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‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May Dip

01 May at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapers

When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent...

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

30 April at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

30 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives

We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly,...

Office for Students’ University of Sussex humiliation is a symptom of deeper failings

29 April at 20:01 PM, via The Guardian

England’s higher education regulator must rebuild trust with troubled sector after series of blunders under previous leadership

In its brief and unhappy life, England’s Office for Students has been offered a series of challenges it has largely failed to meet. This week the latest and most embarrassing of those was unveiled, when the high court decisively rejected the higher education...

Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

29 April at 17:46 PM, via The Guardian

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discretely in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

When the wealthy Paduan banker Enrico Scrovegni commissioned the building of his eponymous chapel in the 14th century, he made sure that he was immortalised in the lavish frescoes adorning its interior. Florentine artist Giotto...

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

29 April at 12:50 PM, via The Guardian

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued fine for handling of protests over professor’s trans rights views

Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.

The ruling is a damaging blow to the credibility and...

Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds

29 April at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education

Teaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does not affect the progress of less able children, according to a study that upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education.

The research by University College London’s Institute of Education...

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