Claire McNabIt turns out that #AI is mimicking the output of #Oxbridge / #PublicSchool alumni: plausible bullshit, assserted with eloquent confidence
h/t @Natasha_Jay
Dr Ian McCormick"leading selective universities should have to limit their intake of privately educated UK undergraduates to a more representative 10% each year, compared with the c. 30% that universities such as Oxford, Durham and Cambridge currently admit." #highered #academicsky #edchat #inequality #Oxbridge
"pupils from prestigious private schools who went to leading universities were 52 times more likely to reach elite positions in society than those who attended any other schools."
#highered #academicsky #edchat #inequality #Oxbridge #education
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Gary HallEven if Trinity Hall, Cambridge backs away from this reportedly 'immoral' strategy of targeting recruitment at elite private schools such as Eton and Winchester, it still tells you a lot about what many people in these institutions really think.
Defund them!
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
#HE #highered #universities #oxbridge #Cambridge #class #classwar
Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
A #video of my 'Liquidate AI Art' talk for the Computer Arts Society is now available:
https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art
‘This talk expands on my recent #book ‘Masked Media: What It Means To Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence’:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
It argues for liquidating #AI #art, not out of a dismissal of #artificialintelligence as techno-fascist, nihilist or parrot-like, but an insistence that art has always been created by assemblages of #humans and nonhumans.
The talk references Frieder Nake’s assertion that art should not be divided into commodifiable styles based on the #tools used, but should function as a radical force capable of disrupting the hierarchies of the art world.
Picking up on this challenge, ‘Liquidate AI Art’ shows how UK arts funding today overwhelmingly benefits upper- and middle-class, privately educated #Oxbridge #graduates.
What’s needed is a #redistribution of resources to support radically different artistic practices.
cathillDo British royals get admitted to Oxford or Cambridge even if they do not have the required high school grades?
#uk #ukuniversities #oxbridge #oxford #cambridge #ucas #sixthform #alevels #universityadmissions #collegeadmissions #universities #royalfamily #ukroyals #britishroyalty #highschoolgrades
#uk #ukuniversities #oxbridge #oxford #cambridge #ucas #sixthform #alevels #universityadmissions #collegeadmissions #universities #royalfamily #ukroyals #britishroyalty #highschoolgrades
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️They call it #OxBridge because CamFord sounds like an auto part.
Andy#Education #University #Universities #UK #England #Oxford #Cambridge #LSE #LondonSchoolofeconomics #Durham #UniversityOfDurham #DurhamUniversity #SaintAndrews #StAndrews #Oxbridge #OxfordUniversity #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityRankings #ranking #News
So much for the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, and the “prestigious universities”. Bring on a new contest between St. Andrew’s and the LSE.
Oxford University pushed out of top three in UK university rankings for first time https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-09-19/oxford-university-pushed-out-of-top-three-uk-university-ranking-for-first-time?utm_source=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈When these people pontificate on our lives like they know better, remember it's nothing but a white people's club for the elites, not an actual place of knowledge and discovery.
They'd like us to think they have the finest minds in there but really it's just mediocre and over-confident posh people and a few genuine geniuses they have hanging around.