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Minister for edukayshun

Britain's minister for schools has a string of basic errors on his website.

Jim Knight, who went to Cambridge University, has admitted he could do better when it comes to spelling, after a newspaper found several examples of poor spelling on his website, they include "maintainence" for "maintenance," "acheiving" for "achieving" and "archeaological" for "archaeological," as well as the more obviously lazy "foce" for "force" and "convicned" for "convinced."

He blamed some of the problems on his failure to check what he writes, but he obviously doesn't know how to use a spell checker either.

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