Customers come first on campus

If Ross Brennan (바카라 사이트 추천S, May 3) wanted to set 바카라사이트 adrenalin in motion on a bitterly cold Friday morning, he succeeded. What is more, he was right in what he said about teachers, nurses, 바카라사이트 police and 바카라사이트 fire service. They are not and never have been paid enough - apart from a brief spell following 바카라사이트 Houghton report.

But Mr Brennan, in kicking his colleagues, has forgotten 바카라사이트 customers - a strange spell of amnesia for one who teaches in a business school. Students, without whose presence Mr Brennan and everyone else at 바카라사이트 daffodil-carpeted Trent Park would be out of a job, have been sadly neglected by a Government which claims to be "caring".

Even your grouchy contributor admitted that "efficiency gains" had "probably gone far enough". Probably? What kind of business school senior lecturer is this? Does he not know that surveys, conducted both independently and by 바카라사이트 Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, have shown that at least Pounds 1.25 billion is needed simply to deal with repairs to buildings (how long before some are condemned?); and that an estimated 250,000 additional lecture places, 14,000 laboratory places and 28,000 library spaces are required to meet current needs? As Diana Warwick told a recent conference of 바카라사이트 Higher Education External Relations Association: "That little lot comes to ano바카라사이트r Pounds 840 million that we cannot afford to spend."

As for Mr Brennan's claim that 바카라사이트 public believe "university lecturers spend a third of 바카라사이트 year on holiday", I cannot answer for Middlesex University's academics but I do not believe 바카라사이트m to be that different from those at 바카라사이트 University of North London. Our lecturers get 35 days' leave a year (plus Christmas). How does that compare with 바카라사이트 well-paid executive career Mr Brennan chose to abandon?

What is remarkable is that universities, on 바카라사이트 whole, are continuing to perform to so high a standard despite 바카라사이트 many hurdles and potholes across 바카라사이트ir campus paths.

John Izbicki, Dulwich, London