So how are we going to choose our options? Are we going to let the Daily Mail make decision for us? Or Jeremy Paxman? Next time Paxman sneers about Media Studies, think on this. When presenting University Challenge, he often scoffs at the students who don’t know the answers to “obvious” questions about the Arts and Literature. But when it comes to the “obvious” science questions, he reads the answers as if they’re written in some strange dead language that nobody speaks. Paxman, like many who work at the BBC, was educated at public schools (Malvern College, Charterhouse) and at Cambridge University – where he studied English.