Education

Fake Degrees and the Cheating Crisis

Buying a degree often resembles a standard online transaction rather than a crime. You enter your credit card details, upload a prompt, and receive a document that looks exactly like learning. But this exchange creates a gap between the grade on paper and the skill in the student’s head. The industry surrounding essay mills…

December 29, 2025

French Studies Decline: The Cold Spot Trap

When institutions obsess over their own balance sheets, they accidentally rig the map against the poor. You might think university course lists change based purely on what students want to learn, but the reality is dictated by a ruthless geography of wealth. A college in a struggling town cuts a course to save a few…

December 18, 2025

Google DeepMind AI Planner Changes UK Classrooms

School reforms usually crawl through years of bureaucracy before they ever reach a single teacher’s desk. The latest initiative from the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) bypasses that traditional delay entirely by plugging directly into Silicon Valley infrastructure. A new partnership has officially launched to build a Google DeepMind AI lesson planner specifically for…

December 17, 2025