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What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

From Peter Mandelson’s intervention today:

In return, Mandelson said universities would need to make “more tough choices” to improve efficiency, noting that Italian state universities had one teaching staff for every 21 students while UK universities had one for every 13.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/sep/25/raise-tuition-fees-to-ease-pressure-on-english-universities-says-peter-mandelson

I’m increasingly convinced GenAI will be proposed as a way to reduce staffing. The automation agenda I wrote about in the final chapter of Generative AI for Academics will imminently hit UK higher education and we are not prepared for it.

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