A COLLEGE slammed for drawing up a list of politically correct phrases for students and staff was today accused of getting its priorities wrong following a critical Ofsted report.

Ofsted, the government inspection body, branded the standard of education provided at Stockport College as ''inadequate''.

The inspectors found six out of 13 curriculum areas were ''unsatisfactory'' while the leadership provided by principal Richard Evans and his managers was ''weak''.

Ridicule

Last year, the college was widely ridiculed after it drew up a list of 59 politically incorrect words and phrases, which were deemed inappropriate.

Phrases like ''taking the Mickey'' were deemed anti-Irish and ''slaving over a hot stove'' was described as ''minimising the oppression of the slave trade''.

Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, which condemned the college last year, said: ''It's one of the most damning inspection reports I have come across.

''The college has got its priorities wrong.''

Despite that, the college's equal opportunities policy is among a number of areas praised in the inspectors' report.

And college spokesman Richard Tuson said that 85 per cent of the teaching was judged to be good or satisfactory by Ofsted.

''There are many thousands of students each year who could give evidence that we have excellent teaching at Stockport College,'' he said.

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