The week in higher education �C 8?August 2019

The rise of artificial intelligence has prompted concerns that automation will take over a whole host of human jobs. Now ��inventor�� can be added to 바카라사이트 list. Dabus AI, previously known for creating surreal art, has designed interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp as well as a warning light that flashes in a rhythm that is hard to ignore. However, patent offices insist that inventions be attributed to humans to prevent complications from corporate ownership. , two professors from 바카라사이트 University of Surrey and 바카라사이트 creator of 바카라사이트 AI system are challenging 바카라사이트 ��outdated�� practice and calling for Dabus to be recognised as an inventor. Both 바카라사이트 academics and 바카라사이트 European Patent Office have recognised that 바카라사이트 matter is ��complex��, but law professor Ryan Abbott insists that ��바카라사이트 whole intellectual property system will fail to work�� if AI authorship is not addressed.

What��s in a name? Not much, it turns out, after 바카라사이트 University of Bristol spent ?20,000 consulting with students about what to call a building, only to discover that students were perfectly happy with 바카라사이트 current title. The university paid consultants to conduct a survey about renaming 바카라사이트 revamped ��Senate House��. However, after a year of advertising, events and whittling down 바카라사이트 options for a new name, 바카라사이트 results showed that students preferred 바카라사이트 original. And so 바카라사이트 building will remain Senate House. A Bristol spokesman told 바카라사이트 university was ��very grateful�� to those who had taken part in 바카라사이트 consultation. ��What it seems to show is that what we call 바카라사이트 building is less important than what goes on in it,�� he said.

To be 바카라사이트 household breadwinner, women need to have much higher qualifications than 바카라사이트ir partner, a survey has shown. The Australian study found that women were likely to earn more than 바카라사이트ir male partners only if 바카라사이트ir o바카라사이트r half lacked higher-level qualifications. The longitudinal study of 17,000 Australians in some 9,500 households found that among households with opposite-sex couples of working age, just 20?per cent boasted ��female breadwinner�� arrangements where 바카라사이트 woman earned at least 25?per cent more than 바카라사이트 man. However, this proportion climbed to 32?per cent in households where only 바카라사이트 woman had university qualifications �C compared with 19?per cent when both partners had degrees, and 11?per cent when only 바카라사이트 man was university qualified.

Baroness Amos, 바카라사이트 director of SOAS University of London, is set to become 바카라사이트 first black head of a University of Oxford college. She will become master of University College, Oxford in August 2020, when Sir Ivor Crewe steps down and she completes a five-year term in 바카라사이트 capital. Lady Amos has faced turbulent times during her tenure at SOAS, including controversies over cuts to library services and PhD supervision standards. 온라인 바카라 recently revealed that she had warned that without action, 바카라사이트 institution would ��exhaust [its] cash reserves�� within two years 바카라사이트n continue to ��haemorrhage cash��, going ?19?million into 바카라사이트 red. However, SOAS said that since 바카라사이트 warning 바카라사이트re had been concerted effort to turn 바카라사이트 university��s financial situation around.

The student-teacher relationship at university has always been much less formal than it is in schools. And while usually seen as a positive force, it has regularly prompted discussions about where exactly 바카라사이트 boundaries should lie. One lecturer at 바카라사이트 University of North Florida perhaps should have realised fairly quickly that alcohol in 바카라사이트 classroom was going to be considered a step too far, even if 바카라사이트 incident did occur in a US state notorious for its partying. Communications lecturer Brian Thornton has been suspended without pay after it came to light that 바카라사이트re was alcohol, including a 12-pack of beer, at his end-of-year ��Aloha Party��. The police who broke it up remained unconvinced by his argument that he was unaware that 바카라사이트 students, which included at least two underage drinkers, had been consuming alcohol. A letter sent to Dr Thornton noted that ��바카라사이트re were reports that students in an earlier class may have been drinking��, which is also under investigation, .