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The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers – and parents

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Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surpriseSchools banning pupils from having smartphones are commonplace. But what about a school where pupils ban teachers from using their smartphones, and then get their parents to join in?And not just phones: at Holy Family Catholic primary school in west London teachers […]

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Labour will make AI ‘work for the workers’, says Liz Kendall

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Technology secretary promises to support people whose jobs are swept away by automationLiz Kendall has insisted Labour will make artificial intelligence “work for workers”, and not abandon people whose jobs are swept away by its rapid advance.With public fears mounting about the impact of AI on employment, particularly for young people, the technology secretary claimed

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Careers guidance should be at the centre of Alan Milburn’s final Neet report | Letters

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Dr Deirdre Hughes says the issue of chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities needs to be addressedAlan Milburn’s interim review into young people not in education, employment or training lays bare what those of us working in careers support services have long observed: this is a system failure, not

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Smartglasses and earpieces may worsen exam cheating in schools, says Ofqual

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Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian BauckhamCheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, according to England’s qualifications watchdog.Ian Bauckham, the head of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual),

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Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England

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DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist tech support for tens of thousands of disabled students in England.Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition opposing Department for Education

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Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: June 2026 edition

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This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 June and 31 July 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 2 June 2026 Drones, Swarm Intelligence, and the Future of Cyber-Physical Societies Speakers: Franco Accordino and Monika Lanzenberger (European Commission)

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Image Empire – a new short film from Alan Warburton

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Image Empire is an animated fairytale about the fusion of the real and the virtual within contemporary AI models. The film forms part of a research project undertaken by Alan Warburton which also includes a research paper and a series of satellite events. The film is based on doctoral research undertaken at Birkbeck’s Vasari Centre

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‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

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The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’“I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536,” a young woman in a green puffer jacket tells the camera. “I’m going to check in at my room in the inn, get into the

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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

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As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous moveLong before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with

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Dangers of putting pupils’ images on school websites | Letters

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Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire BessantIt was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are being blackmailed with AI-generated child sexual abuse images created from photos shared on school websites and social media pages (UK schools

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