The Economist When I was at university,
the biggest technological problems I faced were scratches on my CDs and a shortage of white-out,
or if you speak English properly, tip-ex.
Today's students must cope with much greater upheaval.
The language faculty has decided.
to switch back to handwritten exams for literature.
So in the exam hall, no books in front of you.
Cat Harrison Gays graduated from Oxford University last summer.
Some of her final French and Italian exams were done online.
Next year's crop of finalists will have a much more analogue experience.
When I was speaking to my Italian tutor about it,
he did so the main reason was because of the use of AI.
If you're a Brit, you will already have picked up on Kat's North Yorkshire accent.
She comes from a village on the east coast of Britain,
where some technologies are still stuck in the 1980s.
We've still got landlines because we don't have mobile phone service.
It's that kind of rural.
It was a fun childhood.
You know, you buy the beach, you buy the millers, going out on boats and the summer and stuff.
But if cat's home life as a child was a throwback, university was very different.