Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah has confirmed his availability for the upcoming Asia Cup 2025, scheduled to begin in September in the UAE.
According to the Indian media reports, Bumrah informed the selectors of his readiness a few days ago. This comes shortly after Suryakumar Yadav cleared his fitness test in Bengaluru.
The Indian selection committee is set to meet on August 19 in Mumbai to finalise the 15-member squad for the T20 tournament.
“In a significant boost for Team India, star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has made himself available for the 2025 Asia Cup,” a BCCI source confirmed.
To manage his workload, the right-arm pacer was rested from the fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at The Oval.
He played in the first, third, and fourth Tests, while being rested for the second Test at Edgbaston, which India won. Across the series, Bumrah bowled 119.4 overs and claimed two five-wicket hauls.
With the Asia Cup in the T20 format, Bumrah won’t need to bowl long spells, allowing the management to handle his playing time carefully.
He will also have a break of nearly 40 days between his last Test in England and the start of the tournament. His last T20I appearance was in the 2024 T20 World Cup final against South Africa in Bridgetown, where he took 2 for 18 in India’s seven-run win.
The report also mentioned that the Suryakumar Yadav-led side will travel to the UAE early for the Asia Cup.
While the BCCI proposed a short camp in Bengaluru, the team opted for early travel to help players acclimate to local conditions.
It is pertinent to mention that India, placed in Group A, will begin their campaign against hosts UAE on September 10, face arch-rivals Pakistan on September 14, and conclude the group stage against Oman on September 19.
Coline Aguirre first began to imagine her future during a high school exchange program in Japan a decade ago.
Aguirre, who was born in Paris but moved around a lot as a child, spent a year studying in Kanagawa, a prefecture about 40 miles outside Tokyo.
During a visit to her host family’s grandparents in the countryside, she discovered that they lived in a traditional Japanese house built in the ’70s, with elegant wooden beams and beautiful tatami rooms.
“That was the first time I slept in a tatami room. Before that, I had only been in really modern city houses in Japan,” Aguirre told Business Insider. “I fell in love, and in that moment, I knew I wanted to own a traditional house in Japan.”
Aguirre says she’s been drawn to traditional Japanese houses ever since staying in one during her high school exchange.
Coline Aguirre.
Fast-forward to 2021: Aguirre was back in France and working as a freelance photographer. Over the years, she and her mother had nurtured a shared hobby of scrolling through real-estate websites and window-shopping for homes.
“At the time, I was discovering the real estate market in Japan and noticing the really low prices,” Aguirre said.
In France, a countryside home could easily set her back by 200,000 euros. In contrast, some houses in rural Japan can go for as low as $500.
The contrast was striking, and it got her thinking about the possibilities.
“In France, if I wanted to buy something new with the money I had then, it would be a car or a garage. I don’t want to live in a car or in a garage,” she said.
‘A hundred years old, minimum’
Thus started her hunt for a “kominka,” or a farmhouse, in the Japanese countryside.
Aguirre was looking for a large property, with enough room for a photo studio. She also wanted an old house because she felt that they were built with materials meant to last.
“My criteria was like, a hundred years old, minimum,” Aguirre added.
When she chanced upon the listing for a 3,200-square-foot property in Uda, a small town about 50 miles south of Kyoto, she knew she had found the one.
Aguirre says she was always drawn to traditional Japanese houses after staying in one during high school.
Coline Aguirre.
“It matched all my expectations. It was huge, maybe a bit too huge, but it had an inner garden, two bathrooms, two kitchens, and a lot of bedrooms,” Aguirre said.
It was also a 15-minute drive to the train station, and about an hour and a half from the ocean.
With the help of a consultant on a real-estate portal — who sent her a 20-minute video tour of the listing — Aguirre bought the two-story house remotely,without seeing it in person.
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Aguirre says she paid about 4.9 million Japanese yen for the property in 2022, and at the age of 24, achieved her dream of buying a traditional house in the Japanese countryside.
She bought the house without seeing it in person.
Coline Aguirre.
Her husband, who is in the French Army, knew this was her plan soon after they first got together.
“From the moment we started dating eight years ago, I already told him I’m going to be a house owner in Japan one day. And it eventually happened,” Aguirre said.
