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How Should AI Rules Differ for a Doctoral Thesis Compared With Coursework?
A coursework policy sets permission per assessment. A thesis has no assessment brief, runs for years, and ends up as a publication — so it is governed by…
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Who Owns a Student’s Thesis on a University Platform?
The student is the author and holds copyright; the institution takes a non-exclusive licence as a condition of the degree; the vendor gets only what the contract says.…
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Which of Your University’s AI Tools Is a High-Risk AI System? (2026)
Annex III point 3 of the AI Act names four education use cases, and the obligations attached to them started applying on 2 August 2026. Six tool categories…
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How Many Postgraduates, and How Many Staff to Supervise Them? (2026)
Two free Eurostat tables give you the supervision denominator every business case needs. They also disagree with each other about which country is under-resourced — and that disagreement…
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Your Supervisors Are Spending Review Time on Formatting, Not Argument
The scarcest resource in your graduate school is the attention of experienced researchers, and a large share of it is being consumed by inconsistent references and broken headings.…
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What an Institutional Licence Should Actually Buy You — and What to Refuse to Pay For
The licence fee is the part of the cost you can see. Seat definitions, true-up clauses, integration effort and the exit position decide the rest — and a…
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Your Deposit Desk Is Holding Degrees for Metadata
The examiners passed it. The deposit desk sent it back because the abstract page field order is wrong and the file is not PDF/A-1. That return does not…
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How to Respond When an Edtech Vendor Loses Your Students’ Work (2026)
Your processor had the incident; you have the notification duty. Ten steps from the vendor’s email to the regulator’s file, with the owner and artefact for each —…
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Academic Integrity Violation Statistics: Why the Number You Have Measures Enforcement, Not Misconduct
There is no sector-wide dataset of integrity cases, and the institution-level series you do have is generated by your own detection effort. What a case count can and…
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Graduate Completion and Attrition Data: Where It Comes From, and Why It Is Not Official Statistics
The definitive US graduate enrolment source is a membership survey, and the best-known doctoral completion evidence came from a time-limited grant project rather than a recurring series. A…