"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think," said Socrates in a statement that might describe the university tutorial today. Students need contact time with lecturers to develop ...

Students from around the world are being offered the chance to study their degree in a virtual paradise. A growing number of universities in Britain are setting up campus on Second Life, the ...

Juliehenry 29 November 2009 • 8:00am Oxford University said it will require an alternative source of cash to continue its tutorial system Credit: Photo: IAN JONES Cash to higher education will be ...

One parent highlights the need for weekly tutorials to pre-empt crises among those studying remotely One thing that universities could do to stem the downward spiral of student mental health as they ...

The union that represents teaching assistants at Canada’s biggest school, the University of Toronto, wants the public to know about the ballooning student-instructor ratios in the tutorials and labs ...