Generative AI as a diagnosis of assessment, not just a threat to it
An academic lead for teaching argues that AI has revealed how much university assessment was measuring the ability to produce a document rather than the understanding behind it, and that the reforms now under way — vivas, supervised work, staged submissions — are ones the sector could have made a decade ago. Expect more variation between modules while departments decide. Academic misconduct covers the rules as they stand.
Starting sport in second semester, when everyone else already has
A guide to getting into university sport in February, which is the point at which the January resolution has collapsed and the clubs have settled into teams. The useful part: most clubs run beginner sessions all year and university gyms are cheaper than anything commercial, which matters more than motivation. University sport and fitness covers starting from nothing.