Learn a lesson

In scenes reminiscent of the brutal industrial disputes of the 1970s, striking lecturers stormed a classroom in Sussex University and started a violent affray with students attending the lecture.

Of course lecturers want their gold-plated, defined benefit pensions to continue but they live in a country where the private sector had to change years ago and others have no works pension at all.

We had no support from the groves of academe when we had to change and most of us didn’t have the job security to strike so it’s time lecturers left their ivory towers for the real world. (REV DR) JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place, St Andrews