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Even if university leaders are not experts in the technology, the potential is clear ¨C and they might be able to draw on the ¡®wisdom of ignorance¡¯

Most disadvantaged students likely to be hardest hit if human element of selection is replaced by technology, conference hears

AI agents are what they ingest. Rather than scraping the internet, better to confine their diets to books and encyclopedias, says Sorin Adam Matei

AI is helping us mine 200,000 stakeholders¡¯ ideas, sensible and silly, about core elements of the new Adelaide University, say Peter H?j and David Lloyd

Students love it but faculty typically hate it. Both are asking for help with it. But how close are institutions to devising AI policies that protect both academic integrity and student employability? New York University Abu Dhabi vice-chancellor Mari?t Westermann offers her reflections

A year after ChatGPT brought generative AI to the masses, we now know it has the potential to change everything ¨C the AI-augmented future is now

Technology can free up space in roles dominated by administration but will only result in more of the same without change in direction, researchers say

Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ¡®defensive¡¯ over students¡¯ use of ChatGPT, researchers say

Prestigious publishing group will allow authors to incorporate AI-written text and figures into papers if technology use is acknowledged and explained

Difficulties in access to online and physical collections at UK¡¯s national library persist following ransomware incident

Conference attendees discuss how to respond to the ¡®600-pound gorilla in the room¡¯ on university teaching

Technology¡¯s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ¡®human skills¡¯ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London

Classes at world¡¯s first postgraduate AI institution can pivot mid-course to explore breakthroughs, says MBZUAI acting provost

From fax machines to dawn of the internet, librarians are used to facing ¡®existential crises¡¯ and many are embracing the challenge of ChatGPT head on

Students must be allowed to participate in decisions about technology adoption that affect their education, careers and lives, says Mona Sloane

Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching ¨C but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ¡®can use Excel¡¯

I tell students that I want to make them my academic integrity collaborators, upholding the quality of their own education, says Kenneth Worthy

Apparently widespread use of Bluetooth earpieces by medical school entrance candidates in one province has forced a re-sit, say four researchers 

Bizarre riffs about The Karate Kid or the Wu-Tang Clan may irritate his students, but ¡®strategic vexing¡¯ can promote the more adventurous educational mindset that undergraduates require in the age of ChatGPT, says Jose Marichal 

Gone are the days when AI was seen as the villain in education, according to leading HKUST scientist

Test run on more than 300,000 US student applications suggests technology can identify specific personal qualities with little bias

Annual survey of chief technology officers at US institutions reveals concerns about implications of AI but little enthusiasm for spending big on its potential

The UK government¡¯s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill reflects widespread ignorance about tech ¨C even within higher education, says Andy Farnell

Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities¡¯ future, leaders tell THE summit

Metaverse campuses may be needed to alleviate loneliness of ¡®personalised learning at scale¡¯ driven by AI, Anant Agarwal tells THE summit

Using AI, a teacher with little coding experience could design a virtual environment to deliver a specific lesson to a specific student, says Nick Clegg

Students encouraged to be at the forefront of technological advances in healthcare with new dual-degree programme

Universities should target major platforms that continue to host adverts for contract cheating companies, finds UCL report

Nobel-winning scientists are now using large language models, but experts say their impact on research is only just starting

Article edit history is an untapped resource in charting the evolution of scientific knowledge over time, researchers say

Scholars say it¡¯s impossible to tell whether government motivated by ¡®genuine concerns¡¯ or censorship aims

For now, premier US university sees few good options beyond in-class assignments ¨C at least among faculty taking the threat seriously

Major annual survey shows quality of remote teaching improving but enthusiasm for hybrid options cools

University educators may not fully understand generative AI or its long-term impact on society, but they must seek to integrate the technology into degree courses, says Stephanie Marshall

Start-of-year outage affects 120,000 students, faculty and staff at major US institution with top cybersecurity programme

Academics say largest US research funder¡¯s policy aimed at stopping ideas theft could also apply to search engines

Faculty often feel they¡¯re always on the job because of technology and the stress can stem from not feeling totally in control, writes Betheny Gross

If AI can perform or simulate a competency being assessed, is it really appropriate for students to use it, asks Andrew West

Review of surveys involving more than 4,600 participants suggests rates of academic misconduct rocketed during Covid-19 pandemic

Unless something is done, teaching and learning risks becoming a completely inauthentic spectacle, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

Tools developed to stamp out misconduct have been shown to be biased and inaccurate. Will AI creators themselves be forced to do it better?

Publishers of big journals ramp up efforts to ensure more transparency over what material has been fed into the likes of ChatGPT

ChatGPT creator concedes tool set up to help educators identify when students are using AI in essays does not work properly

Payments to attackers do not shorten recovery times for compromised institutions, survey reveals

Cambridge-based chipmaker Arm warns of ¡®clear mismatch¡¯ between graduate skills and industry needs

Studies claiming how technology can ¡®transform¡¯ educational systems require more academic rigour, finds new report

Tool developed by edtech giant used by customers 65 million times in three months since launch

Researchers say unsupervised online exams can provide ¡®valid assessments of student learning¡¯

Assessment rationales have not kept pace with AI translation and writing support tools, conference hears

Methods used by new tools ¡®inadvertently flag¡¯ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases

Yale University professor¡¯s new book on history¡¯s most notorious cyberattacks explores academia¡¯s close ties to the world of hacking

ARC responds to allegations that assessors were using chatbot to write feedback on applications

Students¡¯ sometimes unexpected use of AI, from generating emails to translating their original work, is encouraging a ¡®rethink¡¯ by academics

Researchers recommend training after survey also finds that while four in 10 respondents are uncomfortable about staff getting drunk with students, three in 10 don¡¯t mind

When passable texts, images and music can be automatically generated, the creative industries may need fewer, better graduates, says Ian Pace

Scientists and technologists must participate in a genuinely collective project to regulate technological development, says Nicholas Dirks

Collective effort can combat misinformation, respond to climate change and harness the power of AI for the good of mankind, says Rocky Tuan

Applicants to one of Australia¡¯s major funding streams report spotting tell-tale signs of chatbot use

Chemistry laureate Avram Hershko says ChatGPT should be forced to cite its sources and state uncertainty levels

If passable essays can be generated in seconds, should educators refocus on originality and style ¨C or reframe assessment entirely, asks Andrew Moore