One hundred female Year 8 student from Birmingham schools took part in an ‘explorer day’ organised by the Cyber Security Innovation (CSI) Centre at Aston Business School.…
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National Robotics Week: the future of robotics in education
National Robotics Week is an annual event that takes place in April to celebrate and promote robotics technology and its impact on society. The…
Future engineering skills in the age of artificial intelligence
The CEO of UKESF (UK Electronics Skills Foundation), Stew Edmondson, has recently unveiled a report titled ‘Future Engineering Skills in the Age of Artificial…
ChatGPT writes paper on opportunities and challenges of AI in academia
A study, largely composed with the help of ChatGPT, suggests that the academic community could experience both promising opportunities and notable difficulties due to…
National Apprenticeship Week: Why apprenticeships matter
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, so what better time is there to explore why apprenticeships matter, how they can help not only students…
Upskilling future talent to ensure a smooth transition to sustainable mobility
The world is facing a global skills shortage of epic proportions. It’s the most severe of the past 16 years. According to a recent…
Can AI be used for scientific imagery?
Famously, an image produced by an artificial intelligence (AI) has recently won the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition, suggesting AI can be creative.…
Can apprenticeships help the UK’s labour market and close the STEM skills gap?
It is no secret that the UK employment market has changed in the past few years, both as a result of Brexit and the…
Pearson plan to sell textbooks as NFTs
Academic textbook publisher, Pearson, is planning to sell second-hand copies of its digital textbooks as NFTs. But what is an NFT exactly, and how…
Record numbers of 18-year-olds take up their place at university
Nearly 180,000 18-year-old students in England have had their place at their first choice of university confirmed. This is the largest number ever on…