Reports how costs, social shifts and flexible timetables are driving students to commute rather than live in halls.
Changing social trends and creative timetables are making it more likely for students to stay at home while they study. Is campus life on the way out? For Lucy Brazier, a second-year business management student, commuting to university was an easy decision. She lives near Colchester, where the University of Essex is based. “[It] was the obvious choice for my course once I weighed up the costs,” she says. And with overnight accommodation available on campus, she feels she gets the best of both w…
Letters share firsthand reflections on bereavement after a parent’s death.
Gaby Hinsliff’s moving piece about the death of her mother brought back memories for Bob Dawson, John Lovell and Patrick Thomas Gosh, what a moving article by Gaby Hinsliff ( Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before, 5 September ). It brought back so many memories of my mother dying, even though it was over 50 years ago. She, too, like Gaby’s mother, died of a then-unknown cancer that ravaged her body and which made her almost unrecognis…