She officially moved to Japan alone later that year. “I had no plan. I was just trusting the universe,” Aguirre, now 27, said.
Her parents were also supportive of her move. It helped that they were already familiar with Japan: Her father had spent a year working in Tokyo, and her mother had been to the country multiple times on vacation.
Growing up, she was used to her parents buying and fixing up old houses in France.
“I had no perception of what was scary or not,” Aguirre said. “We’ve been doing that so many times, it just felt normal for me to buy a house.”
Restoring the house
Aguirre’s house sits on a street where the old market used to be.
The street reminds her of Kyoto, with its shops and old houses. “The post office is in front of me, while there’s a bank at the end of the road,” she said.
Aguirre says she taught herself how to DIY, in addition to hiring contractors.
Coline Aguirre.
When her house was first built in the 1920s, the front section facing the street served as a soy sauce shop. Before she bought it, the previous owners had used it as a summer home whenever they visited from the city during the holidays.
In terms of restoring the property, Aguirre, who now runs a real-estate consultancy, says she has tried to keep as much of the original structure as possible.
The main thing she’s changed so far is getting rid of the septic tank and connecting the property to the public sewage system.
“I haven’t really destroyed so many things besides everything that was added during the ’70s,” she said.
The previous owners had used the property as a summer home whenever they visited from the city during the holidays.
Coline Aguirre.
There’s plenty left to do, including remodeling the kitchen and removing the fake ceilings on the second floor. Considering the size of the property, it’s been a slow process.
“I try to do all the DIY I possibly can,” Aguiree said.
Local contractors were often more accustomed to working on newer homes with modern materials like plastic insulation, which wasn’t what she envisioned for her own space.
“I started to learn a lot of DIY stuff, like making tiles and waterproofing the shower. But it’s fun. I really enjoy it and I like power tools a lot,” Aguirre said, adding that she dived into online tutorials, read books, and got advice from her father.
These days, between managing her business and working on the house, Aguirre also runs an online boutique selling vintage kimonos and accessories. On the side, she offers kimono photography sessions, too.
She also runs a little boutique online selling vintage kimonos and offers kimono photography sessions.
Coline Aguirre.
Living the dream
Aguirre is part of a growing wave of foreigners who are relocating to Japan.
The number of foreign residents in Japan reached a record high of 3,768,977 at the end of 2024 — an increase of 10.5% from the previous year, per data from the country’s Immigration Services Agency.
Four Americans who spoke to BI in 2023 listed Japan’s safety standards and relative affordability as reasons for their move. Others told BI they were drawn to the idea of renovating one of the country’s 8 million abandoned homes.
Though much of the experience has been rewarding, Aguirre says the hardest part of her move was staying focused on her goals.
Even though she is in the countryside, Aguirre says meeting new people hasn’t been difficult.
Coline Aguirre.
“It is super challenging to own that kind of big house that needs constant attention, while also starting a business from zero in a new country with a new language,” she said.
She hopes to improve her Japanese language skills, but hasn’t found the time to take lessons.
“For now, my language classes are me talking to my neighbors,” Aguirre said.
Most of her neighbours are between 50 and 90 years old and have been living in the area for decades. Many of them once attended the local elementary school, which has since been transformed into a maple park.
That said, meeting new people hasn’t been difficult. A fairly large group of foreigners — mostly from the US and the UK — are living in Uda, she said.
“When you go grocery shopping and you see someone else who is a foreigner, you basically go and talk to them because it’s so rare,” Aguirre said.
Over the years, she’s been introduced to new people, sometimes even on the street.
Aguirre lives in her house in Japan full-time, and her husband comes to visit her whenever he can. Regarding what is often a long-distance relationship, Aguirre said,“It’s challenging, but I mean, he said yes eight years ago.”
Looking back on her journey, Aguirre says it feels like she’s only begun to scratch the surface.
“Three years is just a trial,” she said. Sometimes, she added, you’ll need to wait for the thrill of the move to die down before you know if it’s really for you.
That said, Aguire knows she made the right choice. She hopes to continue growing her real estate business, now a team of three, and eventually connect traditional Japanese homes with buyers seeking homes and spaces for their creative projects.
“It still feels like a dream,” Aguirre said. “I just added more layers to my dream.”
