LoginOpinion: Students deserve better
Students have long been expected to settle for second-best, says Matt Allwright
Posted 15 January 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Consumer Goods and Services|National
OPINION: Today's students face soaring tuition fees, crushing debt and often appalling rented accommodation. Comparing past and present, this commentary argues that higher education now demands far more financially while too often delivering far less.
I’ll never forget the unadulterated joy of watching The Young Ones, the anarchic 80s comedy showing grimly hilarious extremes of student life. Four incompatible housemates in a rented house which conspired on a weekly basis to destroy them, via either an evil landlord, toxic fridge, rotten staircase, or filth and mould with occasional flashes of ancient wallpaper. This (minus explosions and tal...
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