Tag: Students

University graduates in England only have the same literacy levels as school-leavers in Finland, worrying new data from the OECD show.

An empirical MIT study has found that ChatGPT and other similar AI systems erode students' capacity to read, write and think critically. This should be obvious, says Prof James Alexander, but we have been warned.

In January 2021, Leeds student Xen Watts organised a lockdown snowball fight and was hit with a £10k fine that ruined his life. Half of the 120,000 Covid fines went to 18-24 year-olds. We owe young people a massive apology.

Labour is poised today to announce the first rise in university tuition fees in eight years, setting them on course to exceed £10,000. In 2020, Keir Starmer pledged to "support the abolition of tuition fees".

A freedom of speech row has erupted at Durham University as one of its oldest societies, the 182 year-old Durham Union debating society, was banned from taking part in freshers' fair over "DEI non-compliance".

Oxford was keen to acknowledge racial tensions in the recent riots, but this felt like a cruel joke to Jewish students, coming from a university that has never recognised the open targeting of Jews since October 7th.

"Tune in, turn on, grow up!" Jordan Peterson tells Joe Rogan it's time to put the permanent adolescence of the 1960s behind us. It's Peterson vs Peter Pan, says Prof James Alexander.

Universities are in the midst of a financial crisis, with a dramatic drop in demand leading to the closure of arts and humanities degrees across England.

Stunt protest is very much like contemporary art: incomprehensible until one reads the label. If only the protestors would take their hammers, chisels and glue to the exhibits at the Tate Modern, says James Alexander.

Shameful scenes of pro-Palestine supporters chanting the genocidal slogan 'From the river to the sea' and inciting an 'intifada' have sprung up at universities across the country.