Do you have a story to share about building your dream home in Asia? Contact this reporter at agoh@businessinsider.com.
WESTFIELD, Ind. – Sebastian Munoz and Torque GC swept the individual and team titles at LIV Golf Indianapolis, but there were plenty of other news, notes and stats from the final round at Chatham Hills.
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LIV GOLF INDIANAPOLIS ROUND 3 NOTES
TOP 3
Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm, Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann and Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau finished 1-2-3, respectively, in the final season-long standings. Each will earn a bonus for finishing in the top three. It’s the second consecutive year for Rahm and Niemann to finish 1-2, while DeChambeau finishes in the top 3 for the first time in his LIV Golf career.
LOCK ZONE
HyFlyers GC Captain Phil Mickelson, an original LIV Golf member, finished in the Lock Zone (top 24 in points) for the first time in his LIV Golf career. Mickelson finished 24th in points; the top 24 are guaranteed spots for next season.
Another LIV Golf captain, RangeGoats GC’s Bubba Watson, also finished in the Lock Zone for the first time at 11th. Watson tied for 8th in Indianapolis, his fourth top-10 finish in his last eight starts.
Other first-time Lock Zone finishers include: young Fireballs GC star David Puig (10th), 4Aces GC’s Thomas Pieters (19th) and first-year-LIV Golf player Tom McKibbin (20th) of Legion XIII.
RELEGATED PLAYERS
Majesticks Co-Captain Henrik Stenson (49th in points) was one of five team players relegated after finishing in the Drop Zone (49th and below) in the season-long points standings. The other relegated players are HyFlyers GC’s Andy Ogletree (50), Torque GC’s Mito Pereira (51), Iron Heads GC’s Yubin Jang (53) and Cleeks Golf Club’s Frederik Kjettrup (T55). Jang and Kjettrup were in their first year in the league.
In addition, wild-card player Anthony Kim (T55) also was relegated.
Stenson and his fellow co-captain Ian Poulter battled for most of the day to avoid relegation, with each player moving in and out of the projected Drop Zone. Poulter closed with a flourish, with four consecutive birdies late in his round to shoot 67 and finish T17, his second top-20 this season. Stenson bogeyed three of his first six holes en route to a 1-over 72 to tie for 22nd.
In the end, the difference between Poulter and Stenson in points was 0.38 – essentially a one-shot difference.
PEREIRA AFTER RELEGATION
Despite the disappointment of relegation, Torque GC’s Mito Pereira was happy to end the regular season with a team title, and he’ll get another chance to win the LIV Golf Team Championship next week in Michigan.
“I’m really happy to get this win,” he said after shooting 8 under to finish T36. “Everybody was working for it, and to do it in the last tournament is just a really good feeling.”
SEEDS SET FOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII enter next week’s Michigan Team Championship as the top seed on the strength of their four tournament wins and four other podium finishes. Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC are the No. 2 seed and Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC are No. 3. The top seeds entering Friday’s Quarterfinals will get to select their opponent.
The remainder of the seeds are as follows: 4) Torque GC; 5) 4Aces GC; 6) Ripper GC; 7) Stinger GC; 8) Smash GC; 9) RangeGoats GC; 10) HyFlyers GC; 11) Cleeks GC; 12) Majesticks GC; and 13) Iron Heads GC.
PLAY-IN OPPONENTS SET
The last two seeds in the standings – Majesticks and Iron Heads – will participate in a play-in match on Wednesday, with all players on both teams participating. Two singles and one foursomes (alternate-shot) match will take place, with the team winning at least two of those matches advancing to Friday’s Quarterfinals. The losing team will see its season end.
17TH TROPHY SWEEP
The sweep of both the tournament individual and team trophies by Torque GC on Sunday is the 17th time in LIV Golf history that a team has swept both trophies at a single tournament. It’s the fifth time this season, and the second consecutive week, with Stinger GC and Dean Burmester sweeping the trophies in Chicago.
RECORD LOW
Torque GC’s winning score of 64 under shatters the previous low score for a winning LIV Golf team, which was 53 under initially set by Ripper GC at 2024 Adelaide (Stinger GC also shot that score but lost in a playoff) and Smash GC later in the season at Greenbrier.
