An ex-student has been to visit me. She went away to University for the first time at the end of September and is now back home for a 'reading week'. The total contact time she will have with her tutors upon return is approximately 3.5 hours per week. Her friend (different university, different course) has the intellectually demanding timetable of 1.45 hours per week. This is a scandal.
Instead of making us work longer at the end of our career, why don't we start earlier? Degrees should be cut to two years. The majority of graduates would then begin their tax earning life a year earlier and there would presumably be more of them than would normally be expected to be alive 40 years later. I'm sure this would be hugely beneficial to the Treasury - can someone work out the maths and get back to me?
Don't even get me going on postgraduate degrees . . .
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