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To everyone who just got through exam board season: well done.
Genuinely. If you work in higher education, you’ll know that this time of year carries a particular kind of weight. The months of assessment, marking, moderation, and quality assurance that culminate in an exam board aren’t just administrative processes. They are the moment where years of student effort become an official outcome. Getting that right…
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Hello, Sparkline
The Data Goddess has started a company. Today Sparkline Advisory officially launches – a consultancy for universities and colleges that want to manage their data well, meet their regulatory obligations without drama, and adopt AI with something other than panic or blind enthusiasm. If you have followed my work for a while, very little about…
The AI didn’t invent the bias. It just paid attention.
There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes from looking at what an AI system has learned and recognising, in its outputs, something uncomfortably human. Not a glitch. Not a malfunction. Not the robot going rogue. Just a very accurate reflection of the world we gave it to learn from. The algorithm that learned…
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