LSE Higher Education Blog

Are education development centres service units or scholarly centres? Academic partners or administrative apparatus? This identity crisis undermines their vital work, argue Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt – and here's how to resolve it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

The academic contract is changing. The residential model is dying. But university strategies still assume both will survive with minor tweaks. Time for a reality check, says Huw Morris blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Are academics complicit in authoritarian encroachment? There are three myths about scholarly life under autocratic pressure that academics use to let themselves off the hook, writes Tamas Ziegler blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Creating an environment for open dialogue in higher education has never been more challenging – or more essential. These five posts explore how educators create space for difficult conversations and conflicting perspectives. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

For our last post of the year, academics from across the world reflect on the top HE stories in 2025. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio… Comment below to share your 2025 HE picks! ⭐️

Must classrooms always be boring? Listen to our latest podcast, hosted by Ijeoma Njaka, and hear from three academics who are doing things differently, from taking a writing class onto a basketball court to filling seminar rooms with works of art. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, Thomas Graves explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

In the third and final segment of his interview, LSE President and Vice-Chancellor Larry Kramer explains the optics of protest on campus and how it might be viewed by alumni, donors, and the government — “… nothing about that is more or less ‘British’.” blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

“Self-expression shouldn’t become more important than human relationships,” says LSE President & Vice-Chancellor Larry Kramer in Part Two of a conversation with the LSE HE Blog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio… @LSEnews

Larry Kramer, President and Vice-Chancellor of the LSE, advocates for thoughtful debate and explains why he'll never condemn lawful speech in the first of a three-part interview with the LSE Higher Education Blog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio… 🎥youtube.com/shorts/3ypbn5W… @LSEnews

“Rather than only teaching content that challenges dominant perspectives,” Moé Suzuki feels the role of the teacher is to engage with a range of perspectives that emerge in the classroom. Read more on our blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio… What do you think the role of the teacher is?

Are the students in your classroom as free to speak as you think they are? Chen-Ta Sung explores the paradox of diverse classrooms inhibiting diverse viewpoints, resulting in a spiral of silence - for educators as well as students. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Today's complex challenges call out for interdisciplinary thinking - and such courses are growing in popularity. But great interdisciplinary teaching is about much more than adding disciplines and stirring, says LSE100 co-director Jillian Terry blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

The awarding gap is not a neutral metric, says Josephine Gabi. Racially minoritised students are structurally marginalised by the metrics used to assess their success – but shifting from gap-thinking to debt-thinking could make a difference: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

How free are academics? Katrin Kinzelbach, principal investigator of the Academic Freedom Index, addresses the current state of academic freedom and the threats it faces in this stimulating interview with Tamas Dezso Ziegler blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Universities collect student voice through surveys but ignore it when it challenges their decisions, says Moé Suzuki. Is there another way? blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Have we reached PhD saturation point? With doctoral student demand outstripping supply of academic jobs, it’s time for governments, universities, and prospective PhD students themselves to take action to avoid regret, says LSE HE Blog Fellow Huw Morris blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Confessions of a Luddite teacher: @annvyshinsky sets out the case for edtech pessimism as she swims against the tide in a higher education environment replete with learning technology blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Is the lure of AI blinding universities to the power of the tools already in its pockets, Nick McIntosh asks. Perhaps higher education needs a reality check when it comes to tech blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

Tamas Dezso Zeigler explains that we must understand government interventions in higher education in order to “resist [government] efforts to impose a uniform ideological framework within academia." blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…