U3A education is for any time of life

‘The “third age” is not limited to “retired people” – founders characterised it as a time in life when education is for its own sake, not for qualifications.’ Photograph: DCPhoto/Alamy

Jenny Braithwaite (Letters, 29 January) deftly characterises the peer-to-peer learning model of U3A groups. However, the “third age” is not limited to “retired people” – founders characterised it as a time in life when education is for its own sake, not for qualifications. And U3A groups are not “branches” of the national Third Age Trust, but autonomous units within it.
Keith Richards
Former chair, Third Age Trust

• Rishi Sunak, as a Hindu, should heed the Mahabharata, which relates the tale of Yudhishthira – a man who lost everything, including his wife, when involved in gambling (Sunak ‘out of touch’ for betting £1,000 on Rwanda plan’s success, says Labour, 5 February). I’d settle for Sunak just losing the election.
Phil Sinnott
Crosby, Merseyside