REGULAR-SEASON STAT LEADERS
With the regular season now complete, here are the leaders in key statistical categories for the entire season:
Driving accuracy – Henrik Stenson 72.34%
Driving distance – Joaquin Niemann, 330.7 yards average
Greens in regulation – Jon Rahm, 74.50%
Scrambling – Bryson DeChambeau, 66.97%
Putting average – Caleb Surratt, Charl Schwartzel, Cameron Smith, 1.54
Most birdies – Jon Rahm, 194
Most eagles – Bubba Watson, 12
RECORD-SCORING ROUND
Sunday’s field average of 66.537 was 4.463 strokes under par, making it the lowest-scoring round in LIV Golf history. Each of the previous two rounds had set the same record – 68.519 in Friday’s first round, then 68.204 in Saturday’s second round.
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Ratatan has been given a new Early Access Date for September, as the game still has a totally free demo for you to play on Steam
Article Summary
Ratatan’s Early Access release date for Steam is officially set for September after a short delay.
The game blends rhythmic combat and roguelike elements from the minds behind Patapon and Tokyo Virtual Theory.
Players command Ratatan and their Cobun army using magical instruments to attack, defend, and explore.
New power-ups, multiplayer mini-games, and richer graphics deliver fresh experiences with each session.
Indie game developer Tokyo Virtual Theory and publisher Game Source Entertainment confirmed the official Early Access release date for Ratatan. Originally, this was supposed to take place back in July, but it looks like the team decided to push that back and give themselves a couple of extra months to work on the title. Now we know the EA date for Steam will take place on September 19, 2025. Those of you who want to try the game out ahead of time can still play a free demo of the title on Steam right now, which will probably stay up until the new version arrives.
Credit: Game Source Entertainment
Ratatan
Ratatan is a rhythmic roguelike action game developed in collaboration between Hiroyuki Kotani, the producer of the renowned series Patapon, released on PSP in 2007, and Tokyo Virtual Theory (TVT). Players act as the Ratatan, using magical instruments to deliver different commands to the armies of Cobun to attack the enemies. In addition to attack and defense rhythmic sequences, there are also actions that allow the Ratatan to move freely, with unique skills for each character, further deepening the musicality of the game. Players will enter “fever mode” when they accurately follow the rhythm sequences. In fever mode, the background music changes interactively, and characters perform various actions.
Ratatan also incorporates the popular Roguelike system. In each adventure, Ratatan and its Cobun randomly receive different power-ups and rewards in every battle. Players will experience different adventures each time, with various power-ups bringing various diverse effects and increasing gameplay possibilities. With Nelnal as the game illustrator and character designer, Ratatan features richer game graphics and more characters than before. It has also added a lot of new content, including a brand-new system and mini-games for multiplayer. It will utilize TVT’s own “Theory Engine” to provide a fast and stable environment for online multiplayer.
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Get ready to get your hands dirty in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet with a Ground-type mass outbreak event from Sunday, August 17, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. PDT to Sunday, August 31, 2025, at 4:59 p.m. PDT. During this time, mass outbreaks of Paldean Wooper, Mudbray, and Drilbur will be digging up trouble throughout various locations. Shiny Pokémon are more likely to appear in these special mass outbreaks, so stay grounded and stock up on Poké Balls!
Look for the following Pokémon in these locations:
Mass outbreaks are a phenomenon in which many of the same species of Pokémon appear in one location. To participate in mass outbreak events, you will need to download the latest Poké Portal News and install the latest update data for your game.
Prepare to stand your ground against a powerful Legendary Pokémon, Trainers! Shiny Ting-Lu is appearing in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet 5-star Tera Raid Battles, the third in a series of Tera Raid Battle events featuring Shiny treasures of ruin. This Ruinous Pokémon has Ground as its Tera Type and will appear at Tera Raid crystals from Monday, 18 August 2025, at 00:00 UTC to Sunday, 31 August 2025, at 23:59 UTC.
Unlike most Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet Tera Raid Battles, Shiny Ting-Lu cannot be caught upon being defeated. Instead, participating players must collectively achieve one million total victories before the conclusion of Ting-Lu’s event period for the opportunity to receive it through the Mystery Gift feature.
