Articles
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You Already Licensed a General-Purpose AI Assistant. Do You Still Need an Academic Writing Platform?
Comparison table first. The decisive criterion is what the assistant is grounded on — a general-purpose assistant grounds on your own tenant plus web search, which is the…
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How Many Doctoral Theses Are Produced Each Year? A Free Queryable Count, and What It Covers
The OpenAIRE Graph indexes 3,142,531 doctoral theses and answers a country-level query in one unauthenticated HTTP call. Here are the current figures for five countries, the coverage ratio…
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Can Our Staff Put Student Work Into an AI Tool?
Not into a personal account. A marker who pastes a chapter into their own chatbot has disclosed a student’s personal data to a company the institution has no…
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iThenticate vs Turnitin Similarity for Thesis Screening: Which Corpus Are You Actually Buying?
On the vendor’s own pages one product matches against student submissions and the other against subscription scholarly content. A thesis is both kinds of document — so a…
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Best AI Writing Platforms for Universities in 2026: Ranked on What They Do With Your Text
Writing support is a different purchase from detection, and it should be scored on different criteria. Comparison table first, ranked on text handling and whether the vendor markets…
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Can a University Rely on Student Consent to Deploy an AI Writing Tool?
Almost never, and the reason is in Recital 43. The EDPB states that a public authority is unlikely to be able to rely on consent at all —…
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How to Roll Out an AI Writing Platform Across a University After the Pilot (2026)
A pilot that succeeded does not become a rollout by being approved. Ten steps with the owner and artefact for each — including the EU procurement threshold that…
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How to Build an AI Literacy Curriculum — and Why the EU AI Act Makes It an Obligation
Article 4 of the EU AI Act places an AI literacy duty on deployers — and a university running AI systems is a deployer. Nine steps from mandate…
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How to Set Up SSO and LMS Integration for a University Platform (2026)
Eight steps with named owners and artefacts — and the point most rollouts miss: choosing which LTI Advantage services to enable is a data-minimisation decision, not a technical…
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What Is the Difference Between Plagiarism Detection and AI Detection?
One produces a reviewable artefact — the matched source, which a panel can open. The other produces a probability with nothing behind it to examine. That difference determines…