Brian Micklethwait has a post about Tesco offering degrees in retail management.

Presumably they know what they're doing. Providing they don't try to make the courses too academic and theoretical it's probably a reasonable thing to do, although whether it's a degree in the generally accepted meaning of the term is another question.

Meanwhile the Scottish Council Parliament Government has issued guidelines on the teaching of computer games design in schools. A few schools have been teaching games design for a while now, and this announcement looks very much like the standard politician's "eye-catching initiative" - intended to drive the news agenda rather than herald anything new. That said, funky subjects like this may well attract the attention of some children who might otherwise be turned off by school, so it can do little harm.