Knowledge porridge

October 8, 2015

That subject knowledge itself is not even mentioned among “What students prize about UK higher education ” (News, 1 October) caused us almost to choke on our breakfast.

Has university become purely instrumental for undergraduates?

Paul G. Ellis, business school tutor and academic copy-editor
Mary Carless-Ellis, school headmistress (retired)
London and Chichester


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