https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=818189 2025-07-02T06:33:18Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=818189 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > education > Higher Ed. There are valid concerns about the abuse and overuse of large language models (LLMs) in education. But if you want to understand why so many students are turning to AI, you need to understand what brought us to this point – and the educat... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663806 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/students-ai-critics-chatgpt-covid-education-system 2025-07-02T06:33:18Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657674 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/21/author-discusses-new-book-uberfication-university 2016-12-06T14:35:42Z In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher. Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ... Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470906 http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/26/345515451/student-course-evaluations-get-an-f 2015-04-23T09:44:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1373854 http://uk-universities.timeshighereducation.co.uk/#main 2014-06-14T12:34:04Z But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground. However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346014 http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/mental-health-academics-growing-problem-pressure-university 2014-03-08T14:05:07Z Why do academics work so much? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345493 http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/03/03/essay-why-faculty-members-work-so-much#ixzz2v2dzVgUk 2014-03-06T07:34:03Z I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345490 http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/mar/01/mental-health-issue-phd-research-university 2014-03-06T07:30:43Z Paul Buckland refused to pass students who didn't unders... archaeology - and he's just one of many academics under ... the marks of undeserving students. So will Buckland's le... the destruction of standards in some universities, asks ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1264432 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7332452/The-university-professor-who-stood-up-against-dumbing-down-of-degrees.html 2013-12-20T19:23:55Z The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023610 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking 2013-03-11T08:56:05Z Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1007459 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2013/feb/12/dont-scare-students-off-philosophy 2013-02-12T08:47:55Z Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin... My future c https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006444 http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/08/early-career-researchers-phd-academia 2013-02-10T06:37:43Z Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006217 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/08/academic-press-sues-librarian-raising-issues-academic-freedom#ixzz2KK7Plv15 2013-02-09T14:02:46Z A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s... In any case https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006212 http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/01/21/the-decision-to-leave-academia-a-dialogue-with-chris-humphreys-of-jobs-on-toast/ 2013-02-09T13:56:19Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1004744 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21357311 2013-02-07T09:18:14Z Today's provosts are a skeptical lot. That may come with... they must constantly prioritize some ideas (and some peo... others -- tasks that are never easy and have been made m... the economic downturn. But the 2013 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=994035 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/skepticism-about-tenure-moocs-and-presidency-survey-provosts 2013-01-23T08:56:24Z Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th... And analysis by England's higher education funding body ... This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ... The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ... Analysis by https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=823488 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19014531 2012-08-02T22:23:55Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=822257 http://chronicle.com/article/Were-Muddying-the-Message-on/133211/ 2012-07-31T08:19:29Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820220 http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/digital-life/digital-life-news/university-memes-20120717-2277p.html?selectedImage=4 2012-07-26T18:06:46Z As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned... University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am wor... their Cambridge (MA) offices. Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean ha ... Honestly, the reasons are myriad and compl https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819265 http://cs.unm.edu/~terran/academic_blog/?p=113&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=8c80f 2012-07-25T10:15:41Z Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary Unive... (QMUL). It’s possible that universities may have to co... hard times, so what’s wrong? What’s wrong is that the victims are being selected in ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=818188 http://www.dcscience.net/?p=5388#follow 2012-07-23T11:45:06Z