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Pointless Media Studies degree courses facing closure, warn under-achieving academics

silly hat industry also under threatScores of rubbish Media Studies degrees around the country are facing closure, according to the lecturers’ union NOPULU (Not Proper University Lecturers’ Union). The warning follows new figures from UCAS, which show the lucrative ‘crap sector’ of higher education in sharp decline following the rise in tuition fees.

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Posted: May 8th, 2013
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Teachers call for longer working day and shorter holidays for MPs

‘If the changes had already been applied this may have saved the poor loves the extra work of having to claim £3,000 expenses for returning to work early to praise Margaret Thatcher.’

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Posted: Apr 19th, 2013
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History of Michael Gove to be made compulsory in secondary schools

Michael Gove, circa 1950GCSE pupils will have to study the story of Michael Gove as part of a new compulsory history curriculum put forward by the Department for Education (DfE).

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Posted: Apr 3rd, 2013
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Gove gives go-ahead for Fagin Free School

Following a successful application to the Department of Education, the Fagin Free School, will open in the London Borough of Walthamstow next September.

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Posted: Jan 17th, 2013
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Gove to reintroduce school bullies

already getting complaints from Leveson minorEducation secretary Michael Gove has defended his decision to reintroduce formal bullying into secondary schools, and rejected accusations it would mean ‘two tiers before bedtime.’

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Posted: Jun 21st, 2012
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