Today’s show with Stephen Armstrong explores the gaps in educational outcomes with evolving industry needs through the life of emergent talent and student-led efforts to bring the two into closer alignment. There is a growing disconnect between the traditional, high financial cost of formal higher education and its actual, measurable return on investment (ROI). This is [...]
There is a claim AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself. Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. This has been covered in multiple sources since 2025. But is it true? 5 key takeaways:AI is forcing universities to [...]
Katherine Rundell’s recent Guardian article raises an important warning: if students use AI to bypass reading, writing and intellectual struggle, they may produce better-looking work while learning less. Critical thinking, interpretation, communication and understanding of people developed through the humanities and social sciences will become more important in an AI-shaped society. However, framing the choice as [...]
Career Month is an international celebration of careers! Each November, Canadians and Americans, celebrate the importance of accessing meaningful work and all those who help in connecting people with preferred futures. We speak to 2 Canada career month organizers, Ali Breen and Judy McKinnon to tell us more about, in the second half of today’s show. [...]
