In the week before the statistics were released, Clegg prepared the ground for failure in a speech to the CBI, saying the Cabinet Office was to lead "a comprehensive government review into the employment, education and training provision available for 16 to 24-year-olds".
With the best will in the world, wouldn't the same sort of snobbery impose a pecking order on Baker's pathways, in which career colleges would be demoted to the dumping ground for failure, and UTCs only one place up from them? "No, no, I think the tide is turning my way.
After all, if missing all but two classes isn't grounds for failure, what is?
A CBS programme, "60 Minutes", disclosed memos that purportedly describe pressure from above to "sugar-coat" Mr Bush's record in the National Guard after his commander had ordered the young pilot to be grounded for failure to fulfil his obligations.
A coincidence?Hotline, June 16thGeek of the week"I'm not an expert on computers"Al Gore, inventor of the Internet, on why he's lost lots of e-mails, Time, June 26thMisspent youth of the weekThe London Sunday Times reported that in 1972, during his time as a pilot in the National Guard, George W. Bush was grounded for failure to take a medical exam that would have included a drug test.
Hyperinflation, "that dark, febrile carnival of the German mark", prepared the ground for the failure of the first German democracy and the rise of Hitler.
But unless that rhetoric is turned into policies that match the scale of the crisis, both before and after the election, it risks laying the ground for political failure.
EU president Italy, struggling to steer 25 bickering present and future member states towards agreement on a historic treaty, prepared the ground for possible failure saying it would not accept a deal at any cost.
The film's success with its target audience is precisely the grounds for its failure with most critics.
Both studies have been criticised on procedural grounds, as well as for failure to include the patients' blood counts and oestrogen levels beforehand.
Sir Fred is believed to be in the south of France having gone to ground since the huge "rewards for failure" row over his pension erupted earlier this year and his house in Edinburgh has been vandalised.