If the total number of player victories against Shiny Ting-Lu meets or exceeds one million by Sunday, 31 August 2025, at 23:59 UTC, Shiny Ting-Lu will subsequently be available to claim via Mystery Gift from Friday, 5 September 2025, at 00:00 UTC to Tuesday, 30 September 2025, at 23:59 UTC.
The final total of player victories against this Pokémon is scheduled to be announced at approximately 00:00 UTC on the Friday following the conclusion of this Tera Raid Battle event.
Launch your Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet game.
Select Poké Portal on the X menu.
Select Mystery Gift, then select Get via Internet to connect to the internet.
Choose the gift you want to receive.
Watch as the gift arrives in your game.
Be sure to save your game.
For every one hundred thousand player victories collectively exceeding one million against this Pokémon, players can also receive a Tera Shard Set containing 40 Tera Shards alongside the Shiny Pokémon Mystery Gift distribution. Players can receive up to 10 sets total from this event.
To challenge Shiny Ting-Lu, Trainers will need to either complete the main story or join 5-star Tera Raid Battles hosted by other Trainers in multiplayer. Whenever you see a sparkling pillar of light shining from a Tera Raid crystal, you can walk up to the crystal and interact with it to start a Tera Raid Battle with a Tera Pokémon.
To find the featured Tera Pokémon, you’ll also need to have downloaded the latest Poké Portal News. To do so, follow these steps:
Select Poké Portal in the X menu.
Select Mystery Gift.
Select Check Poké Portal News.
Be warned: Shiny Ting-Lu is certain to put up a tough fight. If you’re looking for some tips on how to defeat this powerful Pokémon, as well as the methods to unlock Tera Raid Battles in your game, head on over to our Tera Raid Battle Tips article. Learn the ins and outs of Tera Raid Battles in the Paldea region so that you never miss a chance to catch a powerful Pokémon or earn handsome rewards.
Work together with Trainers around the world to challenge Shiny Ting-Lu and welcome it as your ally!
Since liquified natural gas (LNG) exports started in Queensland ten years ago, eastern Australia’s domestic gas consumption has fallen by about 32%, while prices tripled. The largest drops in consumption were observed in the electricity and industrial sectors, which are typically more price-sensitive. While many factors influenced those declines, high gas prices are often cited as a factor when heavy gas users have ceased operation.
Although its LNG exports are much larger than Queensland’s, Western Australia (WA) has been mostly sheltered from these trends thanks to a domestic reservation policy. However, the market is facing growing issues, with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) forecasting large shortfalls in WA from as early as 2028. Prices have also increased materially since 2021, with average contract prices reaching about $7 per gigajoule (GJ) in 2024, compared with historical levels of around $3-5/GJ.
For eastern Australia, AEMO forecasts gas shortages from 2028, increasing sharply in the early 2030s as production from Victoria’s gas fields declines.
These issues can be surprising for a country that is one of the world’s largest LNG exporters. A lot of the gas market issues can be associated with the dominance of LNG exports over domestic gas use: Australia exports about 80% of the gas it produces. This has led to a linkage between domestic and international prices. In addition, there is a lack of competition in the eastern market, where a small group of LNG exporters effectively control 90% of 2P [proven and probable] gas reserves.
Finally, exporters have strong incentives to maximise their exports, and there are currently no mechanisms to ensure this doesn’t hurt domestic users. IEEFA has found LNG export facilities have maintained high levels of utilisation even in periods of relatively low international prices, with high volumes of spot sales (discretionary sales beyond contracted volumes) complementing long-term contracts. Some projects, like Santos’s GLNG project in Queensland, have even siphoned gas from the domestic market to fulfill their export commitments.
Redirecting gas from LNG exports could ease impending shortages
IEEFA has found that one of the best ways to address gas market tightness would be to redirect gas from LNG exports towards the domestic market. In the short term, there are more than enough spot sales to meet expected shortfalls. Spot sales made up about 25% of total exports in 2024, which is of a similar order of magnitude as Australia’s total domestic gas use, and multiple times the shortfalls expected on both sides of the country.
Expiring contracts present an opportunity to free up additional gas for larger longer-term forecast shortfalls, particularly in eastern Australia. The first contract to expire will be Santos’s GLNG contract with Kogas for nearly 200PJ (per annum) in 2031. This volume, combined with spot sales, would be more than enough to meet forecast shortfalls in the 2030s.
