1. With limited evidence, and after further reading the article, this headline is potentially misleading ... ‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

Kathy Armour Miranda 4. The evidence-based on phone/media effects on wellbeing is also inconclusive; - The Guardian Uni of Birmingham we are leading a national National Institute for Health and Care Research study SMARTSchoolsStudy comparing wellbeing of pupils in schools that do/don't 'ban' phones: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/sport-…

“Chancellor’s refusal to publish forecast contributed to stock market jitters and run on pound” Just as so many people predicted it would. The whole context of the mini-budget was a glut of irresponsibly dangerous behaviour. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

#OpenAI shelves chatbot text detector over accuracy concerns #ChatGPT creator concedes tool set up to help educators identify when students are using #AI in essays does not work properly timeshighereducation.com/news/openai-sh… via Times Higher Education

So lovely to have us four back together again ⁦@ECER_EERA⁩ ⁦EERA NW18⁩ ⁦Dr Oliver Hooper⁩ ⁦Dr Rachel Sandford⁩ ⁦⁦Kathy Armour⁩ ⁦LboroSSEHS⁩ ⁦UCC Ireland⁩ ⁦UCL⁩

We are delighted to share that UCL has been awarded the University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide! 🎊 Read more ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/sep/… The Times and The Sunday Times #GoodUniGuide #LoveUCL

Well-deserved recognition for one of the UK's intellectual powerhouses. It's a privilege to work with students and colleagues at UCL

"It just seems to me completely illogical and self-defeating not to make it easier for musicians touring around Europe to be able to do so without the weight of bureaucracy,” Nick Thomas-Symonds at Trade Unlocked mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

It’s interesting to me that whenever Brexiters talk about the reasons we’ll supposedly never rejoin the EU, they always cite the Euro and Schengen. Two things we had opt outs on when we were members. Brexit was a bad idea and they know it.

.UCL is preparing to launch its new east London campus, which seeks to harness the power of the research heavyweight to tackle the biggest challenges the world faces timeshighereducation.com/news/ucl-east-…

Olympic champion & former @UCL student Christine Uhuruogu Christine Ohuruogu pushed the button to officially open UCL East campus today. The east London campus Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is designed as a direct response to the biggest challenges facing people & the planet ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/sep/…

An incredible milestone in the journey of our #EastBank project 🎉 Congrats to @UCL on the opening of UCL East campus!

Today marks the start of our 2023-24 academic year and we are so happy to see so many of you on campus! We want to wish all our new students a warm welcome to UCL, and for many of you, to London 🇬🇧 To our returning students, it’s great to have you back again! 👋 #WelcomeToUCL

Are too many people going to university?🤔 Our report shows that more than 11 million extra grads, in addition to the 15.3 million grads currently in the UK workforce, will be needed to fill jobs in the UK by 2035📈 Hear from vivienne stern👇

Staff and students across UCL ran amazing projects over the summer to investigate the impact of AI on their subjects and studies. Join lunch & learn online sessions to hear what they learnt, ask questions and share ideas. Starting this Wed 26, 1-2pm ucl.ac.uk/changemakers/a…

A former Minister writes: The Bologna Process 25 years on: higher education quality and international trust hepi.ac.uk/2023/10/25/the…

“The real challenge of ChatGPT… is not how to police plagiarism more effectively. The question is whether plagiarism or cheating are even useful categories of pedagogic concern when the world is adopting generative AI at breakneck speed.” NYU Abu Dhabi VC Westermann at #THEmena

UCL has announced a new Master's scholarship scheme to enable 100 of India’s brightest students to study in the UK at one of the world’s leading universities, as well as its first ever Summer School for pre-university students in the country. #UCLandIndia ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/nov/…

This is formal but here goes. The family of Sir Tim Brighouse are very sad to announce that Tim died in the John Radcliffe Hospital today after a short illness. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather and a towering figure in the word of education. 1/