Letter: Confusion over student fees policy

Dr Gary Slapper
Wednesday 13 August 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: David Walker quotes a Leeds University professor as saying, "Students who live at home don't integrate; it limits the range of experience they are subjected to; they are not as rounded as students."

That is a nonsensical generalisation. All Open University students live at home yet many are among the most socially and intellectually rounded undergraduate and postgraduate students in Britain.

Dr GARY SLAPPER

Director, The Law Programme

The Open University

Milton Keynes,

Buckinghamshire

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