Eight research-intensive universities in the Midlands have established a new investment company to accelerate the commercialisation of university spinouts and early-stage IP-rich businesses in…
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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…
250 students across Surrey attend STEM festival at Surrey school
On 29 March, ACS International School Cobham welcomed 250 Surrey schoolchildren to attend SATROFest, a fun-filled event for Year 8 and 9 students which…
Lack of industry knowledge holding UK graduates back
Graduates are missing out on higher starting salaries in fintech roles because they feel they don’t have enough knowledge of the sector. A new…
Student’s app aims to catch AI essay cheats
An app built by a University of Bristol student helps detect essays written by AI bots like ChatGPT. Ed Daniels’s software startup, called AIED.UK,…
The secret to STEM diversity may lie in peer mentorship
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst published a paper in Nature Communications showing that when first-year female STEM students are mentored by student peers, the…
Budding engineers crowned FIRST LEGO League All-Ireland champions
A team of young engineers from Holywood, County Down, have been crowned champions of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) FIRST LEGO League All-Ireland National Final…
City, University of London to open UK’s largest AR/VR design learning centre in partnership with ARuVR
ARuVR, an end-to-end, enterprise-grade Extended Reality (XR) training platform, has announced a three-year partnership with City, University of London to provide its award-winning technology…
Discussing an exciting future for computing education
Key figures involved in ensuring every child in England receives a world-leading computing education met in London to outline how they’re aiming to help…
Getting women into STEM is an economic imperative
Speaking at the ‘Empower Your Workforce’ Conference on 21 March, WISE CEO Kay Hussain drove home the economic argument for employing more women in…