MORE evidence - if it was needed - that the ever-expanding world of further education is increasingly in the business of laying on daft and woolly courses in order to put revenue-bringing backsides on college seats as it is in teaching useful stuff.
This time, it comes from Burnley College - which, with 11,000 students on its books, is ostensibly engaged in the academic improvement of the equivalent of a small town's population.
It is advertising for part-time lecturers at up to £18.68 an hour - that's the sort of money that someone on nearly £40,000 a year gets.
In what topics? Well, in addition to clearly worthwhile subjects, such as plastering and IT skills, the college wants 'lecturers' in circuit training and line dancing.
Is teaching folk how to run or to ape the boot-scooting cavortings of American rednecks what you would call education - or, as I consider, a waste of public money to some tune?
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