Does going to university make you a better person?

[Tim Holmes]

Second marking the Ning blogs has been an interesting experience. Not only has it given me a chance to review the various arguments that exploded during the course of the module, it has also revealed a pretty persistent strand of thinking that can be characterised as:

"I have paid a lot of money to go to university and this puts me in a superior position to the people who have not done so.

"Therefore I will make a better journalist than those other people."

I make no comment about this, I do not want to start an argument about it, it is not restricted to one strand – but it is there and I really don't know how to react to it.

[Cara Berkley]

Back up your argument and name your sources. As it is your story doesn't stand up....