Red-faced university bosses have apologised for publishing a student prospectus littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

The University of Bradford's part-time courses prospectus is a glossy professional-looking booklet designed to encourage people to enrol at the seat of learning and improve their education.

But the effect is spoiled slightly by incorrect punctuation, stray capital letters and misspellings scattered across the inside pages.

The authors have managed to spell university as "univeristy", seemingly turned the word lectures into a proper noun by awarding it a capital L, and managed to write the following sentence: "People who's time for study is limited by work or other comitments."

The booklet contains a huge variety of courses aimed at equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to meet the challenges of the modern world. But basic English, it seems, is not one of them.

The university's director of the Centre for Continuing Education, Geoff Layer, said: "It's very unfortunate that this has happened. Mistakes do sometimes happen when producing publications and obviously we do try to avoid this.

"We have already put new structures in place to ensure that we don't experience similar problems in the future. We hope that people will still find the booklet useful as a guide to the very wide range of popular and valuable courses available at the Centre for Continuing Education."

A member of staff at the centre, Matthew McEvoy, said the prospectus had been produced to very tight production deadlines which meant the first two pages did not go through the proof reading process.

Pulping the booklets and starting again was not an option because the university was dealing with public money. He did not know how many copies had been printed.

"It is regrettable," said Mr McEvoy. "But in my opinion it does not deflect from the content of the brochure."

University of Bradford students union communications secretary Neil Drayton said he did not think the mistakes were a huge problem and that it was "easily done".