Australia needs clearer rules on when students can use AI Universities embrace AI for student learning while restricting exam use. Schools lack regulatory oversight to enforce integrity.

Australia needs clearer rules on when students can use AI

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How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

A Joycean defence of Harvard (and Australia’s universities?) from Trump’s derangement Part 2 of 2 In the context of President Donald Trump’s all-embracing appetites and hatreds, Harvard being under attack by his administration should, almost reflexively, be easy to defend.

The more the government co-opts the university, the more its faculty becomes indentured employees with corporate orientations. Australian universities too. #auspol #USpol #UniversitiesAU #Harvard

"Is a university now simply an apprenticeship for a future job; a job few seem to be able to describe as technology moves on & AI is just around the corner?
We will always need experts & leaders & not everyone can fill those roles” #auspol #universitiesAU

What is education for these days? Are we experiencing the end of universities? Will the role of academia be simply to service the status quo, not challenge it?

Around the world, including Australia, governments have systematically tampered with the ethos of a university. We no longer know what a university should stand for and that seems to include the universities themselves. #auspol #UniversitiesAU

Trump is surveying Australian academics about gender diversity and China – what does this mean for unis and their research? - Pearls and Irritations Shortly after taking office, US President Donald Trump issued executive orders banning federal funding on so-called “woke” research.

Given such radical changes in the US, Australia needs to seriously reconsider how it is funding and structuring research. #auspol #UniversitiesAU