UK's OfS demands universities restore AI-free assessments and threatens sanctions
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On November 11, 2026, England's higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), said the spread of generative AI has made fairly grading student work nearly impossible. The agency urged universities to restore traditional assessment formats such as exams and in-person presentations, warning that institutions failing to establish reliable forms of assessment could face sanctions. This shows UK regulators are trying to respond to AI's disruption of academic assessment by pressuring universities to adjust their evaluation methods; no list of specific institutions facing sanctions or details of sanction measures has been released yet.
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The Office for Students, England's higher education regulator, said AI has made fairly grading student work nearly impossible, urged universities to return to traditional exams and in-person presentations, and warned it could sanction institutions that fail to establish reliable assessment formats.
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