Teaching and learning

Making geology more tangible can spark curiosity in the field and help students learn the skills needed to address global issues such as climate change, resource management and natural hazards. Kate Pedley walks through an interactive garden

Good ideas often appear in the quiet moments we don’t count as work. David Thompson argues for protecting incubation time and for helping students rediscover the value of disconnection

In the digital age, trust is no longer built solely on performance metrics. It is forged in the careful stewardship of data — especially in education, where the stakes are uniquely high. Universities and schools hold some of the most sensitive records in modern society: intellectual work, personal data, assessment histories. This information deserves more than nominal safeguards. It requires systems designed from the ground up to protect it.

StrikePlagiarism.com offers institutions advanced tools for verifying originality and ensuring transparency in every submission. One of the core features is the detailed similarity reporting system that highlights matched fragments inside both internet sources and domestic databases.

RefBooks, developed by StrikePlagiarism.com and integrated into StrikePlagiarism.com, stands as one of the world’s most extensive scientific databases dedicated to safeguarding originality across education, publishing, and research.

With the advent of GenAI, higher education has pronounced the essay dead. Benito Cao argues there are signs of life – and explains how to protect its integrity

A scenario-based assessment method that promotes authentic learning can curb over-reliance on AI and build students’ professional communication skills. Here is a guide to interactive orals

Universities are expected to produce job-ready graduates, but many partnerships with industry remain ad hoc. Building deeper, more deliberate relationships with employers is key to developing stronger regional talent pipelines

Providing a supportive learning culture for students will make them less likely to cheat – and discussion forums, with a few tweaks, may be the way to do it

Too many students – and some educators – misunderstand what critical thinking entails. Here, Marie Paretti explains why engineering students in particular struggle with open-ended problems, and how educators can design experiences that help them learn to think in context