As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
At the Association for Journalism Education conference last week, Tim Luckhurst spoke about something we have discussed many times at the Centre for Journalism: the number of journalism degrees on offer in this country that offer their students little or no chance of getting a job within the industry. There is, he told the conference, an "element of fraud" in a system that allows such courses to proliferate.
Unsurprisingly, his views - reported here by journalism.co.uk, not necessarily with perfect precision - have sparked vigorous debate around the blogosphere.
