Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett discusses the Supreme Court case that will evaluate parents' rights to opt out of classes where LGBTQ books are being used in the curriculum on'The Story.' President Donald Trump signed multiple Executive Orders relating to education Wednesday afternoon, with several tied to the theme of returning meritocracy back to the education system. The orders, seven in total, included actions to integrate artificial intelligence into K-12 school curricula, reforms to school discipline and accreditation guidelines, requirements related to the disclosure of foreign funding to schools and enhancements to the country's workforce development programs. Trump's slew of education-focused orders also included another directive demanding an end to DEI ideology in schools, specifically the use of "disparate impact theory," on top of his previous executive order from January ordering an end to DEI-like programming and ideology in K-12 schools. An Executive Order setting up a White House initiative supporting the efficiency and effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities was also signed by the president on Wednesday. President Donald Trump holds an executive order relating to education in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Education Secretary Linda McMahon watch.

In higher education, accreditation is a quality assurance process, where an institution demonstrates a commitment to delivering high quality programs and services to their students. For business schools nationally and internationally the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation is the gold standard. For a business school to receive and subsequently maintain accreditation, the school must undertake a rigorous, time consuming reporting and peer review process, to demonstrate alignment with the AACSB Standards. For this project we create a hybrid context retrieval augmented generation pipeline that can assist in the documentation alignment and reporting process necessary for accreditation. We implement both a vector database and knowledge graph, as knowledge stores containing both institutional data and AACSB Standard data. The output of the pipeline can be used by institution stakeholders to build their accreditation report, dually grounded by the context from the knowledge stores. To develop our knowledge graphs we utilized both a manual construction process as well as an LLM Augmented Knowledge Graph approach. We evaluated the pipeline using the RAGAs framework and observed optimal performance on answer relevancy and answer correctness metrics.

This research aims to take advantage of artificial intelligence techniques in producing students assessment that is compatible with the different academic accreditations of the same program. The possibility of using generative artificial intelligence technology was studied to produce an academic accreditation compliant test the National Center for Academic Accreditation of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. A novel method was introduced to map the verbs used to create the questions introduced in the tests. The method allows a possibility of using the generative artificial intelligence technology to produce and check the validity of questions that measure educational outcomes. A questionnaire was distributed to ensure that the use of generative artificial intelligence to create exam questions is acceptable by the faculty members, as well as to ask about the acceptance of assistance in validating questions submitted by faculty members and amending them in accordance with academic accreditations. The questionnaire was distributed to faculty members of different majors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabias universities. one hundred twenty responses obtained with eight five percentile approval percentage for generate complete exam questions by generative artificial intelligence . Whereas ninety eight percentage was the approval percentage for editing and improving already existed questions.

February may technically be the shortest month but it certainly can feel long… I think I sensed a slight brightening in the morning light but I may have been mistaken… Maybe time for a bit of distraction with a wrap up of data science developments in the last month. Don't miss out on more ChatGPT fun and games in the middle section! Following is the March edition of our Royal Statistical Society Data Science and AI Section newsletter. Hopefully some interesting topics and titbits to feed your data science curiosity. If you like these, do please send on to your friends- we are looking to build a strong community of data science practitioners.

This Digital Health News industry roundup includes an IT award for the Department of Health and Social Care and Netcompany for the NHS Covid Pass, accreditation for an AI device and a virtual falls service keeping care home residents out of hospital. Digital health and AI company Empatica has received clearance of its Empatica Health Monitoring Platform by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The platform has been cleared for continuous data collection to monitor blood oxygen saturation during rest, peripheral skin temperature, activity associated with movement during sleep and electrodermal activity. Each digital biomarker is based on trained algorithms that analyse sensor data in one-minute intervals. Dr. Marisa Cruz, chief medical officer of Empatica, said: "This clearance represents a significant step forward for our scientific community. Patients, healthcare providers, and researchers deserve digital health products that are accurate, validated in diverse populations, and intuitive to use. "We are proud to have built a solution that accomplishes these goals, offering a high-quality and reliable digital health tool to scientists working to improve patient outcomes through research and clinical care." The company has also announced the closing of its Series B financing. The investment was led by Sanofi Venture and RA Capital Management with participation by Black Opal Ventures. Empatica intends to use the financing to expand its suite of digital biomarkers for use in both patient care and in clinical trials as digital endpoints. Cris De Luca, partner at Sanofi Ventures and newly-appointed board member at Empatica, said: "By gaining higher resolution into disease symptomology through novel digital measures and digital biomarkers in clinical and real-world settings, Empatica is unlocking the possibilities of early disease detection, enhanced treatment decisions, and improving quality of life for patients around the world." International IT services company, Netcompany, alongside the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) have won the Emerging Technology of the Year award in the Technology Excellence category of the 2022 UK IT Industry Awards. The two companies were recognised for their work on the NHS Covid Pass, which also saw them receive a highly commended in the Best Healthcare IT Project of the Year 2022. The win reflects the vital role that the NHS Covid Pass has played in the safe reopening of the country. It allows users to shared their Covid-19 status or vaccination status when travelling internationally. Richard Davies, UK country managing partner at Netcompany, said: "This award recognises our talented teams, expertise, and dedication towards creating technology solutions that help to improve the everyday lives of citizens.

European Leadership University (ELU) has received it educational license in 2015 with the official decree and approval by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. We have received Institutional accreditation in 2016 and achieved full programme accreditation in 2017 by the Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council, Nicosia which is a member of The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), the umbrella organisation for recognised government accreditation agencies in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador will be revoked and Iranian diplomatic staff in Kyiv reduced as a result of Russian forces using Iranian drones to attack Ukraine. Ukrainian forces had shot down a total of eight Iranian-made drones in the conflict so far, Zelenskyy said in a late-night video address on Friday. "Today the Russian army used Iranian drones for its attacks on Dnipropetrovsk region and Odesa. I instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strongly react to this fact," Zelenskyy said in his address. "Six of these Iranian drones were downed by our air defences of the East and South commands. One more was brought to ground by air defences of the Navy…. And just now I am being told about the downing by air defences of the South command of another strike Iranian drone," he said.

Dr. Sachin R Sakhare is working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering of Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. He has 26 Years of experience in engineering education. He is recognised as PhD guide by Savitribai Phule Pune University and currently guiding 7 PhD scholars. He is a life member of CSI, ISTE and IAEngg. He has Published 39 research communications in national, international journals and conferences, with around 248 citations and H-index 6.

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the nation's most prominent accreditor of programs in science, technology, and engineering, according to an announcement, said that Northern Kentucky University's bachelor's degree in data science will be the first of only two data science programs in the U.S. to earn the organization's accreditation. As data science has emerged as an important field over the last decade, ABET announced that it would be creating accreditation standards for it, according to the organization. NKU was selected in 2020 to be one of only two universities to undergo the inaugural accreditation process. NKU's data science program was only the third such bachelor's program in the U.S. when it launched in 2013. The program focuses on big-data analytics and machine learning, combining a background in computer science and statistics with real-world capstone projects.

On this Master of Science degree in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), you will develop advanced skills across complex and core topics in service, industrial and social robotics. You will study the latest cutting-edge advancements in the field – such as machine learning techniques, robotics vision & speech, and 3D modelling. You will then apply your knowledge to the design and development of sophisticated autonomous intelligent apps, 3D designs and physical robotics systems. You will also develop strong managerial and leadership skills, and a global appreciation of the economic, legal, social, ethical and environmental context of robotics. In addition, there are opportunities for short-term mobility trips to visit global industry leaders and short industrial or academic internship placements, which can often prove very useful in securing future employment in the UK and globally.