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Podcast: Free speech bill, Brown review, ChatGPT

This week on the podcast the Free Speech Bill has cleared report stage in the Lords and NDAs have been banned in the process – we discuss what happens next.

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Podcasts|9/12/22
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Team Wonkhe

News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks
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  • Assessment
  • Freedom of speech
  • generative ai
  • Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill 2021
  • Teaching & Learning
Team Wonkhe
News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks

This week on the podcast the Free Speech Bill has cleared report stage in the Lords and NDAs have been banned in the process - we discuss what happens next.

Plus Gordon Brown’s review of devolution has implications for HE, and we wonder whether Chat-GPT will kill the essay as an assessment tactic.

With Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy at University of Bristol, Jonathan Grant, Director at Different Angles, Sunday Blake, Associate Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, Editor in Chief at Wonkhe.

Featured on the show this week

  • Report stage in the Lords for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill brought a big surprise and a hefty government defeat. Jim Dickinson tries to avoid crashing the car.
  • The new Brown Review promises local say on skills and research.
  • Has artificial intelligence become a legitimate concern for plagiarism? James Bagshaw investigates the discussion around the use of the AI chat tool, ChatGPT.

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