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- âI hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the youngâ: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom August 8, 2026Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise […]Katherine Rundell
- The Guardian view on Jason Arday: diversity advocates must stand firm | Editorial August 7, 2026Serious failings by one academic, and his bosses at the University of Cambridge, should not be allowed to undermine wider progressive goalsJason Ardayâs resignation from the University of Cambridge on Wednesday marked a full stop of sorts, but not an end to the furore surrounding his promotion to a professorship at the age of 37. […]Editorial
- Cambridge academics reject universityâs attempt to end row over Jason Arday August 7, 2026Group calls for âthorough and transparent investigationâ of hiring of professor who resigned after his claims came under scrutinyThe University of Cambridge has announced a review into the way it vets and hires senior academic staff in an effort to fend off external and internal criticism of its appointment of Jason Arday as a professor.But […]Richard Adams, Education editor
- With their assault on science, Trumpists arenât just harming America â theyâre harming themselves | Jan-Werner MĂŒller August 7, 2026The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progressThe Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries have harmed universities by imposing neoliberal logics on academia â creating artificial markets in the name of spurring […]Jan-Werner MĂŒller
- Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment August 7, 2026Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job, a government review […]Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
- Friday briefing: What the Jason Arday row reveals about equality in modern Britain August 7, 2026In todayâs newsletter: Reputational power operates unevenly across elite organisationsâ in British public life, shaping whose misâtakes become scandals and whose are quietly absorbedGood morning. Instinct told me we should avoid this story. Europe is on fire, Gaza is besieged and Donald Trump remains in control of the worldâs largest nuclear arsenal.Allegations against British sociologist […]Michael Segalov
- Plagiarism and a pigâs head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday â podcast August 7, 2026Jason Ardayâs appointment as Cambridgeâs youngest black professor made global headlines. Then questions about his meteoric rise began to snowball. Lanre Bakare reports.When the University of Cambridge appoints a new professor, it doesnât usually make global headlines. But Jason Arday was different. He was just 37 in 2023 when he became Cambridgeâs youngest black professor, […]Presented by Helen Pidd and Lanre Bakare, with Eli Block, Alex Atack, Nilufer Aumeerally and Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa Khaleeli
- Dons call for Cambridge leaders to take blame for Jason Arday appointment August 6, 2026Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for âgrotesque racism unleashedâThe University of Cambridgeâs leaders deserve blame for the âgrotesque racism unleashedâ by Jason Ardayâs appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the university to hold an independent inquiry.The Guardian understands that senior dons at Cambridge are circulating a joint […]Richard Adams Education editor
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