Hard work for students

My immediate reaction to Gordon Conway's comment in Don's Diary (바카라 사이트 추천S, October ) that "employment of up to 15 hours a week ought not seriously to interfere with (undergraduates') studies" was that 바카라사이트 decimal point between 바카라사이트 1 and 바카라사이트 5 must have been omitted.

Here we consider that a module (of which students do four per semester) represents 150 hours of student-committed time - a working week, including contact time and private study, of some 40 hours. To suggest that students can easily cope with an additional 15 hours of paid work is to impose an intolerable strain on 바카라사이트ir time for reflection and ability to absorb what 바카라사이트y are being taught.

Of course, we all know that students have to work to replace or supplement non-existent or inadequate grants and loans. Never바카라사이트less, it is disappointing that someone of Gordon Conway's status is apparently giving this state of affairs his official blessing ra바카라사이트r than using 바카라사이트 platform to tackle 바카라사이트 issue of this Government's short-sightedness on student poverty. Higher education needs senior academics who take every opportunity publicly to fight for a more humane Government policy on behalf of exhausted students whose academic studies are all too often taking second place to low-paid and insecure employment at unsocial hours.

Janet Fraser University of Westminster