Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson unveiled the Online Basics scheme, which will offer free-of-charge short courses covering five modules including typing and mouse skills along with email use and how to surf the web safely.

The courses can be taken from home, providing students have a PC and internet access.

However, those without a computer or an internet connection will be able to take the courses via UK online centres that have been set up in London, Barnsley, Oldham, Gloucester and Devon.

If they can't use a mouse how the hell are they going to do the course if they can't get to one of the face-to-face courses?

I'm assuming it'll be the general practice of right and left clicking etc

Pasting JPEGs into Word. Using Excel and Powerpoint to produce flyers.

Oh, the usual, I expect.