While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...

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WATERVILLE — Arlene Comber was a teenager in the 1940s when she learned shorthand at Waterville High School. She got so proficient, she could take dictation at 140 words a minute. Shorthand would ...

The Scottish exam board that told a disabled student he would not pass journalism diploma course because he cannot write shorthand has said it will review its criteria after “clarification” from the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...

A student with cerebral palsy will be able to take part in a college journalism course after a u-turn on the need for him to take shorthand classes. Kyle Gunn completed a media studies course at ...