The same tool, used two entirely different ways
Research finds disadvantage predicts AI use, but not as assumed: less advantaged students tend to use it as a production shortcut to get work submitted, while better-off peers use it as a tutor to understand material. The gap that opens is in learning rather than in honesty, and no detection tool measures it. Academic misconduct covers where the rules sit.
A city’s first student rugby festival
Newcastle’s intramural rugby teams will compete at Kingston Park next month in the city’s first student rugby festival. Intramural leagues are the part of university sport that takes people who have never played, cost almost nothing, and produce most of the friendships that clubs are actually for. Joining a sports club covers getting in.
Films for the flattest weeks of the year
A list of films for the end of second semester, when the work is relentless and the weather has not turned. Presented as self-care and useful as scheduling: an evening deliberately given to something else is what makes the next day’s work possible. Student mental health covers when it is more than a flat week.