University admissions and messy exits

Readers debate routes into university, the mess left behind when students move, and Jeremy Hunt’s student loan promise. Bernie Evans asks a critical question about pupils from underprivileged backgrounds and suggests a more generous route into university ( Letters, 29 June). We have been in this situation before, decades ago, in the context of adult education. By focusing on women’s return to learning and then access to higher education, we discovered that their children followed the