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Interesting article. At UCL, we still don't have access to Pangram to check student work, which seems crazy. 'I recently reviewed 1,191 doctoral dissertations from 2025 in the fields of educational leadership and administration. My research suggests that 35 percent of those dissertations were made up of more than a negligible amount — i.e., greater than 10 percent — of AI-generated text. Ten percent were more than 50 percent AI-generated... Before you protest — “AI-detectors are unreliable”; “they’re potentially biased against nonnative speakers”; “they can be tricked” — let me tell you that I used Pangram. It is not for nothing that Pangram has become the tool of choice for much of the internet, as a slew of peer-reviewed research has found that it achieves “near-zero” false-negative and false-positive rates, even against “adversarial” and “humanizing” AI software. I have used Pangram over the last year in my undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses and have found it (with additional safeguards and protocols) to be near-perfect in detecting students’ inappropriate use of AI in their writing. My ongoing study used 100 dissertations published before 2020 as a control; all came out as “100 percent Human” in Pangram.'

Proof if proof were needed that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was necessary. 'A Lancaster spokesperson said it was “fully committed to protecting the free exchange of ideas and opinion on our campus and recognises the fundamental importance of academic freedom and freedom of speech”. “At the same time, we are mindful of our duty of care to the wider university community. Following complaints from a number of staff about comments made in the public domain and their compliance with standards as well as the potential personal impact on colleagues we took the decision to start an independent investigation.' timeshighereducation.com/new…

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Nice to be among many @IOE_London colleagues in the top 2% most highly-cited scholars by field. Too many to tag! ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2026/oct/…

No one should expect to be subjected to aggression and intimidation when giving a lecture at a university. The subject of @AdamWagner1 's lecture makes this all the more shocking. thejc.com/news/uk/masked-gaz…