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CiCi FOR USE BY SECONDARY SCHOOLS

This short brochure explains how CiCi can be helpful to students and careers teachers in secondary schools and how the chatbot also helps schools to achieve 4 of the 8 gatsby benchmarks. Click on the image above to open the brochure

CiCi FOR UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES AND HEI’s

Find out more about how CiCi is useful to both students and careers advisers in universities, colleges, and higher education institutions with an example of how this is being developed for the University of Arden. Click on the image above to open the brochure

CiCi FOR TRAINING PROVIDERS

Find out how CiCi can be used to point individuals to the training courses to suit them and how the chatbot can be best used by training providers and colleges. Click on the image above to download and open the brochure

HOW CAN CiCi BE USED BY CAREERS ADVISERS AND EMPLOYABILITY PROVIDERS

CiCi is a chatbot that supports personalised career exploration for adults andyoung people, giving them access to current and relevant careers information in asingle place. Lighten the workload of career advisors and improve the quality oftime spent supporting your clients by providing 24/7 impartial and confidentialcareers information and advice. Click on the image above to…
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The rise of AI could be a great British story. But lets do it the right way.

Stephanie Hare – Sun 13 Feb 2022 08.00 GMT Guardian An interesting article here from Dr. Stephanie Hare via the Guardian. Stephanie talks about exciting economical and industrial developments for the UK and how these could be beneficial to the labour market if developed ethically. This exciting industrial advance will bring new jobs – especially…
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The Leaps and Bounds of CiCi – Thanks to our new software developer Andy Coates

We would like to introduce a new member to our CiCi team – Andy Coates, Software Developer and Programmer. Following Andy’s introduction to the project, the progress we have made in recent months has been incredible. Thus, we would like to dedicate this post to Andy as an official welcome to the team. Andy is…
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The BOT working on careers information, advice and guidance with human experts

In the October issue of Careers Matters , the Careers Development Institiute (CDI) monthly magazine for the Career Develpment Sector, an article has been published, written by Deirdre Hughes. The article highlights progress made in the development of chatbots and in particular a bot developed specifically for careers. As the title above suggests this chatbot ‘CiCi’ is…
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English schools turn to AI to help students catch up after Covid

Platforms that assess pupils and guide teachers on how to improve lesson plans are becoming mainstream, according to Madhumita Murgia in London AUGUST 14 2021 SOURCE: Financial Times (FT) Keywords – Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Schools; Covid; Students An unusual teaching assistant is waiting for the students of St John’s primary school, in Wigan, north-west…
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Advocates of Artificial Intelligence as Behaviourists

Paul Austin Murphy has written a paper “Advocates of Artificial Intelligence as Behaviourists” in which he discusses behaviourism in AI and the theory that “if a computer (or robot) behaved as if it had intelligence (or had a mind), then, by definition, it must actually be intelligent (or have a mind).” Computers cab perform simple…
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From A-levels to pensions, algorithms make easy targets – but they aren’t to blame

Jonathan Everett; Guardian Tue 17 Aug 2021 09.00 BST Poor policy outcomes are not the responsibility of ‘mutant maths’, but of choices made by people in power ‘The government’s occasionally misleading use of modelling – such as when it mispresented Covid projections while making the case for a second lockdown in October last year –…
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