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Celebrating Martin Luther King - Revisiting a German radio program of January 2017
Yesterday, on Monday 19.01.2021 our American friends celebrated Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. This reminded me of a blog that I wrote four years ago on the ... -
Word of the Day
Rather than comment on the goings on in America yesterday, I will leave it to Susie Dent and her extremely timely Word of the Day tweet. -
Language courses and science, technology, engineering and maths subjects cut
Over the past few years there has been great emphasis placed in the UK on the importance of science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM) for the future development of the ... -
Accountability and algorithmic systems
There seems to be a growing awareness of the use and problems with algorithms - at least in the UK with what Boris Johnson called "a rogue algorithm" caused chaos ... -
AI and Algorithms: the UK examination debacle
This article was originally published on the Taccle AI web site. There’s a lot to think about in the ongoing debacle over exam results in the UK. A quick update ... -
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary. The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the ... -
AI and Young People
Last December, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe organised a seminar on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Young People. The aim of the seminar was to explore ... -
European Union, AI and data strategy
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri is the rapporteur for the industry committe for European Parliament’s own-initiative on data strategy and a standing rapporteur on the World Trade Organization e-commerce negotiations in the European ... -
Is graduate pay a true measure of the quality and relevance of courses?
That education policy in the UK is confused is nothing new, neither given the rapid turnover in education ministers is it surprising. But the latest turn, although rhetorical at the ... -
What policies are needed to respond to the recession?
I attended an excellent webinar on Thursday from the UK Centre for Cities. The webinar, presented by Elena Begini and entitled ‘How will the recession affect different parts of the ...