Voices
When the UN set eight Millennium Development Goals for the world to reach by 2015, one was universal primary education. Jo Beall argues that the UN must include higher education also.
If you are a student in the UK who’s planning to teach in Thailand in 2014 through the British Council’s Thailand English Teaching Project, read this advice by Charlotte Ogilvie.
Brits have a reputation for being poor linguists, so a group of UK institutions, including the British Council, launched a campaign last week to encourage everyone to learn another language.
Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian) claims that university students are the ‘latest batch of guinea pigs in an experiment that has already largely failed’. John Bramwell disagrees.
High illiteracy rates and rigid gender roles are just two of the many challenges for the women of South Sudan.
Janice Mulholland explores how the phenomenon of massive open online courses,or MOOCs, which offer free, large-scale access to courses via the web, may affect higher education.
Gary Motteram explains how the arrival of digital technologies in the classroom has helped learning.
Access to clean water should not be taken for granted. Researcher Erin O'Donnell explains why.
Halley VI is the UK’s most recent research station in Antarctica. Hugh Broughton talks about the design, the interiors and how he responded to architectural problems in this context.
With more and more international students taking courses at overseas branches of UK universities, what role does the host countries’ policy environment play?