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AI detection tools risk losing the generative AI arms race

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KAUST Hosts Annual International Conference on Smart Mobility

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is hosting the International Conference on Smart Mobility - IEEE (SM'23) from March 19 to 21 on the university campus. The conference is attended by a distinguished group of academics, technologists, equipment manufacturers, transportation service providers, and city planners to discuss…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pheu Thai ups stakes in race

The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the…

Bangkok Post

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AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

The Guardian - UK

Thai voter attitudes surveyed

While Thai people's faith in democracy has declined over the past 20 years, they believe it will one day turn around and improve, according to academics at the King Prajadhipok's Institute (KPI).

Bangkok Post

Taxpayer-funded vouchers in Florida go mostly to religious schools. ‘Pay for it yourself,’ rabbi says

ORLANDO, Fla. — Most Florida students using state vouchers to pay for private school spend their scholarships at religious schools, as their parents select campuses where lessons from the Bible, the Torah and the Quran are taught alongside traditional academics.

Orlando Sentinel

UK falls down global ranks for life expectancy – analysis

Academics examined life expectancies around the world from 1952 to 2021.

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1,100 scientists and students barred from UK amid China crackdown

Exclusive: Foreign Office rejected record number of academics in 2022 on national security grounds

The Guardian - UK

Why a new centre for civic engagement in Ukraine could help counter Russia’s invasion

Shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I set aside my academic work as a fellow in public philosophy to report on civilian life in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities and to examine the state of higher education in Ukraine.

The Conversation

Hundreds of Curtin University staff walk off the job in fight over pay and conditions

Hundreds of academics at WA's biggest university walk off the job as part of a long-running industrial dispute centred on casualisation, increasing workloads, cost of living and advancement for First Nations staff.

ABC News

Clue to humans' desire to get high may lie in apes deliberately making themselves dizzy

The research, conducted by academics at the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham, indicates findings could provide hints about human attempts to manipulate their mood and perception of reality

Wales Online

‘Universally hated’: academics speak out on outsourced university courses

Australian academic staff say online courses run by for-profit providers lead to distressing workloads and poor standards

The Guardian - AU

ChatGPT is the push higher education needs to rethink assessment

The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much bigger challenge. Assessment can take many forms, from essays to exams to experiments and more.

The Conversation

Women in politics: To run or not to run?

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that includes live interviews with Canada’s top social sciences and humanities academics. Click here to register for In Conversation With Semra Sevi, March 15 at 1 p.m. ET. This is a virtual event co-hosted by The Conversation Canada and the Social…

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The billionaire cofounder of Home Depot compares the Fed to ‘the gang that can’t shoot straight’ and says the coming crash is ‘not going to be pretty’

“My problem with the Fed, overall, is there’s too many academics in the mix,” Ken Langone said Wednesday.

Daily Record

Hangover jab that could 'reverse drunkenness' tested by scientists in new study

Academics hope the finding will lead to effective treatments for alcohol poisoning, which can have serious health effects on the body.

Bangkok Post

Dissolution hinges on boundary rejig

Academics believe Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is waiting for the Election Commission (EC) to complete the redrawing of constituency boundaries before dissolving the House of Representatives sometime this month.

The Guardian - AU

‘No actual teaching’: alarm bells over online courses outsourced by Australian universities

Exclusive: degrees marketed as being from major universities are increasingly run by third-party companies with pre-recorded lectures and no tutorials

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Students at top London university urged to ‘snitch’ on striking lecturers

Queen Mary University accused of ‘turning students into spies’ to gather data on academics who did not reschedule missed teaching

The Independent UK

Whale safety research planned near East Coast wind farms

As dead whales continue to wash ashore on the U.S. East Coast, officials and academics in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere are planning a wide array of monitoring and research aimed at preventing harm to the animals during construction and operation of offshore wind farms

The Independent UK

Protect heart health to ward off other major diseases, study says

Academics found that adults with healthy hearts had longer disease-free life expectancies.

Bangkok Post

Westerners asked to donate rare blood

Rh-Negative blood reserves in Thailand are extremely low, academics say, and the international community in Thailand is encouraged to donate blood.

Bangkok Post

Academics ask Westerners to donate rare blood

Rh-Negative blood reserves in Thailand are extremely low, academics told a panel discussion on Wednesday evening, during which they encouraged the international community in Thailand to donate blood.

The Guardian - UK

Jason Arday to become youngest ever black professor at Cambridge

Arday, 37, a sociologist, aims to inspire others from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds

The Independent UK

Universities may face sanctions if staff-student relationships are not disclosed

Academics who refuse to report personal relationships with their students should be dismissed, the universities watchdog has proposed.

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