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Generative AI can summarise a canonical text in seconds. So why has Jan Gilles gone back to teaching social theory with a printer, a pencil, and an hour of collective close reading? A case for friction in the classroom.
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Benign neglect on the left. A bitter pill on the right. And no cavalry coming over the hill. Huw Morris (IoE) and @IGMansfield (@Policy_Exchange ) on what the UK party conferences revealed about the future of higher education https://t.co/9b94vgeCrw

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If AI can do everything, what skills should we be teaching students? Casey Kearney (LSE) talks to Teddy Svoronos (Harvard Kennedy School) on redesigning quantitative teaching when AI can do the analysis — and what cognitive debt actually means.
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Why should students on a qualitative humanitarian programme learn data analysis? For LSE Stuart Gordon the answer isn't employability. It's about seeing how the evidence is made, whose experiences the numbers hide & critical scrutiny of quantitative claims https://t.co/ysAQg5Hdyn

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How's your squiggly academic career? @AlicjaSyska on 20 years of building an academic career sideways and why the improvisation that 'scrappers' have always practised may now need to be every academics most urgent skill in a sector in freefall. https://t.co/Xcd7sCWsF8

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Is there a spiral of silence in your classroom? What's the real cost of cancel culture? Is 'Global South' still fit for purpose? Who sounds like you in academia? Is the essay dead?
Five conversation starters for topics to explore this term. https://t.co/X16jowWukz

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As the academic year draws to a close, we asked our LSE HE Blog Fellows to consider what has changed in higher education or challenged their thinking - find out, and tell us what changed or challenged YOUR thinking this year? https://t.co/vgcMFuFMhl

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"Half of my prompt file could be summarised in one instruction the model is not built to receive: stop being so nice and helpful!" Read part 2 of opening the AI black box: Savvas Verdis on teaching an AI coach to push back. https://t.co/lk4zmC81k6

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Just as a syllabus describes a course, an AI learning coach's system prompt describes how a student experiences it.
So should students see it? Savvas Verdis on opening the AI black box — and why he's publishing his own prompt. https://t.co/HMRiIWIWKu

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"You need to learn the canon before you can reinvent it." Forget the solitary scholar - teaching scholarship is dialogue, reflection, collective work. Four voices on what interview-based scholarship reveals about contemporary teaching. https://t.co/zHFXUNthgl

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Government threats to defund DEI look like defeat. But view them simply as bad pedagogy: top-down, ineffective, impossible to control, and Ijeoma Njaka finds hope in subversion. https://t.co/HSKIf1h1Vj

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Western European academia portrays itself as "open, competitive, and diverse" while maintaining exclusionary structures. Tamas Ziegler & Anna Unger on privilege escalation, EU "sludge" and the self-colonisation of Eastern European scholars: https://t.co/1W2RCjTmCp

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"When you publish this piece, you're saying this knowledge matters, this person has something to contribute. It's not a neutral act, it's field building"
Three editors on curation, the invisible labour of SoTL editing & cross-fertilisation with teaching
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Happy 7th birthday to the LSE HE Blog 🎉
From dismantling accent discrimination to measuring academic freedom, from playful classrooms to merger reality checks – a year of sparking dialogue across HE
in just five posts. https://t.co/Q28KJseOfs

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What if you taught ethnography through theatre? Cristiana Giordano & Greg Pierotti developed "affect theatre" - students collaborate to build performances from research, learning to feel the connection between experience & scholarly representation. https://t.co/voyf7KfCaa

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"If students don't understand that our beliefs can also be facts, they're more likely to think there are no answers in philosophy" Jake Wright on combating naïve scepticism in first-year philosophy – and why it matters for navigating the post-truth era https://t.co/GYlllVjxtI

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"Open questions can be frustrating." But in disability studies pedagogy, they're invitations for reflection that lead to concrete practice changes. Miro Griffiths on teaching with resistance, interdependence, and persistent questioning. https://t.co/BgHbmRsJm7

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"The real risk is not that students will use AI; but that educators continue to grade outputs AI can generate while pretending they still certify human competence" – Ignacio Aravena Gonzalez on redesigning assessment: grade the audit, not the artefact
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"Strategy trumps money" in university mergers, but culture determines success. Elizabeth Hill, Chris Husbands & Huw Morris on why mergers take decades, cost more than expected & require both head and heart 🎧https://t.co/t7FZYql3y5

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"There's no chance in hell for anyone who actually sounds like Stormzy making it in academia."
Aymen Idris on UK HE's sonic straitjacket: why an RP accent remains the unofficial entry fee & code-switching is exhausting, unacknowledged labour. https://t.co/cuzLVan2hz