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　　University Life under Strain

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　　The quality of university life is under strain

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　　from the relentless expansion of higher education,

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　　leading independent schools in Britain complained.

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　　The warning followed survey of the impressions of campus life

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　　gained by former pupils of the schools.

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　　Infrequent contact with tutors,

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　　worries over student safety,

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　　and even grumbles over the food

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　　were all seen as symptoms of the pressure on universities.

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　　Head teachers said that standards could well drop

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　　if the squeeze on university budgets continued.

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　　A survey was carried out because of fears

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　　that the level of pastoral care in universities has declined.

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　　A number of students’suicides

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　　had raised concerns among head teachers.

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　　Although most of the 6,000 students surveyed

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　　were enjoying university life,

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　　almost a third were less satisfied with their course.

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　　About one in ten had serious financial problems

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　　and some gave alarming accounts of conditions

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　　around their halls of residence.

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　　Incidents quoted included a fatal stabbing

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　　and shooting outside a hall of residence,

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　　the petrol-bombing of cars near another residence,

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　　and two racist attacks.

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　　Nine percent of women and seven percent of men rated security

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　　as unsatisfactory in the area where they lived.

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　　The survey confirmed head teachers’fears about contact

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　　between students and tutors slipping,

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　　with a quarter of the students seeing their tutor

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　　only every three weeks.

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　　New students, used to regular contact with their teachers,

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　　found it hard to adapt to the change.

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　　Interview techniques were a cause for concern,

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　　ith the school calling for more training of the university staff

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　　involved in admissions.

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　　Some headmasters complained that interview

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　　ere increasingly “eccentric”.

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　　One greeted an applicant by throwing him an apple.

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　　Another interview lasted only three minutes.

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　　About a quarter of the students found the workload at university

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　　heavier than they had expected.

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　　There were differences between subjects,

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　　with architecture,

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　　engineering, veterinary science,

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　　medicine and some science subjects demanding the most work.

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　　The survey also confirmed previous concerns about possible racial bias

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　　in admissions to medical courses.

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　　Applicants with names suggesting an ethnic minority background

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　　had been rejected by white candidates with the same qualifications.

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