IN regard to student accommodation problems, the answer is simple.

Ex-RAF Upper Heyford, which lies approximately 12 miles north of Oxford, has more than 50 “hardened” aircraft shelters which have stood almost idle since 1994, along with empty barrack blocks.

Fill the required number of shelters with wooden benches and wooden-topped trestles, then house the little darlings in the barrack blocks.

Dress them out in khaki overalls, along with their teachers decked out in green overalls.

This would save money on paraphernalia like mortarboards and cloaks etc.

Lessons could start sharp at 8.30am, from Monday to Friday after their mummies or daddies had dropped them off, picking them up again on Friday afternoon at 5pm.

All meals served from the cookhouse are eaten in the existing canteens.

There are no off-site escapades at all, no alcohol, smoking or drugs.

And most of all, strict separation of the sexes and no foreign students as their own countries could benefit from teaching them.

Holidays would be two weeks in the summer, one week at Christmas.

Let the indigenous people of Oxford live in peace and quiet, also enjoy the extra parking spaces.

What would happen to the old universities I hear you say.

Could they be used as old-age pensioners’ homes for those who have reached the ripe old age of 50 or over?

TONY O’GORMAN, Main Street, Bicester