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Happiness Recession
According to the Guardian: More 15-year-olds are reporting low life satisfaction in the UK than anywhere else in Europe, amid what experts are describing as a “happiness recession” for British ... -
LLMs are a cultural technology
John Naughton writing in the Guardian says: Assessment in humanities in time of LLMs requires, "if not a change of heart, two changes of mindset. The first is an acceptance ... -
Academic freedom?
Timesa sHigher Education reports on a study by Chavan Kissoon and Terence Karran, both from the University of Lincoln, who surveyed more than 2,000 scholars for the UK University and College ... -
AI research is expensive
According to the The Washington Post, AI research is eye-wateringly expensive, and Big Tech, with its huge salaries and computing resources, is draining academia of top talent. This has serious ... -
Shocking AI quality
A paper by Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab and reported by The Byte found that a "shocking amount of the web" is already made up of poor-quality AI-generated and ... -
Digital Divide
From the Guardian Newspaper. The Commons education select committee was told on Tuesday that the shift to online learning during Covid has not solved the problem of digital poverty for ... -
Digital experiences
From WonkHE International students’ digital experiences in UK higher education are shaped by their home countries’ digital infrastructure and learning cultures, according to the latest report from Jisc’s study of the topic. ... -
Gender and AI
The OECD report that in the United Kingdom there are bigger gender differences in attitudes to AI use at the workplace than in other countries. In the finance and insurance ... -
EU votes (narrowly) to support nature
The EU has narrowly passed a key law to protect nature – a core pillar of the Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s European Green Deal – after months of ... -
Skills Shortages
According to this year’s Business Barometer report published by The Open University (OU) and the British Chambers of Commerce, 73% of UK organisations are currently experiencing skills shortages, which remains one ...
