“They are taking away the few opportunities left”
Applicants for Chevening scholarships — the UK government’s own flagship awards — describe what the visa brake means for them, including an Afghan graduate whose studies ended when the Taliban returned in 2021. The position is peculiar: one arm of government funds the scholarship while another bars the nationality from a study visa.
What AI has exposed about staff, not just students
A second piece from an academic lead argues that generative AI has revealed uneven staff capability as much as student misuse — markers who cannot tell what a tool produced, modules where the assessment was always weak, and institutions carrying risk they have not measured. Where your department lands on that spectrum decides how fairly any accusation against you will be handled.