One of Britain’s biggest research universities is to introduce radical changes to the way it teaches undergraduates.
Michael Arthur, president and provost of University College London, will tell its academics that the quality of their teaching must rise. He told The Times that any university that failed to prioritise undergraduate teaching risked damaging recruitment because bright applicants would look elsewhere.
His overhaul of UCL will be watched closely in other British universities, especially in other city-based research institutions that traditionally get lower scores in student satisfaction surveys than smaller campus universities.
UCL was the biggest winner of UK research council grants last year. Its researchers were awarded grants worth £135 million, well ahead of Cambridge with £104 million, Imperial College London with £102 million and