Last week, the most prominent news in the higher education sector in the US was that the provost (and the chief academic officer) at Dartmouth College resigned. Dartmouth College is a premier institution of higher learning in the United States and while many readers of this newspaper may not really care about a higher education official of a US institution leaving his post, I believe that the reasons for his departure are relevant beyond the US and worthy of our reflection.

Dr Santiago Schnell, who served as the provost at Dartmouth for just over a year, was a well-regarded scholar in the field of mathematical biology. He had trained at Oxford and prior to his position at Dartmouth, he had worked at Indiana University, University of Michigan and University of Notre Dame. In August and September of this year, two news outlets – Semafor in August and The Dartmouth, the university student newspaper, in September – revealed that Dr Schnell had widely used generative AI in his........

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