Cambridge University could allow laptops for exams amid fear young people are losing ability to writ

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Cambridge University could allow laptops and iPads for exams amid fear young people are losing ability to write

Cambridge University is considering axing compulsory written exams and allowing students to use laptops or iPads instead, after tutors complained that students' handwriting is becoming illegible.

Academics say that the move, which would bring an end to more than 800 years of tradition, has come about because students rely too heavily on laptops in lectures, and are losing the ability to write by hand.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...ams-amid-fear/

[Linebacker]

What are you doing in Cambridge if you can't even write properly

[Loki]

Pathetic. Is this how they intend to solve their problem of illiteracy? Some schools in the West are surely falling behind the rest of the world now. "The West" as we know it is finished.