A degree of self-motivation is the key to university success | Letters

Lesley Matthews and Margaret Squires respond to a piece by Adrian Chiles in which he compares the workload at English and French universitiesAdrian Chiles (English students spend a fortune to go to university. Shouldn’t that buy them more teaching and less partying?, 29 March) extols the virtues of the French university regime, comparing it with the UK, where students can do what they like. At the start of my sixth form (60 years ago), our history teacher told us that he would not be chasi