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Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment ‘carries risk of data breach’

17 December 2024 at 15:47 PM, via The Guardian

Ministry of Defence says risk is low and ‘robust safeguards’ have been put in place by suppliers

An artificial intelligence tool hosted by Amazon and designed to boost UK Ministry of Defence recruitment puts defence personnel at risk of being identified publicly, according to a government assessment.

Data used in the automated system to improve the drafting of defence job adverts and attract...

Home schooling laws to be tightened up after murder of Sara Sharif

17 December 2024 at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Ten-year-old was murdered by her father and stepmother after being taken out of school to be educated at home

Measures to tighten up home schooling in England in the wake of 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s murder at the hands of her father and stepmother are to be unveiled in a bill before parliament on Tuesday.

The children’s wellbeing and schools bill will enable the government to introduce...

A volcanic explosion every 15 minutes: how Australia’s museums are turning to tech to lure us in

16 December 2024 at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Museums are using VR and immersive experiences to boost attendances – and while it can provide an amazing spectacle, critics say it can be an expensive distraction

It starts with a low rumble, then an explosion and a deafening roar. A pyroclastic flow bursts from the volcano and hurtles towards us at a frightening speed. Showers of ash appear to pummel the space around us – well technically,...

The Guardian view on reforming special needs education: a demanding test for ministers | Editorial

15 December 2024 at 20:25 PM, via The Guardian

The system has been stretched to breaking point. The government needs to come up with a plan

The urgent need for reform of the special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system in England is arguably the greatest challenge facing the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson. A crisis that built up over the past decade, and whose full impact was eased but also disguised by Conservative...

What kind of society would willingly traumatise its children in the name of education? | John Harris

15 December 2024 at 17:55 PM, via The Guardian

As claims about practices in two flagship London schools are investigated, it’s time to stop and think about what schools are really for

Ask the average Westminster politician about schools policy and the response will focus on issues that never seem to go away: funding, teacher shortages, and the drive to somehow uncouple unequal educational outcomes from children’s social and economic...

Top English academy trust faces safeguarding review over ‘emotional abuse’ of pupils

15 December 2024 at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Observer investigation into London school has sparked an inquiry into allegations that teachers harmed mental wellbeing of children

A school in one of England’s leading academy trusts is to face an independent safeguarding review after an Observer investigation exposed allegations of emotional abuse of children over two decades.

After an emergency multi-agency meeting on Tuesday, Jim Gamble,...

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

15 December 2024 at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system

The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student, scanned the content, stunned. He had been...

Primary school children left in tears after vicar tells them ‘Santa isn’t real’

14 December 2024 at 22:34 PM, via The Guardian

Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents said he ‘ruined Christmas’

Breaking the illusion that Santa is not real is a parental ritual usually handled with painstaking care.

For students at a primary school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to shreds after a vicar told pupils the bearded gift-bearer was made up.

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