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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 cost staff hours — it moves a conferral date, and conferral dates carry visas, job offers and funding end dates.
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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 — and the 72-hour clock that starts when you become aware, not when you finish investigating.
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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 wrong corpus for a thesis and cannot verify a reference against the scholarly record.