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Great outline of the spending review here and what to look out for if we are to discern an overarching strategy 👇🏼

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It’s important that we name that sociologists (including Jess) have been raising the alarm about these trends toward misogyny in young men and boys for a decade. This isn’t something that sprung up out of nowhere. It has been brewing for their whole adult lives.

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Depressing but true. Demographic crunch and assessment crisis could both land in the run up to a general election where at least two parties (Reform and Con) are openly hostile to at least parts of the HE sector. Not ideal…

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If we think the crisis in UK HE is bad now, just think in three years time when the era of benign demographics ends, just as the credibility of our degrees is going to be in toilet. Universities failing to confront AI and its implications for assessment right now spells disaster down the line.

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What the future of university assessment has to look like.

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Marking AI generated essays leads me down some weird rabbit holes. After reading some questionable interpretations I went to the ‘source’ expecting that to also be AI-generated. However … (see next post)

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If you are working class and in the lower sets for English you have no access to books, novels, poetry, or plays but rather a daily grind of basic literacy worksheets”, as one teacher reports in our latest blog post Diane Reay #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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Yep. Had this battle with Dan Hodges on Twitter for five years. He was right, I was wrong.

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No 1 issue and No 2 issue largely in tension with each other. Governing, eh?

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This gives credence to Labour’s ‘Macron vs Le Pen’ strategy.

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on.ft.com/4dxFWzn Europe’s far right is hammering at the door of power

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Whatever the economic news is, Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride each put out the same statement time and time again. "I’m determined that we go further and faster to put more money in people’s pockets.” “Families are paying the price for the Labour chancellor’s choices,” www.ft.com/content/3aac...

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And they are going to focus on that 6% so hard the other 94% goes elsewhere … and they won’t move the dial on the 6 either.

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The Tories governed for the most part by looking after their electoral coalition: Old people, homeowners, rural voters & later voters in towns. It’s when they blew up the homeowner part they ended up in big trouble. Lab thinks punching its electoral coalition in the face is how to win an election.

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Great stuff from @stephenkb.bsky.social. If Labour’s recent social media outputs are anything to by, then it seems the party is going to be stuck in the TV age for some time. It’s strange as their election social media was quite slick. on.ft.com/45jOFDc

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I’m jaded enough to expect the both sides approach from our national broadcaster underpinned by a tabloid-led narrative. Was embarrassing listening to Chris Mason’s question earlier compared to the European media’s questions on details.’

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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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Starting to view typos as a mark of quality in a student’s work as it means that particular sentence was less likely to have been produced by AI.

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Some great points here. My instinct is, given the deft political nous of Farage, he won’t spend the next few years ‘banging on about Brexit’.

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Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

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This has stayed with me and shaped my perspective on AI in the university. It needs to be actively discouraged so we can develop cognitive abilities. Its later use as a tool in the workplace will produce far greater outputs because graduates will have better abilities having done the heavy lifting.

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Morgan McSweeney must have no understanding of the online ecosystem currently driving Reform support. Speak to supporters, and read their online posts, they despise Starmer. They (wrongly) accuse him of letting criminals out of prison to imprison protestors (rioters) in Aug. They’ll never vote Lab.

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Extremely this ⬇️

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Not yet a year into Lab’s huge majority & it’s feeling like it’s blown it. The best hope for centre-left voters is new leadership from outside the PLP. As a former ambitious mayor who became PM once said "If the ball came loose from the back of the scrum” I’m sure Andy Burnham would be up for it.

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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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