In September, I wrote a blog post advising against enabling Anthropic in Microsoft Copilot. The reason was that the integration was under completely separate terms and data processing agreements. Thankfully, Microsoft has listened to feedback and onboarded Anthropic as a subprocessor. Whilst this doesn’t significantly change the technical implementation, it completely changes the contractual side. […]
AI is moving quickly across tertiary education. Colleges and universities are exploring how it can support teaching, improve services, widen access, and streamline operations. At the same time, leaders are dealing with genuine concerns about academic integrity, fairness, accuracy, data security, and public trust. Most institutions are still developing their approach to AI governance. The good news is that they […]
The AI in Marking and Feedback Pilot launched earlier this year (the announcement blog for which is linked here), is now well underway across a range of institutions. Designed to explore how AI tools can reduce workload around marking and feedback processes, the pilot includes three platforms—Graide, Keath, and TeacherMatic— being piloted by 14 colleges […]
Over November and December 2025, Jisc convened three roundtables: two face-to-face, in Manchester and London and one online, aimed at staff from Scottish institutions. Bringing together 71 colleagues from across 59 tertiary institutions to explore what skills, knowledge and capabilities learners and students will need in an AI-enabled world. Each session was grounded in the […]
Six months ago, we launched a new community to extend our AI scope into the area of professional services. It’s a broad canvas – admissions, student support, marketing, estates, finance, legal, compliance and more – but beneath all of that complexity sit three institutional priorities that rarely change: improving student experience, strengthening staff capacity, and […]
(note: last updated V2 03 December 2025 – see here for the update history.) Table of Contents Overview of AI tools and data practices Text generation tools ChatGPT (OpenAI) Google Gemini (Education) Anthropic Claude (Enterprise Education versions) Microsoft Copilot (Consumer versions) Microsoft Copilot (Enterprise Education versions) Perplexity Poe (Quora’s AI Assistant Platform) Mistral AI Image […]
Our November collection of articles and announcements to share this month. Research Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy In this short paper, Dobariya & Kumar examine the impact of prompt politeness on large language model (LLM) performance. By rewriting 50 base questions into five tone levels (very polite – very rude) and testing them, the researchers […]
We had our latest community meet up and it was an engaging conversation. Thanks to our members for coming together to contribute. This month’s key discussions looked at the challenges related to the use of AI tools in academic research, issues surrounding licensing complexities, data privacy risks associated with free tools, and the need for […]
Our November HE Community meetup followed a lean-coffee format, with participants voting on the topics they most wanted to explore. Four themes stood out, reflecting ongoing sector-wide questions about staff confidence, assessment design and student engagement with AI. Supporting staff to build confidence in students’ use of AI Staff confidence topped the vote, showing a […]
In our November AI in FE community meetup, we were joined by Alison Fawdrey, English lecturer and digital learning technologist at South Staffordshire College, for a hands-on session. The session explored how generative AI image tools can help facilitate creativity in English classes and support learners with limited confidence or ideas. Warming up: “Is […]