April 2, 2025

Exeter expert outlines challenges to adopting AI across government

The image shows a person holding out their hand, with a glowing digital AI chip or processor graphic hovering above it. The AI chip has circuit-like connections spreading outward and is surrounded by various technology icons including cloud storage, settings, devices, and servers. The background has a teal/blue tone. Credit: Shutterstock

An Exeter digital economist appeared before the government’s Public Accounts Committee to highlight some of the issues with deploying AI across public sector organisations. The government has repeatedly stressed its desire to increase economic growth through the mass take-up of AI systems, including in the public sector, and an official plan published in January called for the […]

Is a ‘co-opetition’ model the way to safeguard higher education for future generations?

Shared support functions don’t mean the end of competition among institutions, writes Mark Thompson. Instead, collective thinking could focus effort on universities’ strengths and potentially rescue the sector from ‘an unsustainable race to the bottom’ Here’s a question: just how bad do we think things can get in our individual universities before we’re prepared to […]