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What happens when a project team gets a new member who never sleeps, never complains, and can draft a paragraph in seconds? Does generative AI make collaboration smoother—or quietly replace some of the collaboration itself? Who is really doing the thinking when AI produces the first draft? And what happens to learning when students no longer need to argue over every sentence? In their new study, Anna Korchak, Jamie Costley, and Mik Fanguy delve into this tapestry of questions by looking not at students working with AI alone, but at what happens when AI enters the messy, negotiated world of collaborative academic writing.

How can a fast-growing economy provide enough employment opportunities for its growing working-age population? This question lies at the heart of India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story, a new book by Jajati Keshari Parida and Santosh Mehrotra. Jajati Parida is a Professor of Economics at the University of Hyderabad and Santosh Mehrotra is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for Labour Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also a Visiting Lead Fellow at the HSE Institute of Education, and a member of the CERE Observatory Expert Board.

What different routes do students take when moving from vocational education to higher education? And how might students’ backgrounds and the institutions they attend shape these pathways? These questions provide a starting point for a new study by Elizaveta Korotkikh, Research Assistant at the Centre for Vocational Education and Skills Development, and Vera Maltseva, Director of the Centre.