ChatGPT: tool or terminator?
OpenAI’s chatbot has wowed the world by producing astonishingly well-formed written responses to questions. Is it about to turn academia upside down?
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19 January 2023 digital edition
Boxing clever:Â Dame Mary Beard on public debate, prejudice and life after Cambridge
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Florida college presidents restrict critical race theory teaching
Prodded by DeSantis, heads of all 28 campuses promise to hinder attempts to explain racial inequities to students
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Fewer first-class degrees awarded in UK as grades finally fall
One in three degrees were firsts last year, but this is still above pre-pandemic levels
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Interview with Calum Semple
The expert in outbreak medicine discusses overcoming early academic challenges, the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how a chance meeting over bagpipes changed his life
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Treasury ‘sceptical’ of claims about economic value of research
Former political advisers say frequently used figures to advocate for research funding do not sway government thinking
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US universities caught up in crackdown on TikTok
Politicians fight Chinese social media platform over security concerns seen as flawed and even risky, but with possible upside for student mental health
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‘Remove grant application barriers’ to fix research inequalities
Funders should review how interviews, eligibility criteria and internal selection policies work against marginalised groups, says study co-funded by Wellcome and Oxford
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The week in higher education – 19 January 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Israel-Gaza violence ‘fuelled rise in UK campus antisemitism’
Increase in tensions in Middle East led to highest ever number of incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust
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Wales to increase student maintenance support by 9.4 per cent
Rise runs at more than three times the rate of uplift in England
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Mary Beard: ‘I don’t think you’re right, and this is the evidence’
When her broadcasting career took off in her mid-fifties, Mary Beard became one of Britain’s best-known and most-discussed academics. Jack Grove speaks to the retiring Cambridge classicist about her...
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AI will replace academics unless our teaching challenges students again
Delivery of educational material chunked at the optimal grade for retention by passive student-consumers is ripe for automation, says Andy Farnell
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What would a President DeSantis mean for US higher education?
Florida’s Trumpian governor has repeatedly attacked the freedom and expertise of the state’s university sector. With the Yale and Harvard graduate widely tipped as the 2024 Republican presidential...
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Crisis-hit UEA plans redundancies as £23 million deficit looms
Highly regarded institution cuts back due to falling student numbers, high dropout rates and rising energy costs