We all benefit from higher education – so why should only students bear the costs? | Brief letters
Student finance | Duvet difficulties | Sunbed peg solution | The French way | Permafrost | Cerne Abbas GiantRachel Reeves thinks it is “not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so” (Economics viewpoint, 1 February). Higher education – nay, all education – is the public good that enables safe infrastructure, healthcare, scientific and technological innovation, and the many benefits of the UK’s creative arts economy. I haven’t been to war or to prison yet, but I am fairly certain that Reeves would hold it only right that as a taxpayer I bear the costs for others to do so.Lucy HartleyGlasgow• I tried the “Swiss roll” solution with my double duvet cover (Letters, 1 February), but ended up with something more like a three-tier wedding cake. Could we have a series of line diagrams?Tom StubbsSurbiton, Surrey Continue reading...
Student finance | Duvet difficulties | Sunbed peg solution | The French way | Permafrost | Cerne Abbas Giant
Rachel Reeves thinks it is “not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so” (Economics viewpoint, 1 February). Higher education – nay, all education – is the public good that enables safe infrastructure, healthcare, scientific and technological innovation, and the many benefits of the UK’s creative arts economy. I haven’t been to war or to prison yet, but I am fairly certain that Reeves would hold it only right that as a taxpayer I bear the costs for others to do so.
Lucy Hartley
Glasgow
• I tried the “Swiss roll” solution with my double duvet cover (Letters, 1 February), but ended up with something more like a three-tier wedding cake. Could we have a series of line diagrams?
Tom Stubbs
Surbiton, Surrey Continue reading...
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