Send for the Fixperts: designers helping the public with everyday problems
Got a problem at home you can't fix yourself? A new designer service might just be able to help
Whirlwind tour for school food blogger Martha Payne
Observer Food Monthly award winner raised £120,000 for African schools charity – and she's only nine, reports Tracy McVeigh
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best food blog: NeverSeconds
How eight million visitors and a press scandal helped nine-year-old Martha Payne raise enough money to feed 10,000 children in Malawi for a year. By Jay Rayner
Academic blogging: the power and the pitfalls – live chat
How can academics best use blogging to research and rehearse their ideas, network with peers and boost their careers? Join our live chat on Friday, 19 October from 12pm BST
Meet GoldieBlox: the toy designed to get girls interested in engineering
In a world of pink princesses and boy builders, is this an important new role model or a continuation of the stereotype?
Is your Facebook page a lie?
Everyone tries to show what a great time they're having at uni. But lots of people aren't happy at all – especially fashion students
Live-tweeting at academic conferences: 10 rules of thumb
After 'Twittergate', Ernesto Priego explores the ethics of live-tweeting academic events and provides 10 points to bear in mind when navigating this emerging social media minefield
Entries now open: the Very Short Film competition
Make a 60-second video about a subject you love and you could win £9,000 towards your education
Where does Autotune Nick Clegg rate in the all-time chart of political remixes?
Janette Owen: Clegg's 'I'm sorry' video was not going to stay undoctored for long. Tell us which reworked political videos you rate
Fostering global discourse: it’s time to embrace distance learning
With more rigid immigration policies and the rising cost of overseas study, UK universities must embrace distance learning rather than accept it the way one does a distant relative, says Kit Jones
A good university website: not more, not less, but the sum of its parts
Universities know their websites are a global shop window but many struggle to reflect a coherent brand that showcases the strengths of individual departments, says Neil Barr
Game on: using computer games to captivate your class
Head of department Ollie Bray is using computer games to get his students excited about learning. Here, he talks about technophobia, teaching and trusting kids with tech
Is MOOC more than just a buzzword?
With MIT topping the world university rankings, MOOCs are back in the headlines. This buzzword needs interrogation, says Bonnie Stewart, or risk acting as a Trojan horse for the sector
What’s it like to study at MIT?
The technology institute has just been named best university in the world. Lu-Hai Liang finds out what kind of students go there
The higher education revolution – is there any evidence for it?
As VCs gather for their annual conference, Louis Coiffait considers the main drivers of change and examines whether or not they will lead to revolutionary transformation in UK HE