By Thushari Welikala. Current university strategies aren’t working and fail to take into consideration that international students aren’t a homogenous bunch. More...

By Anthony Cummins. Tom Sperlinger’s account of teaching English literature to students in the occupied territories is an illuminating look at the wider role of education. More...

By Claire Shaw. Join the debate, sponsored by Dell and Intel, on Friday 10 July from 12-2pm GMT to discuss the pros and cons of tracking how students learn. More...

The UK’s universities can justifiably claim an outstanding international reputation, generating multiple direct and indirect benefits for society, and underpinning our core professions through training and education. Yet these attributes are being undermined and degraded from within and without, with innovation, creativity, originality and critical thought, as well as notions of social justice, being threatened by forces of marketisation demanding “competitiveness” and “efficiency” in teaching and research. This generates continuous pressures to standardise, conform, obey and duplicate in order to be “transparent” to measurement. More...

By Peter Scott. We need to increase differentiation – not by fighting over funding but by building networks and working together in solidarity. More...

By Bobby Duffy. People’s understanding of the cost of important life events is way out. This matters, so what can be done about it. More...

By Yasmin Ahmed. If you want to work in the competitive legal profession, having foreign language skills can help to set you apart. More...

By Steven Jones. A new way to measure teaching quality in universities could soon be on the cards. Here’s how to get it off to a good start. More...

By Claire Shaw. Academics and students respond to the chancellor’s 2015 budget announcement around changes to UK higher education. More...

By Emma Howard. University commits to moving all oil, coal and gas investments out of its 14m endowment, following two-year student-led campaign. More...