SHOULD all young people aim to go to university?” asks The Issue (Oxford Mail, May 19).
Well, ask a silly question, get a silly answer, as they say – and they do not come much more idiotic than that!
The real issue should obviously be how we return to a situation in which such institutions cater for an elite, albeit more genuinely academic and less socio-economic than even 30 or 40 years ago, when, contrary to popular belief, mediocrity still tended to triumph over meritocracy.
Then tuition fees and living expenses could be provided according to need, thus, apart from anything else, ending all these ridiculous and tedious debates.
DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford
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