Your local Oxfam shop may well be relieved to hear about this. If you're getting rid of an old jacket with patches on the elbows, heave it over to Lewisham College, which has stumbled on an intriguing phenomenon.
Bill Rammell is not easily put off his grub, you would think. His appetite has apparently been dented, though, by grumblings from evening class devotees up and down the land about the cuts.
It's agreed that Dave Cameron took a gamble in agreeing to do that telly interview with Jonathan Ross. But that was nothing compared with the risk that skills minister Phil Hope is taking.
On a recent fact-finding trip to Germany, Professor Frank Coffield, of London University's Institute of Education, dropped in on a training session for apprentice electricians near Duisberg.
Unless emergency action is taken, there will soon be another addition to the endangered species list. In some parts of the country, it is already nigh on impossible to find a punter with a decent gripe about their further education college.
We are not really supposed to celebrate British dambusting skills while the World Cup is running. But the diary will risk it by mentioning Stuart Thomson, a 36-year-old mining engineer and further education success.
Up with this I will no longer put. Paul Mackney, self-styled "joint general secretary" of the new University and College Union, can no longer traduce me with impunity.
The nastiest recent parliamentary scrap wasn't between Gordon Brown and the prime minister but involved two obscure Tories in - of all things - a debate on whether all teenagers should do work experience.