Simon Jenkins claims that students at university face an “academic experience that has almost nothing to do with real life” (As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why?, 14 August).
I would invite him to join my journalism sessions at the University of Northampton, where he would need to finish the day with a radio or TV package plus social media content, as well as his written piece for the paper and online. Today’s student journalists need to produce far more varied content than when he was an editor.
