Gone are the days when careless students are humiliated only in front of their professors, or their classmates. Nowadays British students who don’t double-check their writing risk seeing their slip-ups circulated everywhere online.

The students can thank the Times Higher Education’s recently revived annual “exam howlers” competition, in which merciless professors submit their students’ dumbest — and most unintentionally amusing — writing flubs to the magazine. At least the anonymous students can wallow in their shame unrecognized.

Some of the honored blunders of the year: A research student’s assertion that “tackling climate change will require an unpresidented response.”

An English student’s literary interpretation: “The Handmaid’s Tale shows how patriarchy treats women as escape goats.”

An economics student who bemoaned a regulator’s “laxative enforcement policies.” In at least one instance, however, the student got the last laugh. Apparently, the student wrote, “Control of infectious diseases is very important in case an academic breaks out.” —Allie Grasgreen