Welcome to November 2025’s Spotlight on AI in Education bulletin. With how fast things are moving, this will help you cut through the noise and catch what’s important. The bulletin highlights on-the-ground practice, institutional perspectives and trends in generative AI use across the sector and beyond. We hope you find this useful. If you have anything you’d like to contribute or see in this bulletin, please email ee@sussex.ac.uk .

On-the-ground at Sussex

EVENT: The Teaching with AI Community of Practice will meet for the fourth time on Monday 1^st December 2025 1-3pm.  We’ll meet in the Library Teaching Room which is a different room to previous meetings but still on the ground floor of the Library.

Tell me more: As revealed in the October bulletin, we will share the confirmed Sussex Principles for AI in Education, (published here) and will focus our attention on Principle 4: Academic Integrity and Student Experience.  We will take a playful look at the updates to tools like Grammarly and how these could impact integrity, and hear from colleagues about AI use across the university and beyond.

Thank you to everyone who has signed up already – we’re looking forward to seeing you.

If you haven’t already, then Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/ALJiCG97Us (so we know how many mince pies to buy!)

Join the Teams area for the AI Community of Practice here: www.tinyurl.com/sussex-ai-cop 

Read more about our previous AI CoPs on the blog.

Whole-Institution News at Sussex

Don’t miss the chance to contribute to research.

Thanks to Kate Howland, Professor of Interaction Design, for sharing in the AI Teams channel that Sussex will host a visiting researcher from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in December.  Dr Trevor Nesbit will be with us for two weeks from Monday 8^th December and is keen to interview people from across disciplines about how their perspectives and use of GenAI have evolved over the last two years.

The interviews typically take 30-40 minutes, but some have been known to go longer.

For more information, including how to take part, see Kate’s post in the Teams channel here: Kate Howland: Visiting researcher – Call for Interview Participants Use of Generat… | Teaching and Learning with AI Community of Practice > Discussion | Microsoft Teams

Across the Sector

This month we’re sharing two resources regarding Artificial Intelligence and Graduate Employability.

WONKHE to host Digital and AI skills for the graduate workforce, Thursday 4 December, 11.00am-12.00pm.

 Wonkhe editor Debbie McVitty and Adobe Education’s Mark Andrews will host this edition of Education Espresso which promises to “dive into the practices and pedagogies that prepare students to translate their AI knowledge into employment and evidence their skills to future employers in the graduate job market”.

Sign up (and scroll down to review previous sessions) here: https://wonkhe.com/education-espresso-2/

Campus talks: why teaching with artificial intelligence is ‘like a giant field experiment’ (Podcast from Times Higher Education).

THE Award-winning educationalist Jenny Moffett, senior lecturer in the Health Professions Education Centre at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin, talks about using AI so it supports learning rather than risks deskilling students as they prepare for careers in medicine.

Listen here: Campus talks: why teaching with artificial intelligence is ‘like a giant field experiment’ | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect

Further Afield

Google Launched Gemini 3 on 18^th November.  Read the press release from CEO Sundar Pichai here Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google and an interesting interview with Pichai here Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has ‘elements of irrationality’ – BBC News.

Final Remarks

• Join the Teaching and Learning with GenAI Community. If you’d like to join the community and be first to hear about events. Get in touch with us and we can add you to the list and dedicated MS Teams community.  www.tinyurl.com/sussex-ai-cop 
• Disclaimer on any tools not supported at Sussex. Please do not share Sussex, student, colleague, sensitive or personal data via these platforms. Not being supported means they have not passed stringent Data Protection assessments and could put you at breach of policy and legislation. For a list of supported platforms for teaching and learning please visit the Educational Enhancement website.

This was a Spotlight on AI in Education update from Educational Enhancement.