A degree of disgrace

FROM the start of the pandemic, thousands of students across Britain have had miserable university experiences.

They have forked out a fortune in fees and rent, and suffered many privations, for a second-rate educational experience.

So it is disgraceful that their classes are again being disrupted because of a strike by hard-Left lecturers.

These public sector ideologues demand better pay and pensions. Yet the generous retirement packages they are entitled to would make King Midas blush.

Scandalously, militants are bullying students to boycott campuses in solidarity. Yet that harms coursework which can be life-defining: Opening the door to a dream job… or cruelly slamming it shut.

It is inexcusable that students have become collateral damage in the union dinosaurs’ doctrinaire struggle.