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record: TRV-2026-0097
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timestamp: 2026-07-12T20:55:49.485541Z
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sector: education
headline: Why university lecturers are turning to AI in classes | Letters
dek: I disagree with the decision of lecturers to use artificial intelligence to create teaching materials (‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI, 20 November), though I understand the pressures and incentives that they are responding to. As a recent doctoral graduate, I can only get fixed or zero-hours teaching contracts. Each taught hour may take days of preparation that is not accounted for in the pay formula. I have developed material including work plans, assessments, reading lists and tutorial tasks for three different modules, requiring much more time than I was paid for. If I were able to reuse these materials, my time investment would pay off. Budget cuts and hiring freezes meant that I delivered these modules once. There is simply no incentive for someone to invest time in a module that they may teach only once on a precarious contract. Successive governments’ refusal to invest in higher education has created a situation where the price of quality teaching is paid by teachers. Dr Talia Hussain London • Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
gain_reading: Why university lecturers are turning to AI in classes | Letters: Successive governments’ refusal to invest in higher education has created a situation where the price of quality teaching is paid by teachers.
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key_points: I disagree with the decision of lecturers to use artificial intelligence to create teaching materials (‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI, 20 November), though I understand the pressures and incentives that they are responding to. | As a recent doctoral graduate, I can only get fixed or zero-hours teaching contracts. | Each taught hour may take days of preparation that is not accounted for in the pay formula.
rundown: I disagree with the decision of lecturers to use artificial intelligence to create teaching materials (‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI, 20 November), though I understand the pressures and incentives that they are responding to. As a recent doctoral graduate, I can only get fixed or zero-hours teaching contracts.

Each taught hour may take days of preparation that is not accounted for in the pay formula. I have developed material including work plans, assessments, reading lists and tutorial tasks for three different modules, requiring much more time than I was paid for.
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- journalism | The Guardian | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/25/why-university-lecturers-are-turning-to-ai-in-classes | 2025-11-25
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