Redirecting gas from exports is likely to be a much faster, and lower-cost solution than developing new gas fields. Queensland gas is relatively low-cost, especially compared to new gas fields such as the Beetaloo, which would require billions in investment to bring the gas to the east coast.
Constraining LNG exports is unlikely to damage the energy security of our Asian consumers. Indeed, an unprecedented increase in LNG capacity in the coming years is expected to create an enormous supply glut in the late 2020s, which would last until at least 2040 according to the International Energy Agency. In addition, Japanese companies resell vast volumes of Australian LNG to other countries and could reduce their LNG purchases from Australia by a third without impacting Japan’s energy security.
This article was first published by Energy News Bulletin.
New mechanisms could ensure Australia’s energy security and reduce prices
The Australian government is currently reviewing what instruments are needed for securing domestic gas supply. In IEEFA’s opinion, a combination of mechanisms addressing long-term contracts and spot sales could help secure Australia’s energy security, decouple domestic and international prices, and maintain the flexibility required to adapt to changing market conditions.
We support the introduction of export licences for new long-term contracts and renewals. Licence decisions should be informed by the market outlook as well as producers’ past conduct and reserves availability to encourage good behaviour. This should for example deter producers from taking from the domestic market to meet export commitments. Queensland LNG exporter APLNG has come out in support of such a mechanism, to ensure “equitable domestic supply obligations” across all producers.
IEEFA’s view is that a licensing scheme for spot sales may not be sufficiently practical or flexible. It will be difficult to predict the exact volumes of gas the market will need in advance, given the influence of factors such as weather, power plant outages and many more. For spot sales, IEEFA believes an export tax, combined with the option of applying export caps when required, could help ensure sufficient supply.
An export tax would be simple to implement, incentivise domestic supply while maintaining investment incentives for gas producers, and have the additional benefit of decoupling domestic and international prices. Caps could be applied to spot sales to guarantee supply in exceptional circumstances, such as when an imminent shortage is forecast, when prices rise well above normal levels, or when exporters’ conduct creates unacceptable risks to domestic energy security.
Now is the time to reform Australia’s gas market settings, before shortages materialise and further industrial facilities close due to high gas prices.
Open a generative-AI tool, type “design a low-cost water filter for refugee camps” and, in seconds, you have concept drawings, a bill of materials and a rollout plan. Yesterday that required a term-long group project. Today, it’s the warm-up. The superpower now sitting on every student’s laptop is the ability to race from spark to prototype.
Trust me, I tried this and it works. The last time I coded anything, it was in BASIC in 1992. Last week, while I sat at a cafe, I had ChatGPT propose, design and implement a WordPress plug-in for my website, which allows students to map the syllabus against the time they have available to prepare towards their exam. From morning-shower-idea to implemented solution, in the time it took me to drink a flat white.
This changes every part of higher education, yet most curricula merely bolt a “How to prompt ChatGPT” slide on to last year’s lecture. Students, meanwhile, use the tech to vault over the skills we test them on. They no longer need weeks of coding workshops to build an app or statistics tutorials to run regressions – the machine does the legwork. Our value can no longer be the skills treadmill.
From skills to sparks
For centuries, universities have delivered scarce expertise. We stacked programmes like layer cakes: first theory, then practice, finally – if there was time – a sprinkle of creativity. Generative AI flips that order. Because routine skills are on tap, the bottleneck shifts upstream to ideation: spotting problems worth solving and framing them so the machine can help.
That demands divergent thinking, curiosity and ethical judgement – qualities our assessment regimes often squeeze out. We need to treat creativity as a core literacy, not a decorative extra. Don’t get me wrong, skills are not irrelevant – they just look different. Prompt craft, data stewardship and model critique replace manual citation and calculator drills. But they are means, not ends.
Studios, not lecture theatres
Ask three questions when redesigning a module: Where can AI shorten the distance from idea to outcome? How will students showcase originality, not output volume? When will they pause for ethical reflection?
When imagination is scarce, learning spaces must feel like design studios. Instead of teaching business law, droning on about director’s duties, I will get teams of students to build regulatory sandboxes for autonomous-vehicle start-ups. They will use legal-language models to draft compliance frameworks, then spend seminars debating what the bot missed and why it matters. Skills happen in the background – creativity sits centre stage.
