In between a string of meetings this week, I have been busy marking exam scripts and projects, hence the absence of any posts for the past couple of days. Normal service will resume shortly. In the interim, I thought I would share with you two or three exam howlers that amused me: The invasion at…
The media have been reporting various entries sent in to the Times Higher Education’s “exam howlers” competition. According to one student, the UK has an electoral system known as “first parcel post”. I had a student on one occasion who wrote “the Prime Minister has the power of disillusion”. I had to point out that,…
