A diploma of self-drive is the important to college accomplishment | Letters

Adrian Chiles (English pupils commit a fortune to go to college. Shouldn’t that buy them far more instructing and a lot less partying?, 29 March) extols the virtues of the French university routine, evaluating it with the United kingdom, the place students can do what they like. At the start out of my sixth type (60 years ago), our record teacher informed us that he would not be chasing us to get our essays in on time as he realized that we wanted to go to university. We had to be self‑motivated. End result? I did nothing for a calendar year and a half. I unsuccessful my mock A-degree historical past exam. I then worked prodigiously tricky and bought a B in my A-degree. I went to college. He experienced not just taught me heritage – he experienced taught me to be dependable for my individual learning.
Lesley Matthews
Shipley, West Yorkshire

Adrian Chiles is proper to blame the culture in some universities in this region for scrappy levels. Possibly the universities ought to make it compulsory for each individual university student to be a part of a operate team. When my daughter analyzed in Belgium, a group of Germans requested her if she experienced 1, and seeing that she did not recognize the principle, invited her to be part of theirs. She has in no way labored so challenging in her life.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife