To Help Students Flourish in an AI-Shaped World, Higher Education Must Instil Wisdom, Character, and Community
UK universities face mounting pressure as AI reshapes learning, prompting debate over the distinct value of higher education. The University of Birmingham responded with a university‑wide curriculum overhaul called Ad Alta, built around Intellectual Curiosity, Future Readiness, and Practical Wisdom. The model weaves AI literacy, ethical reflection, and experiential learning into every year of undergraduate study and into postgraduate pathways. By embedding these dimensions, Birmingham aims to produce graduates who combine technical fluency with judgment, creativity, and civic responsibility.
The AI Guidance Gap Is a Mental Health Problem
Universities are grappling with an AI guidance gap that leaves students uncertain about permissible use, prompting many to avoid generative tools altogether. A recent survey shows only 36% of students receive institutional AI skill support, while the OIA reports a...
Playful Leadership Development in Mid-Career Academic Mentoring and Coaching
Queen Mary’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences introduced a two‑day, faculty‑wide mentoring program for mid‑career researchers that replaces traditional KPI‑driven workshops with playful, creative activities. Participants used visual metaphors, silent paper‑tower challenges, and sensory exercises to reflect on career...
How Ukraine Regulates AI in Education During the Russian Invasion
Ukraine has crafted a tiered, soft‑law framework to govern AI use in higher and secondary education amid the ongoing war. The Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Education issued two recommendation documents that translate ethical principles into actionable...
Safeguarding the Art of Lecturing in an AI Age
University lecturers are increasingly seeing their own teaching materials uploaded into AI tutoring tools without permission. While AI can provide valuable one‑to‑one support, it also learns from lecture slides, recordings and practice questions, potentially reproducing content and even the lecturer’s...
How Universities Can Rise to the Challenge of an Unpredictable Future Workplace
Universities UK launched the Future Universities campaign to align higher education with a rapidly changing labour market. Government forecasts predict that by 2035, 88% of new jobs will require graduate‑level skills, creating a need for more than 11 million additional graduates....
What Needs to Change to Make Evidence-Based Teaching the Norm?
The article argues that evidence‑based teaching cannot become standard without dedicated funding for discipline‑based education research (DBER) in the UK. It highlights how the pandemic, generative AI, and mounting pressures on universities expose the fragility of teaching that relies on...