{"id":21213,"date":"2025-12-15T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/pens-at-the-ready-a-gen-z-trainee-takes-on-the-guardians-scribbler-in-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:37:18","slug":"pens-at-the-ready-a-gen-z-trainee-takes-on-the-guardians-scribbler-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/pens-at-the-ready-a-gen-z-trainee-takes-on-the-guardians-scribbler-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian\u2019s \u2018scribbler-in-chief\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert<\/p>\n

This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops<\/a> after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles \u201care not strong enough\u201d.<\/p>\n

With Ofqual preparing to launch a public consultation on the introduction of onscreen exams, we decided to conduct a test of our own, pitting the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, a seasoned hack of the pen-and-paper generation, against George Francis Lee, our gen-Z journalist in training.<\/p>\n

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\nAs the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert
\nThis week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles \u201care not strong enough\u201d.
\nWith Ofqual preparing to launch a public consultation on the introduction of onscreen exams, we decided to conduct a test of our own, pitting the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, a seasoned hack of the pen-and-paper generation, against George Francis Lee, our gen-Z journalist in training. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles \u201care not strong enough\u201d. With Ofqual …<\/p>\n

Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian\u2019s \u2018scribbler-in-chief\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}