A government-funded (that should probably read 'tax-payer funded') course is teaching adults how to send mobile text messages and download ringtones.
The two-hour course in Birmingham is run by the Learning and Skills Council, as part of its Bite Size Intros scheme.
The course organisers say it covers all aspects of using mobile phones, including sending text messages and creating an address book.
IT lecturer Maggie Fitzpatrick-Jordan, who launched the course, said it served a real purpose. She told reporters: "Lots of people are really scared of mobile phones, particularly the older generation. They're not happy with using it, they'll often prefer to call or something, and in order to save money quite often we can text."
Critics have called it a waste of taxpayers' money, with the Campaign for Real Education branding it a "disgrace", but they're both wrong;
It's An Outrage!!
Why didn't they just run a course called 'How To Read an Instruction Manual'? (Or RTFM, as real IT insiders know it!)
Or better still, spend the money teaching the younger generation how to read and write and string intelligible sentences together... now that is a crazy idea!
Y'see, if you encourage this sort of this amongst the older generation, pretty soon we'll have double the problem of Text Speak in Daily Life.
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