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Staff and students say failure to challenge wholesale use of genAI threatens to make degrees all but worthless

I appreciate the replies from Orin, Will, and Sam. We have very different conceptions on what role a scholar should play and what role a judge should play. My writings in this area are both retrospective and prospective. I look backwards to see what qualifications a judge had at the…

Academics have said it is a question of ‘when not if’ another pandemic will hit

Academics analysed data from more than one million people in Denmark in a new study

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

Letters: A group of academics express their concerns that Prof Deirdre Osborne, the co-founder of the MA Black British literature course at Goldsmiths, is facing the threat of redundancy

Letters: Readers respond to Mary Beard’s defence of Cambridge University’s mandatory retirement age

In recent years, several incidents have occurred at major football events where authorities have been heavily criticised by the general public, the media, academics and supporters for breaching the rights of football fans.

Women should be tested for gestational diabetes before 14 weeks, say academics