ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & HIGHER EDUCATION The Empty Classroom When students outsource learning to AI and companies cut the engineers who know better, both ends of the talent pipeline fray at once. India is not watching from a safe distance. Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan At the University of California, Berkeley, something unremarkable happened in spring 2026: a professor held office hours. The unremarkable part was that nobody came. Dan Garcia, who teaches CS 10, a broad introductory computing course popularly called “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” found his calendar conspicuously clear at the very moment his gradebook became conspicuously alarming. Of the students who sat CS 10’s final examination, 35.3% received an F—five times the historical norm of roughly 7%. Two other courses in Berkeley’s elite Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department suffered similarly: 10.6% of CS 61A students failed, and 16.8% of those in EECS 127, an upper-division optimi...
Spies in the Classroom: How Universities Are Training the Next Generation of Intelligence Officers Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan From the Paris suburbs to the banks of the Thames, a quiet revolution is reshaping how democratic nations develop their intelligence professionals. The Campus That Trains Spies On a grey morning on the outskirts of Paris, a university professor takes attendance. It is, by most appearances, an ordinary ritual — except that several names on his list are almost certainly false. Professor Xavier Crettiez, a researcher specialising in jihadism at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, has grown accustomed to the uncertainty. "I rarely know the intelligence agents' backgrounds when they are sent on the course," he says, "and I doubt the names I'm given are genuine anyway." Welcome to France's so-called 'School for Spies': the Diplôme sur le Renseignement et les Menaces Globales — the Diploma on Intelligence and Global Threat...