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Interesting blog from a US outdoor wear retailer about why they can't just onshore their manufacturing back to the US. wild-rye.com/blogs/news/wha…

This idea is intriguing, but devil's in the details A promising model to do this is national or state/provincial level sovereign wealth funds that hold shares of the largest companies and pay dividends.

Says something about the priorities of university admins that they mobilized to rapidly enact sweeping institutional changes during the COVID crisis (because it threatened The Money) but not AI, the gravest danger to higher ed in modern history, which merely threatens learning.

The takeaway here should not be that students are lazy. 18 year olds aren’t the problem. The problem is that universities have failed to make a persuasive case to their “customers” that they are educational institutions rather than companies that dispense “I’m employable” stamps.

I just failed a student for submitting an AI-written research paper, and she sent me an obviously AI-written email apologizing, asking if there is anything she can do to improve her grade. We are through the looking-glass, folks.

Elephant in the room: "I remember offhandedly remarking, “Sure, but I mean, they still need to learn how to write a paper.” ... I began to see all of these committee meetings were dancing around the unspoken follow-up question: “Do they?"" thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

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Ahead of Liz Kendall’s speech today – a quick thread on why the welfare state isn’t collapsing and why deep cuts to disability benefits aren’t the answer. (1/9)

📢 Today, we release new research with MS Society UK on the experiences of 1,125 people with multiple sclerosis. It explores the barriers and enablers to accessing & staying in work with 96% of respondents stating MS impacted their ability to work. (1/10) lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundatio…

Recent Pew polling on AI is crazy: 1. US public wildly negative about AI, huge disagreement with experts 2. ~2x as many expect AI to harm as benefit them 3. Public more concerned than excited at ~4.5 to 1 ratio 4. Public & experts think regulation will not go far enough 1/

Marx: ‘a mode of production whose laws can only assert themselves as blindly operating averages between constant irregularities’, and Thomas Hardy:

Broken budgets, and broken English Sheffield Hallam’s financial woes are deepening — and staff claim students are being “set up to fail” sheffieldtribune.co.uk/broken-budgets…

File Cutters at Cammell Laird's Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield. One of a series of paintings by Edward Frederick Skinner reproduced as postcards to raise funds for the Red Cross in 1917.

I viscerally hate doubting that a human has written the essays I’m marking. There’s no more miserable predicament in which to mark.

For all the recent focus on incentives in the benefits system, it's a lack of suitable & supportive jobs that prevents many disabled people moving into work This online NEF event (June 19th, 10am) will explore the changes we need to see to address this eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-not-me-i…

Students who worry that a closed book exam will ‘reduce knowledge to simple rote learning’ are either afraid to learn things or don’t understand that learning does, in fact, require learning.

The logical end point. IV eats itself.

I really hope this is 100% correct.

Pleased to announce that our paper 'The role of education in the disability employment gap' is now published as an advance article in Oxford Economic Papers. This is the first of three Sheffield Economics papers funded by Nuffield Foundation. academic.oup.com/oep/advance-ar…