Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Academic decline to continue.

I have just been sent an E Mail offering me a chance to improve my qualifications.
Liverpool Hope University is to launch a Masters Degree in Beatles Studies!

That one student might offer a thesis on the Beatles is perhaps justifiable - at a stretch - but for this to be systematic 'study' is an academic absurdity.
If you hadn't believed me when I have talked of 'dumbing down' in past articles - perhaps now you will!

Appalling Attack in Belfast: Brave Rescuer Attacks Perpetrator and Saves Victim's Life.

      This man attacked the would-be killer with a hurling stick.  Must we assume that he will now be arrested and charged for his behaviour...