Lecturers share student gaffes

A British magazine says lecturer-submitted gaffes by university students include a comment about Internet use by the French Resistance during World War II.

The Times of London’s Higher Education magazine said submissions to its annual exam howlers competition include a sentence from a student at London’s Brunel University explaining the military might of the United States, which the student said possesses highly developed and powerful marital equipment, The Times reported Thursday.

A University of Leeds student told his instructor a political group used the Internet to publicize their cause, just like the French Resistance did during the Second World War.

Meanwhile, a Staffordshire University biology student discussing genomes authored a paper on the science of gnomes.

Emma Cayley, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, submitted one of her students’ comments on a medieval French poem, noting all of the sentences end in a coma.

That’s pretty much how I felt marking it, too, Cayley said.