An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”. What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know...
High school students in the US are tackling the brutal process of college applications with rejection parties, the New York Times reported last week. At one school, students bring along a printout of their college rejections, ceremonially feed them into a shredder, and then get ice cream; there is a prize for the most rejected. It...
The artificial intelligence race is already producing losers. On Tuesday, education companies trading on the London and New York stock exchanges saw hundreds of millions wiped from their valuations after Chegg, a US firm that provides online help to students for writing and maths work, said ChatGPT was affecting customer growth. The firm said it had...
There’s a lot of drama swirling around this groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot, released in November by the startup OpenAI. A few months later, in early March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 was introduced and has already stunned many by easily outperforming its older AI sibling. Not to be outdone, Google announced the arrival of its own AI chatbot, Bard, in late March. Like everywhere...
It’s exam season but with so much studying left to do, how can you cut through the noise – both internal and external – and focus on the materials in front of you? Chances are, your mind is buzzing with myriad thoughts – not all of which are jewels. From what to eat to what...
The Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Eyitope Ogunmodede, has urged the Federal Government to include the private universities as beneficiaries of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund particularly for training, library development and attendance of conferences and workshops. Ogunmodede stated that the intervention highly beneficial to the Nigerians students. The don stated...
The immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, has said that free university education is not sustainable as the introduction of tuition fees in federal universities would go a long way in resolving diverse problems. Daramola, who identified poor funding as a major challenge facing the Nigerian university system...
The Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) has disclosed plans to train thousands of librarians on effective electronic resource sharing and networking in libraries. The Registrar, Professor Michael Afolabi said electronic resource sharing involved a mutual agreement between libraries to exchange resources with each library giving its own materials to other participating libraries and also...
Nigerian Doctor based in the United States of America, Dr Chibawanye Ene has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research. A statement from the Clinical Department, Applied Radiation Oncology U.S., said Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting held from April 13...
The Minister for Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has lauded the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for ensuring optimum service delivery in its operations. The minister said this on Saturday while unveiling the remodeled JAMB Headquarters Complex in Bwari Abuja. Adamu, represented by Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary, National University Commission (NUC) said that the...