The library’s role in reducing the attainment gap
Read about strategies aimed at closing attainment gaps, such as peer mentoring, inclusive resources and academic skills training to support students
June 5, 2025
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Strategic silencing: how censorship is reshaping scholarly discourse
Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes Alison Hicks
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Higher education’s bumpy road to net zero
How universities and academics can ensure rhetoric translates to action on the climate crisis
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Use art to cultivate business students’ understanding of climate change
Find out how a transdisciplinary project using drawing and art deepens business students’ understanding of sustainability, inspiring them to become climate champions
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AI-proof project-based assessments by making them context-specific
Project-based assessments rooted in real-world, institution-specific contexts help reduce over-reliance on GenAI by emphasising collaboration, oral defence and critical thinking. Learn how to design one effectively
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Key terms you should know to advance net zero goals across the university
Achieving net zero on college campuses is an ambitious target, but with targeted strategies, universities can help their community integrate sustainability practices into campus language and experiences
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Use coaching to help students juggle the pressures of academic life
Academic expectations and personal responsibilities are crushing students’ mental health. Could coaching offer them a way to take control of their own learning?
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Active, applied and authentic learning: a model that builds skills and agency
Learn how the AAA model improved student engagement and learning outcomes in a logistics and supply chain programme, and how its principles apply across disciplines
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‘This is going to hurt’: taking the pain out of group assessment
Group assessment can be seen as unfair and unwieldy, but it also teaches essential skills such as teamwork and collaboration. We owe it to our students to frame it in a way that allows them to see its benefits
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Making space to reimagine the campus of the future
Faye Bowser, vice-president of higher education vertical at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, on ushering in a new era of campus design
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Who’s the most sustainable? Get your students competing to be climate champions
Tap into your students’ interests and make climate action fun and competitive. Elliott Brown outlines how
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Workforce-ready, not left behind: inclusive work-based learning for sciences students
Many science students miss out on quality placements because of systemic barriers. Read five ways universities can embed equitable, work-based learning into non-accredited programmes and level the field
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International students don’t need ‘fixing’
To internationalise education, and not just enrolments, educators need to move feedback on academic language from correction to collaboration. Here Nashid Nigar offers a framework for rethinking inclusion through literacy diversity
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International learning experiences boost skill development and employability
Short-term international travel can enhance student outcomes by offering a more accessible and cost-effective alternative to long-term study abroad programmes
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Flip-Zoom-open: how Covid and AI transformed my classroom
Maybe the uncertainty of the pandemic resulted in a few positives to university teaching? Here, Perry Binder reflects on lockdown’s seismic shifts
May 30, 2025