a De Montfort academic

Graduates who can¡¯t think critically without electronic assistance will be at a distinct disadvantage in the workplace, says Lo?c Pl¨¦ 

Sector leaders call for rethink of teaching methods to prepare students for changing world of work

The head of Hong Kong Baptist University shares his solution to the rapidly changing jobs market

Overseas students¡¯ respect for learning helps restore some of the authority that consumerism has stripped from UK academics, says Rania Hafez

Climate change is ¡®exacerbating almost every type of illness¡¯, and health graduates of all stripes must be geared up for it

Moving beyond ¡®chalk-and-talk¡¯ can have significant benefits, but many lecturers remain wary

Effective digital learning requires more than a camera in a classroom, says Ghanaian e-learning leader Eric Appau Asante

Simplistic analyses belie the complex evolution of students, instruction, reading practices, college regulations and communications media, says Harvey Graff

UK universities that have made the switch to different teaching model say it boosts student retention and recruitment but staff burnout is real risk

Institutions ¡®got it wrong¡¯ by putting all the attention on assessment when large language models first launched, say experts

Changing term dates leaves staff fearing extra workload pressures and encroachments on research time and summer breaks

Researchers at Paul Smith¡¯s College designed a VR version of a local forest trail using the same graphic engine as popular video game Fortnite

Universities must gear themselves up to deal with an activity that has ¡®evolutionary roots¡¯, academic integrity expert argues

Lack of innovation rewards mean lousy lectures live on, says Harvard University educationalist behind flipped learning

While US prison reform campaigners celebrate reversal of 30-year ban on incarcerated students accessing Pell Grants, counterparts in England and Wales express concern that government inaction has stalled progress

With 3,000 graduate students picketing for higher pay, Boston University dean encourages faculty to ¡®think creatively¡¯ about using technological alternatives

AI lecturers have the potential to free up academics¡¯ time and create more immersive learning environments, but institutions are treading cautiously when it comes to introducing the technology into classrooms

College courses based on Swift and other pop stars grow quickly in US, promising academic value for instructors battling to maintain weakened attention spans

With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison

Mounting evidence of success leads to nationwide explosion of system that lets students take regular courses while filling gaps in their learning

Recruiting underprepared students is damaging the classroom experience and is soul-crushing for teachers, says a UK lecturer

If slides substitute for note-taking, students will not develop vital skills. Let¡¯s not underestimate their ability to develop them, says Tobiasz Trawi¨½ski

Minister calls on universities to learn lessons from last year¡¯s disruption at Commons hearing

Russian studies is one of many disciplines that can and should loudly tell the story of how authoritarianism strips people of citizenship, says Ani Kokobobo

Growing use of chatbots within higher education is likely to foster unoriginal and ¡®solipsistic¡¯ thought, says IE president

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist

Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector

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

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

Survey finds evidence of ¡®emerging digital divide¡¯ as majority of undergraduates say they use generative AI to help with assessments

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