On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about “horrendous stress” and feeling constantly watched after bosses started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching. Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to thousands of UK public and private sector workers now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert human managers when they are suspected of doing things wrong. Continue reading...

Amazon is supporting First Lady Melania Trump's Fostering the Future Together coalition to give young people access to AI-powered learning tools and education programs.

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.

Purpose: Assessing grant applications is time-consuming and difficult, adding to the overall burden of academic peer review. Whilst funders are exploring whether AI can help, there is no published res...

The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.

Students are "scared" about proposals which could see their work used to train AI, their union says.

We are seeking to appoint a talented researcher to the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (LCAL). LCAL is a major new interdisciplinar...

The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching an unaccredited academy that promises to show young people how to excel in the AI era for the price of Ivy League tuition. But one critic says...

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An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

The trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

Scepticism over artificial intelligence in taxpayer-funded research “demonstrates fragility” of support within UK

A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI

Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.

Forty-eight programmes in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) are among the casualties.

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers

Last year, a slim majority thought schools that integrated AI would be better for students. Now a majority say schools that ban AI are better, according to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

Students could return only to find their lectures and seminars cancelled over what union boss Jo Grady called “academic vandalism”

Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

Universities need protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment.

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

Big structures and large processes are back, baby

Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless.