News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

WHOOPS! The Daily Telegraph has put the spotlight on a competition run by the Times Higher Education magazine in which university dons nominated 'howlers' made by students.

A University of Gloucestershire student’s claimed that “Sex has puzzled biologists ever since it was discovered by Darwin and Mendel” and a science student wrote in his exam that “Ebola could lead to death”, before adding “in some cases fatal”.