Personalized learning has long been a “holy grail” in education. Ideally, we would love to be able to work with each student to achieve a more personalized level of learning that taps into individual interests, skills and desires. More...
The strategy behind good neighbors: A mayor and higher ed president
Solid and productive town-gown relationships can be achieved if they are based in building community and in creating partnerships. Our professional paths came together in 2011 in Bowling Green, Ohio. More...
Let universities alert parents about students' struggles, says father
The father of a student who killed himself is calling for the relaxation of data protection rules that currently deter universities from alerting parents that their child has serious mental health problems. More...
Our children deserve protection on their painful route to adulthood
The father of a student who killed himself is right to demand that universities keep in contact with parents. More...
Glasgow School of Art: ‘It should have been the safest building’
The hosepipes snaked all the way down to the river Clyde, thick with water, as firefighters smothered the last of the flames on Friday night and into Saturday. While they worked, students and artists, architects and sculptors gathered in the streets around the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building – Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art nouveau masterpiece – to find out what had happened, and ask: four years after the Mack was devastated by fire, how could it happen again. More...
'It's dreadful to think what Glasgow might be without it': tributes to the School of Art
A fine art photography graduate, a Turner prize-winner and a former lecturer offer their thoughts on the Mackintosh building, devastated by fire again. More...
Glasgow School of Art: sprinklers had not been fitted after first fire
Hopes rise that Mackintosh facade can be saved amid questions over why sprinkler system was not prioritised. More...
Is competition driving innovation or damaging scientific research?
When a colleague with shaky data raced a competitor to be first to publish, I saw how the perverse incentives in research work. More...
Bulldoze or rebuild? Architects at odds over future of Glasgow School of Art
Ideas about what to do with the charred remains of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s range from restoration to a building ‘fit for the 21st century’. More...
University chiefs to be forced to justify pay
Action by universities’ regulator comes after outcry over salaries of some vice-chancellors. More...