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!

Do You Remember Voting For This?

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