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In your news article ¡°In mission to protect students, OfS will be ¡®tough and rational¡¯¡± (News, 16?November), you report Nicola Dandridge, the incoming chief executive of the Office for Students, as saying: ¡°You only have a higher education experience once.¡± She goes on to imply that this unique experience happens early in a student¡¯s life for ¡°two, three or four years¡±.

Really?

Her assertions must come as something of a shock to inter?alia Birkbeck, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of London and the Open 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ.?

Even in the 19th century, what she says was not always true; far less in the 21st century.

Iain Smith
Glasgow

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