A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...
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Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement
Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 17, 2024 Another reason to employ or contract me, a human being. Academics...
Even as I don’t put much weight on numbers…
Even though I do not put much weight on the numbers in my scholarship, The University of Queensland keeps wanting to use the numbers in its public relations exercises, and dismisses that something really bad has happened in Queensland education in the last 30 years....
Are you really listening? Or are you being misguided by your advisers.
Dear VC, You have been completely misguided by your conservative advisors, if what is being said is to ignore the activists. See the THE article below. I and the other critical thinkers are at the cutting-edge of our fields and global knowledge. The difference between...
It is not that I do not Care, But You Do Have the Capacity
Dear VC, It is not that I do not care for your difficult position in my campaign to employ and contract the best and leading candidates for employment and contracting. In the United States the situation is far worse. ...
The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence
“This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent...
TASA Sociology of Education SIG Social Sciences Week Event: Expressions of Interest
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field - how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and...
How to reverse 30 years in higher education policy?
Dear friends, Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years' failure in higher education policies: “There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and...
Max the Cat received an honorary degree…When ‘Fun’ Rules Policy and Politics
“We don’t hand out doctoral degrees here, but I thought it would be fun to give Max one,” Franklin said, noting that Vermont Public Radio covered the story. I, like anyone, will be misunderstood. So, let me be clear : I have no problem in Max the...