SUM banana skin

16th January 2004, 12:00am

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SUM banana skin

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Retired Labour MP Maria Fyfe found that she couldn’t get into a course at Anniesland College because it had run out of its funding SUMS, that all-important Student Unit of Measurement, better translated as bums on seats.

How ironic that a former lecturer in trade union studies at Central College finds herself locked out of FE pro tem.

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