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Is Student Work Used to Train AI Models? What to Establish Before You Sign
Retention in a matching corpus and use as training data are two different permissions, and most institutional contracts grant only the first while readers assume they have refused…
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The Writing Centre Waiting List You Cannot Staff Your Way Out Of
Writing centre demand is seasonal, concentrated and structurally impossible to staff at peak. The fix is not more appointments — it is moving the work that does not…
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Your Students Are Already Using AI You Cannot See
95% of students use AI. 38% say their institution provides it. The gap is not a policy problem you can close with a rule — it is a…
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How Current Is Your Higher Education Data? Publication Lag by Source Type (2026)
The official enrolment figure released in November 2025 describes the 2023/24 academic year. If your strategy paper treats it as current, it is two years behind the students…
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Student AI Use in 2026: What the Numbers Actually Measure
94% of students use generative AI for assessed work. 12% directly include AI-generated text. Those two figures come from the same survey, and confusing them has driven a…
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Procurement Questions to Ask an AI Writing Vendor: A Question Bank for Universities (2026)
Forty-one questions to send in writing before any demonstration, grouped by the committee that will ask them — and the four whose answers most often end an evaluation.
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Academic Integrity Platforms in 2026: What Changed, and What Your Renewal Checklist Should Say
One product in the standard comparison set was withdrawn on 30 June 2026, and one major vendor sells both an AI detector and an AI humanizer. What an…
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How to Run a Data Protection Review Before Deploying an AI Writing Tool (2026)
A step-by-step data protection review for an AI writing deployment, covering the UK DPIA route, the FERPA rights-holder rule US institutions get wrong, and the AI literacy duty…
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Is AI Detection Reliable Enough to Base a Misconduct Case On? (2026)
A detector score is a probability, not evidence of intent. What a 1% false-positive rate means at institutional volume, and what a defensible integrity process looks like without…
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What Should a University AI Policy Include? A Component Checklist for 2026
Most institutional AI policies fail on the same three components: they set one rule for every assessment, they leave disclosure undefined, and they say nothing about burden of…