By doing this, we can finally breach the disciplinary boundaries we long pretended to dislike. Creativity flourishes at the edges of disciplines. Pair literature students with computer scientists to prototype narrative-driven virtual reality; mix chemists with economists to imagine circular-economy start-ups. Set a shared brief, equip them with AI tools and a two-week sprint, then step aside.
The revelation is not how quickly they build things, but how naturally they trade perspectives once the translation burden sits with the machine. That habit of fluent collaboration is exactly what employers in an AI-saturated economy will prize – and universities, not tech platforms, are ideally placed to choreograph it. We preach interdisciplinarity, now is the time to do it.
Faculty as creative directors
Worried you may be left without a job? The bot will not replace the lecturer – it will replace the lecturer who only delivers content. Our new role is creative director: curating resources, modelling intellectual risk and orchestrating messy discussion.
Start by using the tools yourself. When students see you experiment – whether with an AI avatar explaining case law or a model drafting a syllabus – they learn that scholarship is exploratory, not finished. In trying to solve the challenge of student disengagement, I became an AI avatar designer. Creativity offered a pathway to solve my problem.
Traditional exams reward retention – coursework rewards hours invested. Both collapse when GenAI can write a passable essay in a minute. Instead, require an AI-assisted artefact plus a design log narrating the creative journey, missteps included. Mark the thinking, not the typing. To be honest with you, ChatGPT wrote most of this article, and it didn’t even take minutes.
A creativity contract
Here is my graduate attribute list for the AI era. My student will be a problem finder, who hunts for unmet needs; a prompt poet, who translates fuzzy ideas into machine-readable briefs; a critical friend, who interrogates model blind spots; a bridge builder, who links insights across disciplines. And finally, a moral navigator, who steers innovation toward the common good. Every attribute begins with a creative stance. That is the contract we must strike with applicants and employers: we will graduate people who can imagine what to do with limitless capability.
Potential students are already wondering what is the point of a master’s degree, when a bootcamp plus AI can let them launch a venture in six months. If universities cling to a skills-first identity, they will watch this exodus accelerate. Creativity, by contrast, ages well. The capacity to conceive, critique and reinvent will remain valuable long after today’s models are museum pieces.
Launch pads, not lecture notes
Let’s retire the phrase “future-proof skills”. There is no such thing. What we can future-proof is the human imagination. GenAI has handed us a supersonic airplane – ourjob is to help students pick destinations worthy of the ride.
So, ask your cohort next Monday: “What problem have you always wanted to solve?” Then build a classroom where turning that answer into a prototype is day-one homework. The creativity-first university starts there – before that aeroplane leaves without us.
Ioannis Glinavos is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Westminster.
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Your Weekly Work Horoscope for The Week of August 18, 2025. Discover your Weekly Work Horoscope for each zodiac sign here.
Aries
When someone asks if anyone has any ideas, you are the first person to open your mouth. You are taking a lot of initiative at the beginning of the week. And your boss is taking notice. Tuesday and Wednesday, all of your mental energy is focused on succeeding at work. Just be careful that you don’t use anyone unnecessarily. You don’t have to rule the world; you just have to achieve the goals you set out to achieve. And on Thursday and Friday, you’ll be achieving them. This weekend, take a break. Be a creature of habit. Be as unambitious as possible.
Taurus
A financial opportunity will present itself to you on Monday, but it won’t be worth the risk. You have enough going on right now to be distracted by wild schemes. On Tuesday and Wednesday, several already underway plans are going to achieve momentum, and you want to be on your toes. Best to keep your options open and stay agile so you can respond to anything. A minor setback (a power struggle) figures on Thursday or Friday, but don’t let it rile you. It’s just a weird clash of energy. Share your recent work frustrations with a friend or two over the weekend. You’ll feel better.
Gemini
Your righthand person is at your side on Monday. The two of you are ready to take the professional world by storm. Your success these days has everything to do with the strength of the relationships you’ve built. Midweek, you may start to feel insecure about the direction you’re heading in, but that’s only because, with so many other people in the picture, there are a ton of unknown variables. Try to nail down some of those variables. And, at the end of the week, try looking at everything from someone else’s perspective. You’ll be amazed by what you discover.
