Is the first year of a degree a waste of time?
The government is lifting the cap on university tuition fees to £9,000 by 2012. Will it increase demand for shorter, cheaper courses?
Few people forget their first days at university… The tentative introduction to the fellow fresher next door, hopelessly trying to navigate around a bewildering campus and wondering why everyone else seems more intelligent.
But how many would remember anything about their course during the first year? …