Pencoed College, near Bridgend, has announced it is discontinuing under-subscribed agricultural courses from the end of this academic year.

BBC: The college has been forced to cut courses

The report welcomed the arrival of more low-cost airlines but said that "difficulties were emerging", especially when carriers cancelled flights that were under-subscribed.

BBC: News | UK | Record complaints by airline passengers

But if, as at the Academy I visited in Lewisham, good GCSE results doubled in a year, and a school once under-subscribed, now five times over-subscribed, how is that a denial of public service values?

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Tony Blair's speech

Mr Willetts told delegates he wanted Hefce to look at ways of making the system more "flexible" so a popular university might be given extra places while those that are under-subscribed will have their numbers cut.

BBC: Letters of congratulation for poorer top students

In this early phase Qutb, a Muslim who had come under the spell of Sufism, subscribed to the essentially secular nationalism of the day, the focus of which was opposition to British rule in Egypt and to Zionist colonisation in Palestine.

ECONOMIST: The father of Islamic fundamentalism