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The fair is visited every year by thousands of young people who intend to enter higher education.
Rogério Casanova argues that not all functional academic writing—such as recommendation letters or election manifestos—needs to be crafted by highly skilled humans. He advocates for more explicit manifestos and institutional policies governing the use of AI in universities, allowing routine and low-value writing to be delegated to tools while preserving human oversight where it matters. The column frames such manifestos as pragmatic, ethical guides to protect quality, fairness and accountability in higher education’s adoption of AI.
Exploring methods, challenges and implications of using artificial intelligence to teach and assess students in higher education.
Students will continue to use AI; they will just do so covertly, without any framework, without literacy and without ethics. Opinion by Nelson Zagalo
The real question is not about banning or not banning, or about whether to use AI. The paradox is an old one: knowledge is not transmitted, it is constructed. That construction takes place from the inside out. Column by Filipa M. Ribeiro
CRUP has never issued guidelines, but the use of AI has been widely discussed and integrated by institutions, says Paulo Ferreira.
The dean of the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Pedro Oliveira, considers it 'impossible' to ban the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, after a group of higher education professors signed a manifesto to that effect, arguing that the use of generative AI is creating 'digital cretins'. 'It was reported that a ...'
Dozens of professors from higher education institutions across the country have signed a manifesto against the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), warning of the transformation of students into “digital The post Digital idiots: university professors call for ban on use of AI in Higher Education appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The text, signed by 28 professors, aims 'to promote the humanisation of higher education and to ban the use of artificial intelligence in learning processes'.
The OECD is also concerned about the risks of using AI in education.
A manifesto signed by dozens of professors. They want to put an end to the deluge of 'artificial assignments systematically brought down to mediocrity by a chatbot'.
Ivo Vieira, CEO of Lusospace — Portugal’s first homegrown space company — explains on the podcast 'O Futuro do Futuro' how the country’s Aerospace Engineering courses continue to post record-breaking averages and how that strong educational pipeline is producing talent the national space sector can recruit across roles, not only engineers. He stresses that the quality of graduates makes recruitment easier for emerging Portuguese space firms, signalling a maturing ecosystem linking higher education and industry needs.
The Harvard physics professor speaks to PÚBLICO about the challenges academic institutions face in the era of artificial intelligence. A hint: teaching methods will have to change.
NOVA IMS (NOVA School of Information Management) is the information management and data science faculty of NOVA University Lisbon. It specialises in data science, information management and business analytics through taught programmes, applied research and industry partnerships. The school emphasises quantitative methods, practical analytics skills and interdisciplinary approaches to prepare graduates for roles in data-driven organisations and to support research and consulting activity across public and private sectors.
After meeting with the Council of Rectors of the Azores, the minister said that, besides the space centre on Santa Maria, the region's contribution will come through 'other strengths, many at the University'.
The Minister of Education, Science and Innovation should be given the opportunity to outline the plan to revive fundamental science in Portugal and to build a modern scientific system. Opinion by Jorge Almeida.
