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Selling Beds is now a Degree Course

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    Selling Beds is now a Degree Course

    ...apparently

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7343027.stm

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

    #2
    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    I saw that in yesterdays paper. Struck me that it is (or should be) a vocational course.

    But then, they wouldn't be able to add to the statistics for putting kids through University...
    Older and ...well, just older!!

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      #3
      I don't know whether this is true or just urban legend but I heard that one of the Cornish universities offering Surfing as a degree sufferred a ridiculous drop out rate after the first year because all the 'dudes' that thought it was a dream degree couldn't do the complex mathematics involved in fluid/wave dynamics classes.
      It's about time I changed this sig...

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        #4
        Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
        I don't know whether this is true or just urban legend but I heard that one of the Cornish universities offering Surfing as a degree sufferred a ridiculous drop out rate after the first year because all the 'dudes' that thought it was a dream degree couldn't do the complex mathematics involved in fluid/wave dynamics classes.
        Makes you wonder how those surfer dudes manage at all, considering the basic Navier-Stokes equations of fluid dynamics still hold many mysteries, such as the existence and smoothness problem

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          #5
          Originally posted by zeitghost
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/s...nstitute.shtml

          After the outcry in the press, it didn't run
          Jebus! I thought the University of Slumberland was bad enough.

          Love at the contact details at the bottom: -


          Ian Jenkins,
          Surf and Beach Management Pathway Director,
          School of Leisure


          You can just imaging what kind of dude this Ian character might be. You could probably score a bit of weed off him.

          You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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            #6
            Now if they started a "sleeping in bed" course I might stand a chance of getting a degree.
            It's Deja-vu all over again!

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              #7
              Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
              Now if they started a "sleeping in bed" course I might stand a chance of getting a degree.
              Doesn't it depend on whether it's your own or not?

              IGMC...

              Older and ...well, just older!!

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