Thursday's Quote of the Day
09:35 UK time, Thursday, 8 May 2008
"Edinburgh isn't what it was" - Alan Sugar's sidekick Margaret Mountford rues the decline in higher education.
Look away now those who missed Wednesday night's episode of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One's The Apprentice, and anyone recently rejected by Edinburgh University. In a three-way discussion about the fate of a cadidate, one of Sir Alan Sugar's henchmen, Nick Hewer, is aghast at the subject's ignorance, noting that he had studied Classics at Edinburgh. With an almost stage-like sigh, Hewer's cohort, Margaret Mountford, issues this damning assessment of how high education standards have slumped.
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