Zara Siddiqui

Is the podcast industry becoming too saturated?

Nowadays, you can find a podcast for every taste, interest, and topic of discussion. From literary criticism, to true crime, to A-Level revision, as of September 2025 there are over 4.52 million podcasts available worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of new shows launched in the past three months. If a...
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Posted Nov. 7, 2025

Thousands of students caught using AI amid mounting academic integrity epidemic

The number of UK university students caught cheating using AI for assignments has rapidly increased in 2025, with apps like ChatGPT growing in popularity. Generative AI, while still a relatively new concept in academia, has been found useful as a guide or a grammar checking tool, and for helping students...
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Posted Jul. 17, 2025

The debate surrounding e-readers: print versus digital reading

Some would say that our mediums of reading have not transformed the experience much – after all, we have progressed from inscriptions on clay tablets to scrolling through text on digital tablets. However, nowadays there is a debate as to whether this rising culture of e-reading is overshadowing traditional print...
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Posted Jan. 24, 2025

Diversity scheme to support disadvantaged students ‘undermines’ Oxford’s integrity, claim professors

A diversity scheme which aims to increase the number of students from under-represented backgrounds at Oxford has been criticised by some professors for ‘undermining’ the university’s academic reputation. The Opportunity Oxford scheme currently reserves 1 in 10 undergraduate places for disadvantaged students, equating to 220 students in the upcoming academic...
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Posted Jan. 2, 2025