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Education

‘AI is scary territory’: art teachers – one 64, one 29 – on cuts, creativity and life in a career that’s under threat

20 November at 13:34 PM, via The Guardian

There are 27% fewer art teachers in England today than there were in 2011, and the proportion of students taking arts subjects has plummeted. Here’s what it’s like to work in a job that is essential and often perilously undervalued

When 64-year-old Sue Cabourn began her career in the late 90s, the next generation of artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Gillian Wearing were dominating...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

20 November at 13:18 PM, via The Guardian

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.

James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at...

Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’

19 November at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safe

Three teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon. They drank coffee and talked about their jobs. The start of the school day was still an hour or two away.

Suddenly, mid-conversation, they...

Harvard to investigate Larry Summers’s Epstein ties as he exits OpenAI board

19 November at 16:07 PM, via The Guardian

Newly released Epstein documents drag the ex-treasury secretary into deeper scrutiny as Harvard widens its review

Harvard is set to launch a new investigation into former university president and Bill Clinton economic adviser Larry Summers about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it also emerged Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI.

The moves comes after Summers said he would...

University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees

18 November at 19:50 PM, via The Guardian

Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.

The University of Nottingham’s council will next week decide the...

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