The coronavirus pandemic has transformed universities. What will lectures and seminars look like in 2021?
March 2020
Tips for students
How to study at home during coronavirus – by online students and tutors
Here’s how to study effectively from home, according to those who have been doing it all along
February 2020
Fail productively… how to turn yourself into a super-learner
Whether you’re taking up the oboe or finessing your Finnish, scientific research offers tips to aid learning
November 2019
Hidden gems from the world of research
Not too difficult, not too easy… let’s learn the Goldilocks way
Torsten Bell
It turns out that the fairytale has a lot to tell adults about the most effective way of studying a new topic
October 2019
Young lives blighted by a lack of support
Letters: Children with special needs, their parents and their teachers are being failed by the system, write Dr Stephanie Williams and John Beer, while Robert Halfon MP describes the education committee’s proposals
November 2018
The profile
The only gay female Mexican mechanical engineer in Hereford is opening a university
You don’t need A-level maths to study engineering at Elena Rodriguez-Falcon’s university – but poetry or music would be handy
October 2018
You’re here to learn, not enjoy yourselves
Sans Forgetica is designed to help students remember, but you wouldn’t want to read a novel in the new font, says Nigel Harvey, while Katie Carter reckons on-the-spot oral exams would help stamp out plagiarism
August 2017
Teacher's blog
Bringing literature to life: the new GCSE syllabus has reinvigorated my students
Moving to a closed-book, exam-only system filled me with dread – but my students have worked harder than ever
Ten books every teacher should read
In the last decade, a wealth of books has brought together ideas to help teachers have the greatest impact on student learning. Here are just a few
The big lesson from the world's best school system? Trust your teachers
John Hart
Finnish education policies are praised highly, but the real success is the level of responsibility and autonomy given to teachers to do their jobs
November 2016
Tef: don't equate contact hours with teaching quality
Camille Kandiko Howson
In the age of Trump, why bother teaching students to argue logically?
David Tollerton
October 2016
Imagine a Tef that actually measured teaching excellence...
Paul Ashwin
If you were asked to build a system judging teaching in universities, wouldn’t you start by looking at the research on what works?
We are competing with universities worldwide – and we may well lose
Chris Husbands
The government’s threats against international students are putting the UK’s higher education sector at a huge disadvantage
'It's not a victimless crime' – the murky business of buying academic essays
Dr Thomas Lancaster
Students are spending as little as £20 for essays online, but the cost to academia is immeasurable. We need fight back against this damaging industry
September 2016
Think play is for nurseries, not universities? Think again
You might consider university students too old to play games in lectures, but it lets them experiment and deepen knowledge
July 2016
Don't turn students into consumers – the US proves it's a recipe for disaster
A J Angulo
Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure
June 2016
Changing career into higher education
Practice makes perfect: how to become a vocational lecturer
Real-world experience can be the perfect qualification for an academic job – but the change can be challenging. We asked the experts for advice
Academics anonymous
I've been dumped by the job I love
My university made me redundant in the kindest possible way, but I’m heartbroken. Now I have to reinvent myself yet again
University staff will be held to ransom by student consumers
Alex Campbell
Already overburdened, lecturers may buckle under a reformed system that places student satisfaction above all other measures
