In a move likely to depress all future student slackers, a course in surf management which has been heavily criticised for being a "Mickey Mouse" degree, has been dropped by the Swansea Institute.

The course had been damned by a teaching union official as an example of a degree which devalued both academic and vocational education. The criticism obviously hit the mark as the BA (Hons) in surf management was scrapped to ‘protect the image’ of the Institute.

Swansea Institute's principal David Warner said they had been forced to axe the course as "it was impossible to stop people poking fun at it":

“This is extremely sad. This is an example of a very good vocational course within a dynamic industry which now will not be run simply because of the bigots. We do not want to get an image for doing anything other than serious vocational work, and others were just making fun of it.”

In a ‘radical’ move, the course, which required two D grades at A-Level to get on to and included surf destination planning amongst it’s modules, has been pulled with no replacement as yet in place. David Warner insists that all courses are planned to give students as much practical experience as possible, a claim bourn out by the 96.8 per cent of students who are in employment six months after leaving Swansea.

“After three months at least of attempting to explain to people that indeed this was a management course, it was impossible to stop people poking fun at it. This is not fair to all our other students to be tarred with the same brush.”