Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The Department Of Stuff We All Knew Already

That whole UCAS thing really boiled my blood, so it's nice to mock the media for something else for a change.

The Guardian have rocked the entire education establishment to its foundations by breaking the terrible news that the 50% participation target probably won't be met by 2010.

I half expected this news to be alongside another headline informing us gravely that man had set foot on the moon, or perhaps that King Harold had suffered an uncomfortable reverse at Hastings.

After all, it's only a year since HEFCE came to the very same conclusion and actually announced it, so well done the Guardian on trying to fabricate another story.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A national newspaper fabricating a story, who'd have thought ?

Charlie Ball said...

Heh (sorry for the delay - been away with an unexciting injury).

The press haven't so much made it up entirely as pretended they thought of it first. But yes, it's hardly uncommon.