Education Guardian - Do the maths

I thought this article by Jonathan Wolff was a nice, clear discussion of what's been going on in universities recently. Fairly depressing reading. I particularly admire him for admitting that he doesn't know what the solution might be to the problems he identifies. I have to say, though, that I didn't enjoy this sentence:

But taught students must be

I've always felt bad about journalists using this kind of construction (not that Jonathan Wolff is a journalist, really - he's head of philosophy at UCL) as it seems like a fairly crude way of trying to sound authoritative. This one is particularly bad, but it is a useful example of how something short and simple can still cause a bit of a processing hiccup.

B-)