Why serious skills need serious play
Are your students struggling with role play? Game-based learning can offer structure, safety and feedback, especially when combined with AI support. Here’s how
August 5, 2026
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Supporting female academics in Sub-Saharan Africa to publish and lead
Five lessons from a Ghana-focused project that addressed the gendered conditions of academic work to give women the tools needed to participate fully and progress
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Why a unity lens is crucial in higher education
When institutions highlight that commitment to learning, research and service to the broader public good is shared across campus, they help students and educators see themselves as part of a collective endeavour rather than isolated participants
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Five ways to turn students from spectators into collaborators
Practical tips for transforming traditional assignments, research projects and graduate theses into opportunities to connect students with real-world stakeholders
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Six assessment types that support deep, real-world learning
If traditional assessment methods feel limited, Temesgen Kifle shares alternative ways to measure students’ understanding and ability to apply learning to authentic problems
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Let it evolve: five lessons from developing our own journal
When you launch a new academic journal, be prepared to learn as it develops and let it evolve over time, writes Natalia Azzi
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Juggling competing priorities in research collaborations
Bringing together cross-disciplinary research teams, government and industry on a single project will need strategic management from the beginning. Here’s how
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Treat outreach as an integral part of the research process
Universities often frame outreach as something that happens after research is complete. But when knowledge transfer is left to the end, impact becomes an afterthought. Mike Gutter explains
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Beyond checkbox training: how to build university faculty’s digital fluency
How can institutions align digital training with the realities of academic work, professional identity and institutional culture? Here, five academics suggest design principles for effective skills development
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What future-proofing a course really means
Instead of attempting to predict the future, future-proofing online courses is about making them easier to update, more inclusive and more useful to students, even as context changes
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Why diversity literacy is a research skill
As funders demand more inclusive and internationally collaborative projects, researchers and research managers need the skills to turn good intentions into meaningful practice, says Jakob Feldtfos Christensen
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What established academics can learn from technical staff
University research runs on the expertise of technicians, research software engineers, data stewards and core‑facility specialists. Treat them as strategic partners and your group’s quality, speed and compliance will improve
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Making space for Black voices in higher education
While higher education has talked a lot about EDI, are Black academics noticing the difference in their day-to-day lives? A conference gave them a space to reflect
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Why I use a dating analogy to teach complex pharmacology
Pharmacodynamics is one of the more difficult topics when educating students about the complexities of prescribing medicines. But parallels with sexual attraction and rivalry offer a low-tech way to ease learning apprehension
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Why subject-aligned career talks matter – and how to deliver them
Discipline-focused careers talks bring the labour market and recruitment practices into the classroom in a way that is based on speakers’ personal stories and experiences
July 30, 2026