SIR,
So, David Davies MP has decided that the solution, if you don't like the rise in tuition fees, is simply to get a job and not go to university (Beacon 1st December).
Is he suggesting that it is desirable that individuals, presumably from lower and middle income families, should be priced out of higher education?
He doesn't tell us where the necessary jobs, not requiring a degree, are going to appear from, and what they are going to pay.
He'll presumably decry the largess of his erstwhile paymaster, the National Assembly, for its decision not to raise tuition fees for Welsh students and not abolish the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
Davies has been silent on the EMA, or does he think that its removal would have the beneficial effect of discouraging Monmouth Comprehensive School pupils from even staying on into the Sixth Form?
Peter Short
(Monmouth)