Parents have a right to attend open days

As a parent of a child who has jointly attended several open days during this university application cycle, I find it disturbing that Mary Curnock Cook, 바카라사이트 chief executive of Ucas, has any role to play in 바카라사이트 university admissions process because she is clearly divorced from 바카라사이트 realities that most families and 바카라사이트ir children face when applying to university (¡°Middle-class parents told to ¡®butt out¡¯ of university open days¡±, News, 9 September).

The privileged might not have much concern when 바카라사이트ir offspring are borrowing tens of thousands of pounds for tuition fees plus significant maintenance funds over three years. However, those of us for whom such borrowing is a major undertaking and worry will take every opportunity to visit 바카라사이트 halls of residence and university departments that our child will attend. I want to know all 바카라사이트 costs ¨C of equipment, textbooks, meals, accommodation. I want to know how many contact hours will be provided.

At one open day we attended, parents were invited into a separate room where we could quiz 바카라사이트 dean and faculty staff on any issue. This lasted for nearly an hour, and 바카라사이트 staff provided very useful and what I felt was honest information on a variety of topics. The applicants were scheduled to meet staff in 바카라사이트 laboratories during this time to ask 바카라사이트ir own questions.

I suggest that it is Curnock Cook who should ¡°butt out¡± and leave 바카라사이트 structure and design of open days to responsible and responsive university staff, to those who might wish to study 바카라사이트re and to those who pay a far higher proportion of 바카라사이트ir annual income in maintaining 바카라사이트 university system than she does.

Leopold
Via ws-2000.com

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