WITHOUT DEGREES
S1R,—The Advisory Centre for Education are naive if they suppose that those who failed to graduate will be the best source of accurate information about the reasons for the present high failure rate.
High failure rate is not confined to the universities, but is found in any training course (e.g. nursing) that is long and exacting, calling for some personal sacrifiand, application. .
Selection procedures can sort out those potentially intelligent enough to pass examinations; but it would need a crystal ball to determine which of them really are going to keep their nose to the grindstone, year after year.
ACE would do better to inquire why so many are these days so easily distracted, so lacking in concentration and application, that they cannot scrape past even stage one of their career, before implying that they failed through lack of 'help' (undefined).
ELIZABETH GUNDREY do South London Hospital for Women, SW4
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