Students at prestigious universities are complaining that the prescribed books on their courses are too long, and summaries are required. Photograph: iStock
We hear a lot these days about declining standards in education, especially in universities, much of it posed by the incursion of artificial intelligence-type tools such as ChatGPT which encourage students to take shortcuts in writing essays.
A professor at Corfu’s Ionian University recently received a bibliography in which the student had listed 15 books which she claimed to have read: none of them exists, but all are listed on an AI facility which she used.
Students at prestigious universities such as Harvard, Columbia and Oxford are complaining that the prescribed books on their courses are too long, and summaries are required.
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