Detection software is catching the wrong students
Students at York have raised concerns that neurodivergent students are being disproportionately accused of using AI in assignments, because the writing patterns detectors treat as suspicious — repetition, formulaic structure, unusual phrasing — are the patterns some people write in naturally. There needs to be more awareness of how these policies land on different groups, students say. If you are flagged, ask for the evidence and for your support plan to be considered. Academic misconduct covers the process.
Health and safety law treats students differently from staff
Wonkhe examines a gap that has been in the law for decades: employees are covered by health and safety duties that do not extend to students in the same way, so a student injured in a lab or a workshop is in a weaker position than the technician beside them. It is the same legal hole the duty of care debate keeps circling.
“Rats died in my walls”: what students are renting
Cardiff students describe their housing — damp, infestations, repairs that never come — in the month when next year’s contracts are being signed. Two things are worth knowing before signing: a landlord in Wales must be registered and licensed under Rent Smart Wales, and environmental health at the council can compel repairs when a letting agent will not. Finding student housing covers checks before you sign.
A Cambridge offer sent by mistake to a student banned from coming
A Sudanese applicant was sent a Cambridge offer in error, having been made ineligible by the government’s visa restriction, and says she was left humiliated. It is a small administrative failure sitting on top of a policy that has run through this year’s news, and it illustrates how little the two systems — admissions and immigration — speak to each other.