Readers propose ways of making tertiary education better value for money and more open to working-class,ethnic-minority and mature studentsSonia Sodha in her article on university reform is absolutely right to say that “the value-for-money question is critical”, not only because of idiotically tall fees and interest rate on loans, or but also because of ever-decreasing teaching and tutorial times (Turn the universities into comprehensives,18 August).
University reform should start not only with reducing fees, but with making it compulsory for all degree course publicity to include the number of hours, or both of teaching time in each year of the course and of tutorial time where any academic problems can be dealt with. Whether personal tutors are available or not should also be included.
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Source: theguardian.com