Students badly let down by politicians

Published: 2 December, 2010

• DEAR Camden School for Girls pupils, I am compelled to write only to congratulate you on your amazing open letter, (New Journal, November 25) to your teachers. 

It was eloquent, honest and passionate. That is why you are the best school in Camden. 

I was particularly moved by the references to your founder, Frances Mary Buss! 

She would be very proud of you. We, as women, and the gentlemen of the sixth form are used to fighting for our rights, be it fair pay or education. So keep up the good work as you really will be a force to be reckoned with both in the future or the present using the affordable university education you are fighting for. 

NAME AND ADDRESD SUPPLIED, NW1

The root of the crisis

• IT is heartening to read that so many young people in our schools and colleges are willing to make public their dissent at the present government’s reductions in public expenditure. 

Our students are right to protest. 

They have been badly let down by politicians who, despite decades of dedication to various “reform” projects have signally failed to make the banking and financial system more effective in supporting public finance, or even private enterprise. 

At the root of the present crisis is the malfunctioning of that financial system, and not of public finances. The government’s policy now is to make young people pay for that malfunction. 

We owe our students a better prospect.

JAN TOPOROWSKI
Reader in Economics
The School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London