Exactly. I think only software developers believe AI is going to kill app subscriptions, because they're the ones who can actually wrangle the output into something maintainable.
For anyone without dev or product experience, getting beyond a basic feature set and keeping it running reliably (or roll it out to > 1 user) is still a massive challenge.
Me too! I usually get pretty obsessed with a new topic out of deep curiosity. I then dive deep, think about it a lot, hunt down answers to burning questions. At some point this’ll fade and then I feel like I know enough.
I’m not sure where you’ve got the stats from, but student visas granted dropped since 2022, acc to UK gov (-5% in 2023, -14% in 2024).[0]
Combined with universities' increasing reliance on international student income (over the last years) and issues accessing research funding, this can get universities into trouble.
Yes I’d agree with that. International student income dropped, rounds of layoffs.
Some universities are better at optimising for rankings, see also REF research funding and how much effort and resources are spent on it, which varies by university: https://2029.ref.ac.uk/about/what-is-the-ref/