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First week of term and the iLancaster monitoring and surveillance machine kicks into gear. Well, no. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cue lots of students randomly pointing their phones at any and all boxes in the corner of the seminar rooms. And lecturers hastily scrambling around for bits of paper and a pen to compile a register. Brave new world indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First week of term and the iLancaster monitoring and surveillance machine kicks into gear. Well, no. Cue lots of students randomly pointing their phones at any and all boxes in the corner of the seminar rooms. 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