“What do student newspapers complain about these days? How about this headline in Swansea University’s student paper following the recent bad weather. ‘Students lose £20 a lecture after snow sends university into lockdown.’ It pointed out that fee-paying students are not getting full value for money if lectures are cancelled. Students were seeing their ‘money disappear quicker than the snow melted’. It illustrates something about changed attitudes on campus when students are complaining that they are not getting enough lectures. Paying fees means that students are customers as well as learners …” (more)
[Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 16 March]