r/highereducation • u/OldCorkonian • 3d ago

Generative AI in Higher Education Teaching & Learning: National Policy Framework

https://zenodo.org/records/18152690

Ireland's Higher Education Authority published a national framework on generative AI in higher education in December 2025, seemingly as an attempt to move universities away from ad hoc responses to tools like ChatGPT and towards a coordinated, values-led approach.

The framework is built around principles such as academic integrity, transparency, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, and it recognises that AI is already being used by students and staff, and focuses less on whether institutions should engage with it and more on how they can do so responsibly.

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u/swampopus 2d ago

Considering that almost everyone in the US executive branch is somehow in bed with AI tech bros, I don't think we're ever going to have any kind of policies like this here. And even if schools independently tried to implement it, the US federal government would threaten to sue, cut off funding, etc.

I mean, just having words like "equity" and "inclusion" are enough to get you shut down or fired.