Cancer
You’re exhausted on Monday. All you want to do is crawl under your desk and take a three-month-long nap. Actually, a nap isn’t a half bad idea. Sneak out of the office and do something relaxing or restorative for yourself. Tuesday and Wednesday are full of challenges at work, and, again, your energy level is not going to be as high as you wish it would be, but on Thursday you’ll find ways to connect with coworkers and get pumped up about what you’re working on these days. On Friday, flexibility is essential. You’ll go into the weekend with more vim and vigor than you’ve had all week.
Leo
Maybe you can convince someone to send you on a business trip. You have a yen to travel on Monday, and if you could channel your personal desires into your work, you’d be smoking. Your personal life is at an all-time high too. At work, especially Tuesday and Wednesday, coworkers will notice an increase in your confidence and your capacity for leadership. It’s all related. There’s a chance that someone will misinterpret your boldness as arrogance at the end of the week, but don’t cling too tightly to your notions of what other people think. Spend the weekend in listening mode.
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Virgo
Sometimes you just have to take a risk. On Monday, it’s risk-taking season. Rather than projecting possible outcomes into the future, focus instead on your own composure. You have no idea what may come your way, and you’ll be so much better off if you’re poised and prepared for any eventuality. This posture will already start to pay off on Wednesday (someone will mention how fun it is to work with you) and by Thursday you’re going to have opened yourself up entirely. You’ll learn a ton. An eye-opening conversation on Friday will give way to an expansive weekend.
Libra
Communicate what’s going on and you’ll be in the clear. No matter how much control you’d like to have over this project, it’s always a better idea to keep your superiors informed. That way, if you decide to call in sick on Tuesday or Wednesday (which you might) someone else at the office will have a clue about what’s up. On Thursday, some new inspiration will strike you and you’ll charge into work with some fairly significant refinements to the general strategy, but, in general, this week is about being in close touch with your colleagues and turning your camaraderie into something of value.
Scorpio
Feeling caught up in the moment, you may impulsively sign off on something on Monday. Sometimes being impulsive is smart, because impulsiveness depends upon intuition, and your intuition is pretty good this week. And anyway, with a little willpower and determination you can make anything work. A disagreement among coworkers midweek will give you the opportunity to show off your fairly developed skills at diplomacy. If only you could apply those same skills at home on Friday, when family life will completely consume you. This weekend, you’ll get to hone a couple more of your hidden talents.
Sagittarius
The week begins with an adventure of sorts. A trip out into the field. Maybe a lunch. Joviality and good will figure strongly. Spending time developing your work friendships is as valuable as anything else you could be doing. On Tuesday and Wednesday, you will find a professional outlet for your creativity (your powers of expression are unsurpassed these days). Keeping up the lines of communication (even with a casual email here or there) is essential on Thursday. And on Friday, keep an open mind. All weekend you’ll be thinking about ways to expand your horizons.
Capricorn
It’s time for you to impose some structure on all these freewheeling projects. As things stand, nothing seems possible because no one has any idea where to begin. Once you put everything in order, productivity will improve. Everyone’s working well together in the middle of the week thanks in no small part to your efforts, and your natural skills as a leader are going to impress someone higher up. Toward the end of the week, keep your eyes on the future rather on immediate priorities. Leave the immediacy to someone else. This weekend, ponder the big picture.
Aquarius
So many doors are opening for you on Monday. You thought you’d have to do a lot more convincing to get what you want. Instead, you have carte blanche, which means you’re going to have to be disciplined about how you proceed. Don’t shoot blanks into the dark. Spend the middle of the week being as precise and logical as possible. You’ll be amazed by how much you get done. Keep your head down and don’t expect any rewards until Thursday afternoon or Friday, when praise and happiness and bonus cash will likely fall upon you. A warning: don’t rush out and spend that cash right away.
Pisces
Hopefully you’re rested and alert on Monday. Work is going to require your full attention. A disagreement with the boss is going to set you on edge and finally give definition to the tension you’ve been sensing for a while. The truth is luck will be on your side. But all week long think before speaking and if you need assistance from someone, by all means, ask for it. (Later in the week, when things have calmed down, you can in turn be of assistance to them.) Friday afternoon you’re daydreaming about the future, and the weekend is rich with soul-searching and self-discovery.
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