The seven traits higher education leaders need to drive change

Higher education is facing 'massive consolidation’, write four US consultants, and leaders will need specific qualities to navigate their communities through mergers or institutional restructure

Ricardo Azziz, Lloyd Jacobs, Richard Katzman, Bonita Jacobs

Center for Higher Education Mergers and Acquisitions, University of North Georgia, University of Toledo, Augusta University

Mentoring in higher education

Four questions that help students take the lead in supervision meetings

The seven traits higher education leaders need to drive change

Strong labs are built on shared ownership – with students as collaborators

What’s in a name? How to build trust into a student mentor role

Personalised coaching could be the key to postgraduate resilience

Preparing students for the workplace? Alumni could be the key

How part-time lecturers can protect their professional identity

How academics can use coaching approaches to support students

How universities can boost staff diversity

What co-creation taught us about solving university problems together

Research supervision is about more than imparting knowledge – it’s mentorship

Build supervisory relationships that inspire, not just correct

Show graduate students how to identify careers beyond academia

Why professional development in graduate supervision matters

What established academics can learn from ECRs

A pedagogy of grief: dealing with loss in higher education

How sustained mentoring can drive international students’ success

Find purpose and identity in the ‘near-end’ season of an academic career

Maximise student satisfaction in creative education: part two

How financial literacy empowers first-generation students

How vertical tutoring builds community

How compassionate spaces support career development for graduate teaching assistants

Far from home, but not alone: peer mentoring to ease culture shock for international students

Can peer mentoring support under-represented students into postgraduate research?

Co-created research to boost a student mentoring scheme

University students need emotional support as well as intellectual challenge

What can university lecturers do to ease students’ exam anxiety?

Empower LBGTQ+ people to be their authentic selves on campus with Rainbow Office Hours

What’s the next step for widening participation? Make it personal

Three strategies to close the exam feedback gap

The challenge of building a diverse faculty in a world that has turned on diversity

Empowering academics for greater student success

Three reasons why university libraries are key to belonging

Use coaching to help students juggle the pressures of academic life

Peer review as a collegial approach to educator development

Level the playing field for student apprentices with ILPs

Is the tick-box structure of promotion preventing true collaboration?

Three ways to spot someone struggling – and six ways to support them

How to spark student start-ups

Are module leaders missing out on professional development?

Become a better mentor by asking yourself these questions

Universities need to move interdisciplinary professional associations to the next step

A recipe for effective undergraduate research mentorship

Five ways coaching can improve the university experience of Black students

Four ways to enhance the postgraduate student experience

Low-cost ways to support women academics

Supporting education-focused academics on the road less travelled

Encouragement and talent development for future scientists

How to succeed as an early career researcher? Be motivated and inspire others

Setting boundaries for teachers’ well-being