Artificial intelligence in higher education

What role should artificial intelligence play in higher education? From ChatGPT to DeepSeek, generative AI (GenAI) tools of all kinds are forcing a rethink of university teaching, assessment, research and administrative work. Find out how to build AI literacy across an institution, use GenAI to support learning, harness AI tools as teaching and research assistants and manage the risks posed by GenAI and other AI technologies.

By Eliza.Compton, 12 December, 2025

In a world of short attention spans, the best story wins

Computer-generated 3D illustration of Titanic liner

When students become storytellers, rather than passive recipients of knowledge, learning is more memorable. And a little help from GenAI can get them started

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4minutes

By kiera.obrien, 10 December, 2025

A university blueprint for teaching with GenAI

A robot in a mortarboard poses with a diploma

How a human-centred approach to embedding GenAI ensures the tool enhances human reasoning, rather than replacing it, institution-wide

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett, 4 December, 2025

How can we embed Global South perspectives in GenAI teaching?

GenAI can accelerate learning, but if we aren’t careful, it can also reinforce colonial assumptions. Jasmine Mohsen explains how to avoid this

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3minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 4 December, 2025

Assessment needs to grow up: what process and imperfection mean for higher education

Rather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett, 2 December, 2025

AI tools that strengthen students’ communication skills

A student giving a presentation in front of other students

AI can help students reflect, practise and improve the skills employers really value, from writing clearly to speaking confidently and working effectively in teams

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 28 November, 2025

GenAI as a research assistant: transforming start-up due diligence

Male Asian student working on a robot arm

Universities are not just centres of innovation, they are also platforms for promoting the commercialisation of research. As ‘research assistants’, GenAI can open the door for ‘under the radar’ start-ups that human evaluators may miss

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4minutes

By kiera.obrien, 26 November, 2025

Use GenAI as your personal learner engagement analytics expert

Harness the student data in your virtual learning environment with a few choice prompts for GenAI

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett, 20 November, 2025

Why clear GenAI guidance matters to neurodivergent students. And how to get it right

University students sitting at their desks

Neurodivergent students often experience heightened anxiety when GenAI expectations vary across courses. Here’s how to design more consistent guidance

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4minutes

By miranda.prynne, 13 November, 2025

Not faster but fairer: tame ‘techno-solutionism’ to build inclusive futures with AI

University leaders and academics must resist an open-armed embrace of AI and ask tough questions about who, really, is benefitting from its use in order to shape an inclusive future, writes Chie Adachi

By Eliza.Compton, 13 November, 2025

Campus talks: why teaching with artificial intelligence is ‘like a giant field experiment’

THE Award-winning educationalist Jenny Moffett talks about using AI so it supports learning rather than risks deskilling students, dealing with uncertainty in the classroom and the value of boredom

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33minutes

Artificial intelligence in higher education