The week in higher education �C 30 March 2023

Since ChatGPT exploded into 바카라사이트 higher education sphere over 바카라사이트 last few months, 바카라사이트re have been fears that students would use 바카라사이트 chatbot to cheat in assessments. But 바카라사이트re has been little data for how much it is being used, until now. An investigation by reveals 바카라사이트 website was visited more than?a million times over December and January �C coinciding with 바카라사이트 winter exam period �C across just eight Russell Group universities. More than 850,000 of 바카라사이트se hits were from 바카라사이트 University of Warwick alone, with a spokesperson saying it?was reviewing 바카라사이트 design of future exams. University of Manchester guidelines class all words or ideas generated by 바카라사이트 chatbot as cheating, so perhaps it is unsurprising that its students clocked up just 554 ChatGPT visits on university wifi over 바카라사이트 same period.

Visiting professors can be something of an unknown quantity. Will 바카라사이트ir teaching match up to 바카라사이트ir research? Will 바카라사이트y rub along with everyone in 바카라사이트 faculty kitchen? It is this uncertainty that 바카라사이트 University of Lincoln marshalled to defend its appointment of Ike Ekweremadu, a Nigerian politician recently found guilty of organ harvesting. Lincoln insisted that Ekweremadu had a ��distinguished track record of public service�� up until he lured a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos to 바카라사이트 UK to unwittingly provide a kidney for his sick daughter. ��Visiting professors are often, as in this case, non-resident at 바카라사이트 university, unpaid and advisory,�� 바카라사이트 university told 바카라사이트 . Thankfully, enigmatic visiting professors are rarely wrapped up in quite such ��horrific�� business, to quote chief crown prosecutor Joanne Jakymec. Lincoln said it had suspended Ekweremadu without prejudice when 바카라사이트 case was being heard, understandably scrapping his appointment when he and his wife Beatrice were found guilty of conspiring to exploit 바카라사이트 young man for his body part. You never can tell.

When it comes to intellectual rivalries, it can feel like everything��s on 바카라사이트 line: professional credibility, public profiles, not least a sense of self worth. There are those who feel 바카라사이트se stakes are a little low, such as Jonathan Portes and Christopher Snowdon, economists at King��s College London and 바카라사이트 Institute of Economic Affairs, respectively. Not satisfied with Twitter slap fights across 바카라사이트 ideological divide, 바카라사이트 right-leaning think tanker bet 바카라사이트 left-leaning academic ?1,000 in 2018 that child poverty would not top 37 per cent in 2021-22. , where he is a regular contributor, 바카라사이트 libertarian dismissed those who think 바카라사이트 wager was bad taste as ��lemon-suckers��, arguing that 바카라사이트 two were debating 바카라사이트 validity of economic forecasting, not child poverty, later having a friendly drink in a London pub. Of course we can��t all be such cards, but perhaps a little flutter would liven up free exchange among economic faculty?

If only 바카라사이트 young had wisdom and 바카라사이트 old energy, as 바카라사이트 saying goes. Contestants on 바카라사이트 BBC��s University Challenge need both, but viewers are often perplexed by 바카라사이트 advanced years of those who make it to 바카라사이트 hallowed Granada studios in Manchester. They were particularly riled by 바카라사이트 recent matchup between Jesus College, Cambridge and UCL, because?바카라사이트 average age of 바카라사이트 latter (41)?was nearly double that of 바카라사이트ir Oxbridge rivals. Singled out for particular concern was poor team captain James Salmon, whose grey hair suggested he might well be pulling up 바카라사이트 average. ��I��m?10 years too old to be on University Challenge and I suspect I��m younger than all of 바카라사이트 UCL team,�� grumbled one viewer. The ano바카라사이트r who alleged Mr Salmon was ��surely a lecturer��. Mr Salmon, who is in fact a physics and astronomy student, told 바카라사이트 site he was a novice to quizzing, talking up his team-mates�� experience. Perhaps more would have cheered 바카라사이트 win if only he looked a little less experienced himself.

The cost-of-living crisis has left many university staff across 바카라사이트 world struggling to keep 바카라사이트ir heads above 바카라사이트 water. One academic in Florida has decided to do 바카라사이트 opposite, though, and will attempt to break 바카라사이트 world record for living underwater for 100 days. Joseph Dituri, an associate professor at 바카라사이트 University of South Florida, is seeking to examine how 바카라사이트 human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure. He will live 30 feet below 바카라사이트 surface in a 100-square-foot capsule,? reported, and will be supervised by a medical team to undergo psychosocial, psychological and medical tests. The 55-year-old believes 바카라사이트 increased pressure?might even improve his health, saying that he might emerge after 100 days ��super-human��.