higher education policy

Durham University’s recent move to permit staff to explore generative AI tools in summative marking has accelerated a debate that universities across the UK are only just beginning to have in public: can algorithmic assistants improve consistency and efficiency in assessment without eroding...

A quietly explosive piece of software went public this week and — within days — forced a debate that has been simmering for years to the front page of higher-education conversations: an AI called Einstein, built by a startup named Companion, claims it can log into a student’s Canvas account...

Delhi University’s Executive Council has approved the creation of a dedicated Centre for Odia Studies in the Faculty of Arts, a move that will introduce a two‑year MA in Odia alongside plans for certificate, diploma and undergraduate elective offerings — and which arrived alongside decisions to...

Harvard’s grading wake-up call — and a syndicated classroom essay by Dr. Jessica A. Johnson — have reopened a national conversation about what grades are for, how post‑COVID pedagogies reshaped classroom expectations, and how colleges can preserve rigor without abandoning the formative gains of...

College classrooms have quietly become laboratories for a new tension: generative AI as a study partner, or generative AI as a substitute for doing the work that college is supposed to teach. A recent opinion in a regional outlet captured that anxiety plainly — students routinely opening a quiz...

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