Lassie fair economics?

Sounds rather charming, along with "economical policy" for economic policy (fans of small government, take note). Most of the rest of the Telegraph's list of "schoolboy howlers", however, is more painful:

"It was something of a novelty to read that Stalin sent peasants who had misbehaved to Serbia [Siberia], that Napoleon crossed into Spain via the Philippines [Pyrenees] and that 16th-century France was torn apart by noble fractions [factions]," say the examiners.

The sloppy use of grammar, punctuation and spelling is singled out for criticism by examiners in history, geography, English, business studies, critical thinking and art.

The examiners for OCR, one of the three examination groups in England, are also concerned at the increased use in formal essays of slang and the abbreviated language of text messages.

Posted by David on November 3, 2004 4:18 PM