{"id":7366,"date":"2026-01-22T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:48:46","slug":"world-first-ai-partnership-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/world-first-ai-partnership-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"World-first AI partnership in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Group university, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The University of Manchester<\/a> has become the first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a new partnership with Microsoft, the agreement will see all of The University of Manchester\u2019s 65,000 students and staff receive specialist AI training. The strategic collaboration forms part of the University\u2019s wider digital and Ai transformation programme, which focuses on building long-term AI literacy and ability to use emerging technology tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Duncan Ivison, President and Vice-Chancellor of the university said: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAI is now part of everyday life. Our responsibility is not only to make these tools available to all our students and staff on an equitable basis, but to use the depth of expertise across our university to shape how AI is developed and applied for public good.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout will be completed by summer 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Group university, The University of Manchester has become the first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff. In a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7367,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions\/7367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}