Sacrifices made by Nasser Hassan Mohammed Al Balooshi and other Emirati soldiers for the nation's future will never be forgotten (Teenage son tells of grief at losing 'mentor' father after Yemen mission, November 27).
I hope Operation Restoring Hope comes to its logical conclusion and peace prevails in the region.
Name withheld by request
ISIL is a group of criminals
The last paragraph of Faisal Al Yafai's article After Paris, ISIL will now have to fight its own radicals (November 24) sums it up: global jihad "creates new enemies and pitches a small band of rebels against the massed ranks of the civilised world".
In this context, ISIL jihadists are nothing more than rapists, murderers, thugs and thieves with no moral compass and no hope.
Dave Pryce, Dubai
I am an avid reader of The National and trust this source more than the any other newspaper in the country.
I would like to suggest that you don’t call ISIL Islamic, as they have no link with Islamic belief.
It’s sad that a beautiful religion such as Islam is being conjugated with a group of hideous people trying its level best to defame Islam.
Majida, Abu Dhabi
What punishment did the students receive? I see this all too often happening in high schools as well.
Claudia Gabriel, Dubai
Student are to blame and so are the administration staff, but the real blame should go to a culture where they live in where the solution to every problem/ issue is throwing money at it.
Rohan George, South Africa
I expected an objective opinion from The National.
I found it incredibly irrelevant that the article mentioned the administrators’ nationalities. Isn’t that stereotyping at its worst?
Also, it is fascinating how the article’s angle revolves around the administrators, while lightly letting off the students as if it wasn’t their fault at all.
Sana Ayesha, Sharjah
Bribery incident is shocking
It's shocking to hear about bribery (Bribery should not be tolerated here, November 26). It is worrisome that students these days see bribery as a solution to their poor academic performance rather than hard work and dedication.
These students who think that money will solve their problems are under a false impression. They are cheating themselves.
I agree that almost anything can be bought with money but knowledge, talent and intelligence.
These students, as well as the university employees involved in the case should be ashamed of themselves and must be punished for making education a business deal.
Those involved should be expelled from the university for tarnishing its reputation and committing a serious crime.
I believe the parents of these students are to blame for failing to instil good values in them.
People need to realise that education requires effort and hard work, it is not a commodity to be valued against money.
Fatima Suhail, Sharjah