A senior New Zealand medical figure has sent me the following. It speaks for itself about the commercialisation of our universities, tailoring nonsense degrees to fit the intellectually challenged.

Auckland University has announced via a newspaper full page advertorial, a new degree course, specifically a Bachelor of Communications.

I don’t believe in my long life of 10 hours daily reading, I’ve ever read such abominable guff. Reading through the advert’s verbiage it appears the underlying proposition is the importance of speaking and writing clearly, something utterly alien to whoever penned the advertisement. Here’s two examples.

In her daily four hour television address to the nation shown compulsorily on all television channels by decree, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced that from September all motor-vehicles will be banned. As provided for in the Treaty, maori drivers alone will be exempt.