By John Warner. Noble prizewinner and Stanford physicist Carl Wieman has taken the next step on his mission to transform undergraduate teaching with the publication of Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative, which lays out the results of Wieman’s multi-year effort to move undergraduate science instruction beyond the “big lecture.” More...
Third of university students say courses are poor value
Figure has doubled in five years, and students from minority backgrounds are among the least satisfied, survey shows. More...


