Britain’s higher education regulator warns that widespread AI use is making it difficult to assess students’ learning reliably, threatening the credibility of university degrees. The Office for Students (OfS) says students can use AI in ways that cannot be reliably detected and that coursework, dissertations, and other assessment types are becoming harder to mark effectively.

Across coverage, outlets describe calls for universities in England to return to more traditional assessment approaches. The Guardian and BBC both emphasise the near-impossibility of reliably assessing coursework under current conditions, citing concerns that AI makes student submissions harder to distinguish from legitimate work. The Daily Mail frames this as lecturers saying assessments are becoming “unfit for purpose,” while India Today highlights the regulator’s warning about a “generational risk” to higher education.

The Conversation adds broader context, describing AI-driven assessment challenges as a “wicked problem” and noting that institutions do not have all the answers for how to ensure degrees reflect students’ learning rather than their AI use.